How to Share a Google Docs and Sheets File

 

How to Share a Google Docs File

Fire up your browser, head to Google Docs, and then open the file you want to share. Click File > Publish to the Web.

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Next, click “Publish” to make your file visible on the Internet.

Click “OK” to confirm you want to publish the file to the web.

You can now copy the link (Ctrl+C on Windows/Chrome OS or Cmd+C on macOS), embed it on your website, or share it via Gmail, Facebook, or Twitter.

If you don’t want the page to update automatically whenever you make changes to it, click the arrow next to “Published Content and Settings.” Then, click the box next to “Automatically Republish When Changes Are Made” to uncheck it.

When you want to remove the file from the web, head back to File > Publish to the Web. Expand “Published Content and Settings,” and then click “Stop Publishing.”

How to Share a Google Sheets File

Head to the Google Sheets website, open the file you want to share, and then click File > Publish to the Web.

If you don’t want to share the entire document, you can choose a single sheet to publish online. To do this, click “Entire Document,” and then select the sheet from the drop-down menu.

Click “Publish.”

Click “OK” to confirm you want to publish the file to the web.

Again, you can copy the link (Ctrl+C on Windows/Chrome OS or Cmd+C on macOS), embed it on your website, or share it via Gmail, Facebook, or Twitter.

If you don’t want the page to update automatically whenever you make changes to it, click “Published Content and Settings,” and then uncheck the box next to “Automatically Republish When Changes Are Made.”

To stop publishing the page altogether, head back to File > Publish to the Web, and then click “Stop Publishing.”