Share files from Google Drive

You tin can share the files and folders that y'all shop in Google Bulldoze with anyone.

When you share from Google Drive, yous can control whether people can edit, comment on, or but view the file. When you share content from Google Drive, the Google Drive program policies utilise.

Step 1: Find the file you want to share

Share a single file

  1. On a computer, get to Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, or Slides.
  2. Click the file yous 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 can use your file

Share with specific people

Share a link to the file

Y'all can ship other people a link to your file so anyone with the link tin can use it. When you share a link to a file, your name and your email will be visible as the owner of the file.

  1. Select the file you desire to share.
  2. Click Share or Share Shareand thenGet link.
  3. Under "Get Link", click the Downwards arrow Down.
  4. Choose who to share the file with.
  1. To make up one's mind what people can do with your file when you lot share it, select Viewer, Commenter, or Editor.
    • Learn more well-nigh how others view, comment, or edit files.
  2. Click Copy linkand thenWashed.
  3. Copy and paste the link in an e-mail or any place you desire to share information technology.
  1. Select the file you desire to share.
  2. Click Share or Share Shareand thenGet link.
  3. Nether "Get Link," click Change to anyone with link.
  4. To decide what people can practice with your public link when you share it, selectViewer,Commenter, orEditor.
  5. Click Done.
  6. Copy and paste the link in an email or whatever place yous desire to share it.

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Share & collaborate on a file with many people

At any fourth dimension, a Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides file tin can only exist edited on up to 100 open tabs or devices. If there 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 yous need many people to view a file at once, publish it and create a link to share to viewers. You can give edit access 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 group of people in your organisation. Be careful when publishing individual or sensitive info.
    • Important: If y'all have an account through 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 web.
  • To remove a file from the web, you must finish publishing it. Learn how to stop publishing a file.
  • To stop 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.  Yous can embed documents, spreadsheets, and presentations on the site, which tin can be viewed by a large amount of users. Larn how to embed documents on a site.
  • If you anticipate high traffic to your site, starting time publish your certificate 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 need to get together a lot of data, create a Google Course. Responses will exist recorded in a Google Sheet. 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.

Prepare problems with documents shared with many people

If your document is shared with many people and information technology'south crashing or non 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 Form.
  • If you're making a copy of a certificate, don't include resolved comments and suggestions. Learn how to make a re-create.
  • Delete older data or move data into a new document.
  • Ask viewers to shut the document when they aren't using it.
  • Include simply 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 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 you share a file with someone, y'all tin choose what they can do with information technology.

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

Change who your link is shared with

When you share a link to a file, you command how widely the file is shared. These options depend on if your Google Account is through piece of 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 Account.
  • Restricted: But people you share the file with will be able to employ information technology.

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  • Transfer file ownership
  • Share folders in Google Drive
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