Sharing Google Docs

Freegle uses Google Docs and Sheets quite a bit when working on drafts of procedures, policies and so on. There are several ways to share these documents, and different methods have their advantages. This page describes those methods.

Read-only sharing

To keep things working for everyone, share the basic read-only version of a document by default.

This works whether someone wants to:

1. View the document - this view is supported by almost all browsers.
2. Edit the document - this view has an edit link at the bottom.

To share read-only, follow the screenshots below.

In the screenshot above, click the Sharing menu on the right side of the page, then click "Publish to the Web".

Once you've confirmed you want to publish the document to the web, you'll see a sharing details window like the one above. Note the URL shown there - that's the best one to share.

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