If you're an administrator, learn how to control who can publish documents to the web.

Important: If you have an account through work or school, your administrator can limit who can view a published file.

Be careful when publishing private or sensitive info.

Depending on your account’s settings, publishing a file makes it visible to everyone on the web, everyone in your organization, or a group of people in your organization.

You can give edit access to people who need to edit or comment on the file.

If you need many people to view a file at once, publish it and create a link to share to viewers.

To share and collaborate on a file with a very wide audience: Publish the file Share & collaborate on a file with many peopleĪt 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, only the owner and some users with editing permissions can edit the file.

People who aren't signed in to a Google Account show up as anonymous animals in your file. Paste the link in an email or any place you want to share it.To decide what role people will have, select Viewer, Commenter, or Editor.Under “General access” click the Down arrow.

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