Make Google Docs, Sheets, Slides & Forms public

To make a document, spreadsheet, or presentation bachelor for a large audience to see, publish the file. Later on you lot publish your file y'all can send a new URL to anyone or embed into your website.

Of import: Depending on your business relationship'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. Exist careful when publishing private or sensitive info.

Publish file

Important:

  • When you publish a chart to the spider web, people tin can see the information used to create it. Exist careful when publishing a nautical chart with private or sensitive info.
  • Whatsoever changes you make to the original document will be updated in the published version. The automatic update might have a few minutes.
  • To remove a file from the spider web, yous must terminate publishing information technology. Learn how to stop publishing a file.
  • To stop sharing a file with collaborators, larn how to change sharing permissions.
  1. In Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides, open a file.
  2. At the peak, click File and thenShare and then Publish to web.
  3. Choose a publishing selection:
    • Spreadsheet: Publish the unabridged spreadsheet or private sheets. You tin also cull a publishing format.
    • Presentation: Cull how quickly to advance the slides.
  4. Click Publish.
  5. Copy the URL and send it to anyone you'd like to see the file. Or, embed it into your website.

Publish a file from a shared bulldoze

Important: If you're using an account through work or school, your ambassador might have turned off the ability to publish a file. If you can't publish a file, contact your ambassador.

  1. On your computer, go to drive.google.com.
  2. On the left, click Shared drives and then double-click i of your shared drives.
  3. At the top, next to the name of your shared drive, click the Downward arrow Down Arrow and then Shared drive settings.
  4. Next to "Sharing with non-members," click Edit.
  5. Click "Non-fellow member of this shared drive can be given admission to files in this shared drive."
  6. Click Employ.
  7. Follow the steps to publish a file.

Turn off automatic updates

When you make changes to a published Docs or Sheets file, it will automatically publish the changes. To turn off automatic updates:

  1. Open up a file in Google Docs or Sheets that you've already published to the spider web.
  2. Click File and then  Share and then Publish to web.
  3. Click Published content & settings.
  4. Uncheck the box next to "Automatically republish when changes are made."
  • To turn automated publishing back on, check the box.

Note: Yous tin't plough off automatic updates in Google Slides.

How published files look when you lot share them

If you transport someone the URL of a published file, they'll run into a version they can't edit that looks dissimilar from yours. Hither's what others will see:

  • Documents: A version with no toolbar.
  • Spreadsheets: A version with no toolbar. People with "view" permissions tin can see charts, prison cell formatting, and the values of cells, but can't view or edit formulas.
  • Presentations: A view-only version or a version in presentation fashion with full-screen slides.

Control who can publish a file

File owners and editors tin publish files. If you're the possessor of a file and want someone else to publish the file, give them "edit" access.

If you're the possessor and don't want anyone else to publish the file:

  1. Open a file in Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides.
  2. On the top correct, clickShare.
  3. Click Settings Settings.
  4. Uncheck Editors tin can alter permissions and share.
  5. Click Done.

Embed files

You tin make a document, spreadsheet, presentation, or form available to view on an existing website by embedding it in your site or blog.

Edit embedded spreadsheets

If yous're embedding a spreadsheet, you tin show or hide parts of the spreadsheet after you publish to the spider web.

  1. Open a file in Google Sheets.
  2. At the peak, click File and then Share and then Publish to web.
  3. In the window that appears, click Embed.
  4. Click Publish.
  5. Copy the code in the text box and paste it into your site or blog.
  6. To prove or hide parts of the spreadsheet, edit the HTML on your site or blog.
  • gid=: The canvas ID.
  • range=: The rows and columns that are published to the spider web. For example, A1:B14.
  • widget=: True or false. If truthful, the canvass tab is displayed at the bottom.
  • headers=: True or false. If truthful, row numbers and cavalcade letters are displayed.
  • chrome=: True or false. If true, the title and footer are displayed.

Embed a form

  1. In Google Forms, open a form.
  2. At the summit right, click Transport.
  3. At the top of the window, click Embed.
  4. To copy the HTML that appears, click Copy.
  5. Paste the HTML into your site or blog.

Related article:

  • Embed a file in Google Sites

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