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To make a document, spreadsheet, or presentation available for a large audience to see, publish the file. After you publish your file you can send a new URL to anyone or embed into your website.

Important: Based on your account’s settings, when you publish a file, you can make it visible to everyone on the web, everyone in your organization, or a group of people in your organization. Be careful when publishing private or sensitive info.

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Publish file​

Important:

  • When you publish a chart to the web, people can see the data used to create it. Be careful when publishing a chart with private or sensitive info.
  • Any changes you make to the original document will be updated in the published version. The automatic update might take a few minutes.
  • To remove a file from the web, you must stop publishing it. Learn how to stop publishing a file.
  • To stop sharing a file with collaborators, learn how to change sharing permissions.
  1. In Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides, open a file.
  2. At the top, click File** **and thenShare and then Publish to web.
  3. Choose a publishing option:
    • Spreadsheet: Publish the entire spreadsheet or individual sheets. You can also choose a publishing format.
    • Presentation: Choose 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 drive​

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

  1. On your computer, go to drive.google.com.
  2. On the left, click Shared drives and then double-click one of your shared drives.
  3. At the top, next to the name of your shared drive, click the Down arrow Down Arrowand thenShared drive settings.
  4. Next to “Sharing with non-members,” click Edit.
  5. Click “Non-member of this shared drive can be given access to files in this shared drive.”
  6. Click Apply.
  7. Follow the steps to publish a file.

[Turn off automatic updates]

[Stop publishing a file]

[How published files look when you share them]

[Control who can publish a file]

[Embed files]​

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

[Embed a document, spreadsheet, or presentation]

[Edit embedded spreadsheets]

[Embed a form]

Tip: Learn more about changes to third-party cookie requirements in Google Drive.

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