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Google Document URL tricks for sharing and forcing copies

Modified on: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 8:23 AM
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Aliases: Google Drive, Google doc

The following is from the Learning in Hand with Tony Vincent site.

https://learninginhand.com/blog/google-document-url-tricks

G Suite apps include Google Documents, Sheets, Slides, and Drawings. These apps can provide shareable links. Shareable links can be used for publishing a document or for collaboratively editing a document.


Documents are only accessible by you (the owner) unless you turn link sharing on. One way to turn on link sharing is by clicking the Share button in an open document. Then you'll see an option to Get shareable link. Clicking that option turns link sharing on and copies the link to your clipboard. The link is set to Anyone with the link can view. You can change this to Anyone with the link can comment or edit.

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Once you have the shareable link copied, you can paste it into a document, webpage, link shortener, Twitter, Facebook, etc. By replacing /edit in the URL, you can do some pretty nifty tricks. You can transform a shareable link into a Preview, Copy, Template, or PDF link.


Below are glanceable graphics for each kind of link. See full website above for detailed descriptions and tips.

 


    


   

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