Share files from Google Drive

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

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

Step 1: Detect the file you lot want to share

Share a single file

  1. On a calculator, go to Google Drive, 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

Step 2: Choose who to share with & how they tin utilize 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 noun and your e-mail will exist visible as the owner of the file.

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

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Share & interact on a file with many people

At whatever time, a Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides file tin can just be edited on up to 100 open tabs or devices. If in that location are more than 100 instances of the file open, only the owner and some users with editing permissions can edit the file.

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

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. Y'all tin can give edit access to people who need to edit or annotate on the file. Learn how to publish a file.
  • Depending on your account'due south settings, publishing a file makes information technology visible to everyone on the web, everyone in your organization, or a grouping of people in your organization. Be careful when publishing private or sensitive info.
    • Important: If yous have an account through work or school, your administrator tin can limit who can view a published file. If you lot're an ambassador, acquire how to control who can publish documents to the web.
  • To remove a file from the web, you must cease publishing it. Learn how to stop publishing a file.
  • To finish sharing a file with collaborators, learn how to modify sharing permissions.

Create a Google Site

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

Collect feedback with Google Forms

  • If you need to gather a lot of information, create a Google Course. Responses will be recorded in a Google Canvass. Give edit access only to people who demand to work with the responses. To let more 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.

Fix problems with documents shared with many people

If your certificate is shared with many people and it's crashing or not updating rapidly, effort these troubleshooting tips:

  • Instead of allowing people to annotate on a document or spreadsheet, create a Google Form to collect feedback. Acquire how to create a Google Course.
  • If you're making a copy of a document, don't include resolved comments and suggestions. Larn how to make a copy.
  • Delete older data or move data into a new document.
  • Inquire viewers to close the document when they aren't using information technology.
  • Include merely the most important information in a published document. Shorter documents load faster.
  • Reduce the corporeality of people with edit access to a document.
  • If collecting information from multiple documents, create a new, view-but 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 share a file with someone, you tin can cull what they tin can do with information technology.

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

Modify 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 Business relationship is through work, school, or Gmail.

  • Public: Anyone can search on Google and go access to your file, without signing in to their Google Account.
  • Anyone with the link: Anyone who has the link can apply your file, without signing in to their Google Account.
  • Restricted: Only people you share the file with will be able to use 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 Drive
  • Discover files shared with yous

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