Share files from Google Bulldoze

You tin share the files and folders that you store in Google Drive with anyone.

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

Step 1: Notice the file you want to share

Share a single file

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

Share multiple files

Send & share Google Forms

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

Share with specific people

Share a link to the file

You can send other people a link to your file so anyone with the link can use information technology. When you share a link to a file, your proper name and your e-mail will exist visible every bit the owner of the file.

  1. Select the file you want to share.
  2. Click Share or Share Shareand thenGo link.
  3. Nether "Get Link", click the Down arrow Down.
  4. Choose who to share the file with.
  1. To decide what people can do with your file when you lot share information technology, select Viewer, Commenter, or Editor.
    • Learn more about how others view, comment, or edit files.
  2. Click Re-create linkand thenDone.
  3. Copy and paste the link in an e-mail or any place you want to share it.
  1. Select the file yous desire to share.
  2. Click Share or Share Shareand thenGet link.
  3. Under "Get Link," click Alter to anyone with link.
  4. To decide what people tin can do with your public link when yous share it, selectViewer,Commenter, orEditor.
  5. Click Washed.
  6. Copy and paste the link in an e-mail or any place you want to share it.

People who aren't signed in to a Google Account show up equally bearding animals in your file.Learn more well-nigh anonymous animals.

Share & interact on a file with many people

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

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

Publish the file

  • If yous need many people to view a file at once, publish it and create a link to share to viewers. You lot can requite edit access to people who need to edit or annotate on the file. Learn how to publish a file.
  • Depending on your account'south settings, publishing a file makes it visible to everyone on the web, anybody in your organization, or a grouping of people in your arrangement. Be conscientious when publishing private or sensitive info.
    • Of import: If you take an business relationship through work or school, your ambassador can limit who can view a published file. If you're an administrator, learn how to control who can publish documents to the web.
  • To remove a file from the web, you lot must stop publishing it. Acquire how to cease 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 information with many people.  Y'all tin embed documents, spreadsheets, and presentations on the site, which can be viewed by a large amount of users. Learn how to embed documents on a site.
  • If you anticipate high traffic to your site, commencement publish your document in Google Docs, Sheets or Slides, then embed the published URL into Google Sites. Larn how to publish a file.

Collect feedback with Google Forms

  • If you lot need to gather a lot of information, create a Google Form. Responses will exist recorded in a Google Sheet. Requite edit access simply to people who demand to work with the responses. To permit more than 100 people view the responses, publish the spreadsheet to the spider web and create a link to share with viewers. Larn how to publish a file.

Set problems with documents shared with many people

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

  • Instead of assuasive people to annotate on a document or spreadsheet, create a Google Class to collect feedback. Learn how to create a Google Form.
  • If yous're making a copy of a document, don't include resolved comments and suggestions. Learn how to make a copy.
  • Delete older information or movement data into a new document.
  • Enquire viewers to close the document when they aren't using information technology.
  • Include only the most important data in a published document. 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-only document to share with a large number of people.

Limit how a file is shared

Cull if people can view, annotate, or edit

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

  • Viewer: People can view, merely can't modify or share the file with others.
  • Commenter: People can brand comments and suggestions, but tin't alter or share the file with others.
  • Editor: People can make changes, accept or pass up suggestions, and share the file with others.

Change who your link is shared with

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

  • Public: Anyone tin search on Google and go admission 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 lot share the file with volition be able to use it.

Related articles

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

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