Share files from Google Drive

Yous can share the files and folders that y'all store in Google Bulldoze with anyone.

When you lot share from Google Drive, you tin control whether people can edit, comment on, or only view the file. When you share content from Google Drive, the Google Drive plan policies apply.

Step i: Find the file yous want to share

Share a unmarried file

  1. On a computer, go to Google Bulldoze, Docs, Sheets, or Slides.
  2. Click the file you want to share.
  3. Click Share or Share Share.

Share multiple files

Ship & share Google Forms

Pace ii: Choose who to share with & how they tin use your file

Share with specific people

Share a link to the file

You can transport other people a link to your file so anyone with the link can apply it. When yous share a link to a file, your name and your email volition be visible every bit the owner of the file.

  1. Select the file you want to share.
  2. Click Share or Share Shareand thenBecome link.
  3. Nether "Get Link", click the Down arrow Down.
  4. Choose who to share the file with.
  1. To decide what people can exercise with your file when you share information technology, select Viewer, Commenter, or Editor.
    • Learn more about how others view, comment, or edit files.
  2. Click Copy linkand thenDone.
  3. Copy and paste the link in an electronic mail or whatever place you want to share it.
  1. Select the file y'all want to share.
  2. Click Share or Share Shareand thenGet link.
  3. Nether "Get Link," click Change to anyone with link.
  4. To decide what people can exercise with your public link when you share it, selectViewer,Commenter, orEditor.
  5. Click Done.
  6. Copy and paste the link in an email or whatever identify you want to share it.

People who aren't signed in to a Google Account bear witness up equally bearding animals in your file.Acquire more than about anonymous animals.

Share & collaborate on a file with many people

At any time, a Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides file can simply exist edited on up to 100 open tabs or devices. If there are more than than 100 instances of the file open, just the possessor and some users with editing permissions can edit the file.

To share and interact on a file with a very broad audition:

Publish the file

  • If you need many people to view a file at once, publish information technology and create a link to share to viewers. You tin can give edit access to people who need to edit or comment on the file. Learn how to publish a file.
  • Depending on your account's settings, publishing a file makes it visible to everyone on the web, anybody in your arrangement, or a grouping of people in your organization. Be careful when publishing private or sensitive info.
    • Of import: If you have an account through work or school, your administrator tin limit who can view a published file. If you're an administrator, larn how to control who can publish documents to the spider web.
  • To remove a file from the spider web, you lot must finish publishing it. Learn how to stop publishing a file.
  • To stop sharing a file with collaborators, learn how to change sharing permissions.

Create a Google Site

  • Create a Google Site to share data with many people.  Y'all can embed documents, spreadsheets, and presentations on the site, which can be viewed by a large corporeality of users. Learn how to embed documents on a site.
  • If you anticipate high traffic to your site, commencement publish your certificate in Google Docs, Sheets or Slides, and then embed the published URL into Google Sites. Acquire how to publish a file.

Collect feedback with Google Forms

  • If you demand to gather a lot of information, create a Google Grade. Responses will be recorded in a Google Sheet. Give edit access but to people who need to work with the responses. To permit more than 100 people view the responses, publish the spreadsheet to the web and create a link to share with viewers. Acquire how to publish a file.

Fix issues with documents shared with many people

If your document is shared with many people and it's crashing or non updating rapidly, endeavour these troubleshooting tips:

  • Instead of allowing people to annotate on a document or spreadsheet, create a Google Course to collect feedback. Larn how to create a Google Form.
  • If you lot're making a copy of a certificate, don't include resolved comments and suggestions. Learn how to make a copy.
  • Delete older data or motion information into a new document.
  • Inquire viewers to shut the document when they aren't using information technology.
  • Include just the most important information in a published certificate. Shorter documents load faster.
  • Reduce the amount of people with edit access to a document.
  • If collecting information from multiple documents, create a new, view-just document to share with a large number of people.

Limit how a file is shared

Choose if people can view, comment, or edit

When you lot share a file with someone, you lot can choose what they tin practise with it.

  • Viewer: People can view, but can't alter or share the file with others.
  • Commenter: People tin can make comments and suggestions, but can't change or share the file with others.
  • Editor: People can make changes, have or refuse suggestions, and share the file with others.

Change who your link is shared with

When you share a link to a file, you command how widely the file is shared. These options depend on if your Google Account is through work, schoolhouse, or Gmail.

  • Public: Anyone tin can search on Google and become admission to your file, without signing in to their Google Account.
  • Anyone with the link: Anyone who has the link tin use your file, without signing in to their Google Account.
  • Restricted: Only people y'all share the file with will exist able to employ it.

Related articles

  • Make Google Docs, Sheets, Slides & Forms public
  • Stop or change how a file is shared
  • Transfer file ownership
  • Share folders in Google Bulldoze
  • Find files shared with you

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