Share files from Google Drive

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

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

Stride i: Find the file yous want to share

Share a single file

Choose how y'all want to share a file:

  1. On your Android device, open the app for Google Bulldoze, Docs, Sheets, or Slides.
  2. Next to the file's proper name, tap More than 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 folder.
  • You tin can also share multiple files from drive.google.com on your figurer.

Transport and share Google Forms

Footstep two: Choose who to share with & how they can utilize your file

Specific people

  1. Under "Share with people," enter the email address you desire to share with.
  2. To decide what people can practise with your file when yous share it, at the lesser, tap the Downwards arrow Down.
  3. If you don't want to send an email to people, tapAdvanced and uncheck the Notify people box. If you notify people, each email accost you enter will be included in the email.
  4. TapDone.

Anyone with a link to the file

Share a file or binder publicly

Share & interact on a file with many people

At whatsoever time, a Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides file tin merely be edited on up to 100 open tabs or devices. If there are more than 100 instances of the file open, simply 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 demand many people to view a file at once, publish it and create a link to share to viewers. You can requite edit admission to people who demand to edit or comment on the file. Acquire how to publish a file.
  • Depending on your account's settings, publishing a file makes information technology visible to everyone on the spider web, anybody in your organization, or a group of people in your system. Exist careful when publishing private or sensitive info.
    • Important: If y'all have an account through work or school, your ambassador can 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, you must end publishing it. Larn how to end publishing a file.
  • To stop sharing a file with collaborators, learn how to change sharing permissions.

Create a Google Site

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

Collect feedback with Google Forms

  • If you need to assemble a lot of information, create a Google Form. Responses will exist recorded in a Google Sheet. Give edit access but to people who demand to work with the responses. To allow 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.

Fix issues with documents shared with many people

If your document is shared with many people and information technology's crashing or not updating quickly, try these troubleshooting tips:

  • Instead of allowing people to comment on a document or spreadsheet, create a Google Class 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. Learn how to make a copy.
  • Delete older information or movement information into a new document.
  • Ask viewers to close 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-only document to share with a large number of people.

Limit how a file is shared

Choose if people tin view, comment, or edit

When y'all share a file with someone, you lot tin can choose what they can do with information technology.

  • Viewer: People tin view, only can't change or share the file with others.
  • Commenter: People can make comments and suggestions, but can't alter or share the file with others.
  • Editor: People can brand changes, take or refuse suggestions, and share the file with others.

Change 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 tin 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: Merely people you share the file with will be able to utilize it.

Related manufactures

  • Make Google Docs, Sheets, Slides & Forms public
  • Stop or change how a file is shared
  • Transfer file ownership
  • Share folders in Google Bulldoze
  • Detect files shared with y'all

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