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Share documents, spreadsheets, or presentations with individuals or large groups of people. You can share with people inside or outside your organization. People can make changes at the same time, and you can see changes as they happen.
You can share with people who aren't on Google Workspace, too.
Add comments and replies in Docs, Sheets, or Slides
Suggest edits in Docs
Chat with people directly in Docs, Sheets, or Slides
Collaborate on documents and spreadsheets in a Gmail chat space
Share files in Drive, Docs, Sheets, or Slides
Note: Sharing options vary by group size:
Up to 100: You can let up to 100 people with view, edit, or comment permissions work on a Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides file at the same time.
100 or more: When 100 people or more are accessing a file, only the owner and some users with editing permissions can edit the file. To let more than 100 people view or edit your file at the same time, publish it as a web page instead.
Share a file or folder with specific people:
Select the file you want to share.
Click Share or Share
.
Under Share with people and groups,enter the email address you want to share with.
Note: If visitor sharing is on for your organization, you can invite someone who doesn't have a Google Accountto collaborate on your Google Drive files and folders. See Share documents with visitors.
To change what people can do to your file, on the right, click the Down arrow Viewer, Commenter, or Editor.
Choose to notify people:
If you want to notify people that you shared a file with them, check the Notify people box. If you notify people, each email address you enter will be included in the email.
If you don't want to notify people, uncheck the Notify people box.
Click Share or Send.
Share a link to a file or folder:
In Drive, right-click the file or folder you want to share and select Share
.
In Docs, Sheets, or Slides, at the top, click Share.
Note:You can only share files that you own or have edit access to.
(Optional) To specify what people can do with your file when you share it, under your organization name, click Change:
To change the permission, at right, click the Down arrow and select Viewer, Commenter, or Editor.
To allow sharing the link outside of your organization, next to your organization name, click the Down arrowPublic.
Note:If you don't see this option, contact your administrator.
Click Copy link.
Click Done.
Paste the link in an email, on a website, or wherever you need to share it.
Unshare files in Drive, Docs, Sheets, or Slides
Stop sharing a file or folder you own:
Open the homescreen for Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Sheets, or Google Slides.
Select a file or folder.
Click Share or Share
.
Find the person you want to stop sharing with.
To the right of their name, click the Down arrow
Remove.
To save changes, click Save.
Remove a link to a file or folder you own:
Open the homescreen for Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Sheets, or Google Slides.
Open or select a file or folder.
Click Share or Share
Get link,
Under Get Link, click the Down arrow
.
SelectRestricted.
Click Done.
Add comments and replies in Docs, Sheets, or Slides
In Docs, Sheets, or Slides, select the text you'd like to comment on.
Click Add comment
.
Enter your comment in the box.
(Optional) To direct your task or comment to a specific person, enter a plus sign (+) followed by their email address. You can add as many people as you want.Each person will get an email with your comment and a link to the file.
(Optional) To assign the comment to a specific person, check the Assign to box.
Click Comment or Assign.
Note: If a file reaches the maximum number of comments, you can make a copy of the file without copying over any comments.
Suggest edits in Docs
Note: This feature is only available in Google Docs.
In Docs, you can also propose changes directly in the document without editing the text by suggesting an edit. Your suggestions wont change the original text until the document owner approves them. You must have edit or comment access to the document to suggest changes.
In the top corner, make sure youre in Suggestingmode, which may also appear as
.
To suggest an edit, simply begin typing where you think the edit should be made in the document. Your suggestions appear in a new color, and text you mark to delete or replace is crossed out (but not actually deleted until the document owner approves the suggestion).
The documents owner will receive an email with your suggestions. When they click any suggestion, they can Accept
or Reject
it.
Chat with people directly in Docs, Sheets, or Slides
You can collaborate within documents, spreadsheets, or presentations over chat, too. If more than one person has your file open, just click Show chat
to open a group chat. You can get instant feedback without ever leaving your file.
Collaborate on documents and spreadsheets in a Gmail chat space
Note: This feature is only available in Google Docs and Google Sheets.
You can collaborate on shared Docs and Sheets files with team members directly in a Gmail chat space. The document or spreadsheet opens in the chat window, next to the conversation, letting you chat while collaborating on the file together.
When you collaborate with your team members, you can edit, format, share, and rename files without leaving Gmail. To work with comments or use other features from Docs or Sheets, open the file in a new tab.
You can collaborate on shared Google Docs and Sheets with people directly in a space. The document or spreadsheet opens in the chat window, next to the conversation, where you can chat while you collaborate on the file together.
When you collaborate on a file with people in a space, you can edit, format, share, and rename it without leaving Gmail or Google Chat. To work with comments or use other features from Docs or Sheets, open the file in a new tab.
Tip: You can also collaborate on existing Google Docs and Sheets in 1:1 messages.
Open Google Chat or your Gmail account.
Select a space. Expand the space to full screen.
To open an already shared document, point to it in the chat then click Open in chat . The document opens to the right where you can make edits directly without changing tabs.
To create a shared document within a space, in the reply area of the conversation tab, click Create new document
.
At the top right, click Close .
Optional: To open the document in a new browser tab, at the top right of the conversation preview, click Open in a new tab
.
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