Share files from Google Bulldoze

You can share the files and folders that you shop in Google Drive with anyone.

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

Step one: Find the file you want to share

Share a single file

  1. On a reckoner, go to Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, or Slides.
  2. Click the file y'all want to share.
  3. Click Share or Share Share.

Share multiple files

Send & share Google Forms

Step 2: Choose who to share with & how they can use your file

Share with specific people

Share a link to the file

You tin can send other people a link to your file and so anyone with the link can use it. When you lot share a link to a file, your name and your electronic mail volition exist visible every bit the possessor of the file.

  1. Select the file you want to share.
  2. Click Share or Share Shareand thenGo link.
  3. Under "Go Link", click the Down arrow Down.
  4. Choose who to share the file with.
  1. To make up one's mind what people tin do with your file when yous share it, select Viewer, Commenter, or Editor.
    • Larn more than well-nigh how others view, comment, or edit files.
  2. Click Re-create linkand thenWashed.
  3. Copy and paste the link in an email or whatever identify yous want to share it.
  1. Select the file you 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 practise with your public link when you share information technology, selectViewer,Commenter, orEditor.
  5. Click Done.
  6. Copy and paste the link in an electronic mail or any place you want to share it.

People who aren't signed in to a Google Business relationship testify upwardly every bit anonymous animals in your file.Learn more virtually anonymous animals.

Share & interact on a file with many people

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

To share and interact on a file with a very wide audience:

Publish the file

  • If you demand many people to view a file at in one case, publish information technology and create a link to share to viewers. You 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 organization, or a group of people in your organisation. Be conscientious when publishing private or sensitive info.
    • Important: If you lot have an account through work or school, your administrator tin limit who can view a published file. If you're an ambassador, learn how to control who can publish documents to the web.
  • To remove a file from the web, you must stop publishing information technology. Learn how to end publishing a file.
  • To terminate sharing a file with collaborators, learn how to change sharing permissions.

Create a Google Site

  • Create a Google Site to share information with many people.  You can embed documents, spreadsheets, and presentations on the site, which can exist viewed by a large amount of users. Learn how to embed documents on a site.
  • If you anticipate high traffic to your site, first publish your document in Google Docs, Sheets or Slides, then embed the published URL into Google Sites. Learn how to publish a file.

Collect feedback with Google Forms

  • If yous need to gather a lot of information, create a Google Grade. Responses will exist recorded in a Google Sheet. Give edit access only to people who need to work with the responses. To let more than 100 people view the responses, publish the spreadsheet to the web and create a link to share with viewers. Learn how to publish a file.

Prepare problems with documents shared with many people

If your document is shared with many people and information technology's crashing or not updating quickly, try these troubleshooting tips:

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

Limit how a file is shared

Cull if people can view, comment, or edit

When you share a file with someone, yous tin choose what they can do with information technology.

  • Viewer: People tin view, but can't alter or share the file with others.
  • Commenter: People tin make comments and suggestions, simply can't alter or share the file with others.
  • Editor: People can brand changes, take or reject suggestions, and share the file with others.

Change who your link is shared with

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

  • Public: Anyone can search on Google and get access to your file, without signing in to their Google Business relationship.
  • Anyone with the link: Anyone who has the link can use your file, without signing in to their Google Account.
  • Restricted: Only people you share the file with will be able to use it.

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