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 Bulldoze, 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 employ.

Step i: Discover the file you lot want to share

Share a unmarried 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 2: Choose who to share with & how they tin employ your file

Share with specific people

Share a link to the file

Yous can transport 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 name and your email 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 Downwards pointer Down.
  4. Choose who to share the file with.
  1. To decide what people can practise with your file when you share it, select Viewer, Commenter, or Editor.
    • Learn more most how others view, comment, or edit files.
  2. Click Copy linkand thenDone.
  3. Copy and paste the link in an e-mail or any place you want to share it.
  1. Select the file you want to share.
  2. Click Share or Share Shareand thenBecome link.
  3. Under "Get Link," click Modify to anyone with link.
  4. To decide what people can do 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 show upward as anonymous animals in your file.Acquire more nearly anonymous animals.

Share & collaborate on a file with many people

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

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

Publish the file

  • If you demand many people to view a file at once, publish it and create a link to share to viewers. You lot can give edit access to people who need to edit or comment on the file. Larn how to publish a file.
  • Depending on your account'south settings, publishing a file makes it visible to everyone on the spider web, everyone in your organization, or a group of people in your arrangement. Exist conscientious when publishing private or sensitive info.
    • Important: If you have an account through piece of work or school, your administrator can limit who can view a published file. If you're an administrator, acquire how to control who can publish documents to the spider web.
  • To remove a file from the web, you must stop publishing it. Acquire how to stop publishing a file.
  • To stop sharing a file with collaborators, learn how to alter 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 big 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, and then embed the published URL into Google Sites. Acquire how to publish a file.

Collect feedback with Google Forms

  • If you need to get together a lot of information, create a Google Grade. Responses will be recorded in a Google Canvass. Give edit admission just to people who need to piece of work with the responses. To let more 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.

Ready bug with documents shared with many people

If your document is shared with many people and it'due south crashing or not updating apace, attempt these troubleshooting tips:

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

Limit how a file is shared

Choose if people tin can view, comment, or edit

When y'all share a file with someone, you can choose what they can do with it.

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

Change who your link is shared with

When yous 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, schoolhouse, or Gmail.

  • Public: Anyone tin can search on Google and get access 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 Account.
  • Restricted: Only people you share the file with will be able to utilise information technology.

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
  • Find files shared with you

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