Share files from Google Drive

Y'all tin share the files and folders that you store in Google Drive with anyone.

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

Stride i: Find the file you lot want to share

Share a single file

Choose how you desire to share a file:

  1. On your Android device, open the app for Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, or Slides.
  2. Next to the file's name, tap More More.
  3. Tap Share.

Share multiple files

  • To share multiple files from your Android phone or tablet, add together files to a folder and share the unabridged folder.
  • You tin can too share multiple files from drive.google.com on your computer.

Send and share Google Forms

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

Specific people

  1. Under "Share with people," enter the email address you lot want to share with.
  2. To decide what people can do with your file when y'all share it, at the bottom, tap the Downwardly arrow Down.
  3. If you don't want to send an e-mail to people, tapAdvanced and uncheck the Notify people box. If you lot notify people, each email address you enter volition be included in the email.
  4. TapDone.

Anyone with a link to the file

Share a file or folder publicly

Share & collaborate on a file with many people

At any time, a Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides file can only be edited on up to 100 open tabs or devices. If there are more than 100 instances of the file open up, only the possessor and some users with editing permissions tin 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 information technology and create a link to share to viewers. You can requite edit access to people who demand 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 organization. Be careful when publishing individual or sensitive info.
    • Important: If you have an account through piece of work or schoolhouse, your administrator can limit who can view a published file. If you lot're an administrator, learn how to control who tin publish documents to the web.
  • To remove a file from the web, you lot must finish publishing it. Learn how to terminate publishing a file.
  • To stop 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 be viewed by a large amount of users. Learn how to embed documents on a site.
  • If yous conceptualize high traffic to your site, first publish your document in Google Docs, Sheets or Slides, so embed the published URL into Google Sites. Learn how to publish a file.

Collect feedback with Google Forms

  • If you demand to get together a lot of data, create a Google Class. Responses volition be recorded in a Google Sheet. Give edit access merely to people who need to piece of work with the responses. To let more than than 100 people view the responses, publish the spreadsheet to the web and create a link to share with viewers. Acquire how to publish a file.

Fix problems with documents shared with many people

If your document is shared with many people and information technology'due south crashing or non updating speedily, try these troubleshooting tips:

  • Instead of allowing people to comment on a certificate or spreadsheet, create a Google Course to collect feedback. Learn how to create a Google Form.
  • If y'all're making a copy of a document, don't include resolved comments and suggestions. Acquire how to make a re-create.
  • Delete older data or motility information into a new document.
  • Ask viewers to close the document when they aren't using it.
  • Include but the most of import 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 view, comment, or edit

When you 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 make comments and suggestions, merely can't change or share the file with others.
  • Editor: People tin make changes, accept or decline suggestions, and share the file with others.

Modify who your link is shared with

When you share a link to a file, yous control how widely the file is shared. These options depend on if your Google Business relationship is through piece of work, school, 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 employ your file, without signing in to their Google Account.
  • Restricted: Merely people you share the file with will be able to use it.

Related articles

  • Make Google Docs, Sheets, Slides & Forms public
  • Cease or modify how a file is shared
  • Transfer file ownership
  • Share folders in Google Drive
  • Find files shared with you

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