Share files from Google Drive

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

When you lot share from Google Bulldoze, you can control whether people can edit, annotate on, or only view the file. When yous share content from Google Drive, the Google Drive programme policies apply.

Stride 1: Find the file you lot desire to share

Share a unmarried file

Cull how you want to share a file:

  1. On your Android device, open the app for Google Bulldoze, Docs, Sheets, or Slides.
  2. Side by side to the file'southward name, tap More More.
  3. Tap Share.

Share multiple files

  • To share multiple files from your Android phone or tablet, add files to a folder and share the entire binder.
  • Y'all can also share multiple files from drive.google.com on your figurer.

Send and share Google Forms

Step 2: Choose who to share with & how they tin can use your file

Specific people

  1. Under "Share with people," enter the e-mail address you want to share with.
  2. To make up one's mind what people can exercise with your file when yous share it, at the bottom, tap the Downwards arrow Down.
  3. If you don't desire to transport an electronic mail to people, tapAdvanced and uncheck the Notify people box. If you notify people, each email address you enter will exist included in the e-mail.
  4. TapWashed.

Anyone with a link to the file

Share a file or folder publicly

Share & collaborate on a file with many people

At whatsoever time, a Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides file can but be edited on upwards to 100 open up tabs or devices. If there are more than than 100 instances of the file open up, merely the possessor 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 one time, publish information technology and create a link to share to viewers. You can give edit access to people who need to edit or comment on the file. Acquire how to publish a file.
  • Depending on your account's settings, publishing a file makes it visible to anybody on the web, everyone in your organization, or a group of people in your organization. Exist careful when publishing private or sensitive info.
    • Important: If you lot have an business relationship through work or school, your administrator tin limit who can view a published file. If you're an administrator, learn how to control who tin can publish documents to the web.
  • To remove a file from the spider web, you lot must cease publishing it. Learn how to terminate publishing a file.
  • To stop sharing a file with collaborators, acquire how to change sharing permissions.

Create a Google Site

  • Create a Google Site to share information with many people.  You tin can embed documents, spreadsheets, and presentations on the site, which can be viewed past a large 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 need to gather a lot of information, create a Google Form. Responses will be recorded in a Google Sheet. Give edit access simply to people who demand 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.

Ready issues with documents shared with many people

If your document is shared with many people and information technology's crashing or not updating speedily, attempt 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 Class.
  • If you're making a re-create of a document, don't include resolved comments and suggestions. Learn how to brand a copy.
  • Delete older information or move data into a new document.
  • Inquire viewers to shut the document when they aren't using it.
  • Include only the most important information 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-just document to share with a large number of people.

Limit how a file is shared

Choose if people tin view, comment, or edit

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

  • Viewer: People tin can view, but can't change 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 pass up suggestions, and share the file with others.

Alter who your link is shared with

When y'all share a link to a file, yous control how widely the file is shared. These options depend on if your Google Account is through work, schoolhouse, or Gmail.

  • Public: Anyone can search on Google and get admission to your file, without signing in to their Google Business relationship.
  • Anyone with the link: Anyone who has the link tin can use your file, without signing in to their Google Account.
  • Restricted: Only people you share the file with volition exist able to use it.

Related articles

  • Brand 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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