Share files from Google Drive

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

When you share from Google Drive, y'all tin command whether people can edit, comment on, or simply view the file. When you share content from Google Drive, the Google Drive program policies apply.

Footstep 1: Find the file you desire 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

Stride two: Cull who to share with & how they can use your file

Share with specific people

Share a link to the file

You lot can send other people a link to your file and so anyone with the link can apply information technology. When you share a link to a file, your name and your electronic mail will exist visible as the owner of the file.

  1. Select the file you want to share.
  2. Click Share or Share Shareand thenGet link.
  3. Under "Get Link", click the Downwardly pointer Down.
  4. Choose who to share the file with.
  1. To decide what people can do with your file when you lot share it, 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 e-mail or whatever place you want to share it.
  1. Select the file you desire to share.
  2. Click Share or Share Shareand thenBecome link.
  3. Under "Get Link," click Change to anyone with link.
  4. To decide what people tin do with your public link when you share it, selectViewer,Commenter, orEditor.
  5. Click Washed.
  6. Copy and paste the link in an email or any place you desire to share information technology.

People who aren't signed in to a Google Account show up as anonymous animals in your file.Larn more than virtually anonymous animals.

Share & interact on a file with many people

At any time, a Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides file can only be edited on upwardly to 100 open tabs or devices. If at that place are more than 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 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 requite edit admission to people who need to edit or comment on the file. Learn how to publish a file.
  • Depending on your account'south settings, publishing a file makes it visible to anybody 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 you have an business relationship through piece of work or school, your administrator tin limit who can view a published file. If you're an administrator, learn how to control who can publish documents to the spider web.
  • To remove a file from the web, y'all must terminate publishing it. Larn how to finish publishing a file.
  • To cease sharing a file with collaborators, larn how to modify 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 exist viewed past a large amount of users. Learn how to embed documents on a site.
  • If you anticipate high traffic to your site, showtime publish your document in Google Docs, Sheets or Slides, then embed the published URL into Google Sites. Acquire how to publish a file.

Collect feedback with Google Forms

  • If yous need to gather a lot of information, create a Google Form. Responses will be recorded in a Google Canvass. Requite edit access merely to people who need to piece of 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.

Set up problems with documents shared with many people

If your document is shared with many people and it'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 Course.
  • If you're making a copy of a document, don't include resolved comments and suggestions. Acquire how to make a re-create.
  • Delete older information or movement data into a new document.
  • Inquire viewers to shut the certificate when they aren't using it.
  • Include only 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 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, annotate, or edit

When you share a file with someone, yous can cull what they tin can do with it.

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

Change who your link is shared with

When y'all 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 go admission to your file, without signing in to their Google Account.
  • Anyone with the link: Anyone who has the link can use your file, without signing in to their Google Business relationship.
  • Restricted: Just people you share the file with will be able to use it.

Related manufactures

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

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