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.
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.
- In Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides, open a file.
- At the top, click File
Share
Publish to web.
- Choose a publishing option:
- Spreadsheet: Publish the entire spreadsheet or individual sheets. You can also choose a publishing format.
- Tip: You can review "Published content & settings" anytime to check and uncheck tabs you would like users to have access to when you publish to web.
- Presentation: Choose how quickly to advance the slides.
- Spreadsheet: Publish the entire spreadsheet or individual sheets. You can also choose a publishing format.
- Click Publish.
- 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.
- On your computer, go to drive.google.com.
- On the left, click Shared drives
double-click one of your shared drives.
- At the top, next to the name of your shared drive, click the Down arrow
Shared drive settings.
- Next to “Sharing with non-members,” click Edit.
- Click “Non-member of this shared drive can be given access to files in this shared drive.”
- Click Apply.
- Follow the steps to 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.