Share files from Google Drive

You can share the files and folders that you store 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 ane: Find the file y'all want to share

Share a single file

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

Share multiple files

Send & share Google Forms

Step two: Choose who to share with & how they can apply 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 tin use it. When you share a link to a file, your name and your email volition be visible as the possessor of the file.

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

People who aren't signed in to a Google Account show upward equally bearding animals in your file.Learn more 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 upward to 100 open tabs or devices. If there are more 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 it and create a link to share to viewers. You tin give edit admission to people who need to edit or comment on the file. Larn how to publish a file.
  • Depending on your account's settings, publishing a file makes it visible to everyone on the web, everyone in your organization, or a grouping of people in your arrangement. Be conscientious when publishing individual or sensitive info.
    • Important: If you lot take an account through work or school, your administrator can limit who tin view a published file. If yous're an administrator, learn how to control who can publish documents to the web.
  • To remove a file from the web, you must end publishing information technology. Learn 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 data with many people.  You lot can embed documents, spreadsheets, and presentations on the site, which tin can exist viewed by a big amount of users. Learn how to embed documents on a site.
  • If you anticipate loftier 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 you demand to gather a lot of information, create a Google Form. Responses will be recorded in a Google Canvas. 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.

Fix problems with documents shared with many people

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

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

Limit how a file is shared

Choose if people can view, comment, or edit

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

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

Alter who your link is shared with

When you lot share a link to a file, y'all control how widely the file is shared. These options depend on if your Google Business relationship is through work, schoolhouse, 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 tin can employ your file, without signing in to their Google Account.
  • Restricted: But people you share the file with will be able to use it.

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  • Share folders in Google Drive
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