If your organisation allows, you can invite people who don't have Google Accounts to collaborate on your Drive files and folders as visitors. You can stop sharing at any time or control if visitors can edit, comment or find your file.
Share with visitors
Once visitor sharing has been turned on for your organisation, you can share documents with non-Google accounts. Visitors can edit, comment on or view your document for seven days after they have verified their email address. If they must collaborate longer, they can use the link from the original sharing email to verify their identity again. To find which selected accounts you can share, contact your administrator.
- On your computer, log in to your work or school account.
- Go to Google Drive, Docs, Sheets or Slides.
- Click the file that you want to share
Share
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- Under 'Share with people and groups', enter the email address that you want to share with and press Enter.
- To change what people can do to your doc, on the right, click the Drop arrow
- Click Send.
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File types that you can share with a non-Google domain
- Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Sites, Images, PDFs and office files
- Folders or subfolders in a shared drive
You can take away a visitor's access at any time.
- On a computer, log in to your work or school account.
- Go to Google Drive, Docs, Sheets or Slides.
- Click on the file that's shared with a visitor.
- At the top right, click Share
Advanced.
- Next to the visitor, click Remove
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- Click Save changes
Advanced.
.Collaborate on Drive files as a visitor
When you get an invitation to collaborate on a Google file, you must verify your identity with a PIN. After that, you can collaborate on the shared file or folder for seven days. If you need to collaborate longer, you can use the link from the original sharing email to verify your identity again.
As a visitor, you can:
- Suggest edits to, comment on or view shared documents.
- Create files with Docs, Sheets, Slides and Forms in folders or subfolders in a shared drive.
Visitors with contributor access can also upload or download files and folders to folders or subfolders in a shared drive.
Important:
- Visitors can't own data or be added as members of a shared drive at the root level.
- Visitors can't upload or create files and folders in My Drive.
Collaborate as a visitor
- In your email inbox, open the invitation email from your contact.
- Select Open.
- In your email inbox, open the verification code email from Google.
- Copy the verification code.
- Return to the 'Verification' browser tab.
- In the box provided, enter the verification code.
- Select Next.
You can now collaborate on the shared Google file or folder.Learn how to add, edit, reply or delete comments.
Tip: To find the document again, open the email from Google.
You can delete your visitor session at any time. When you delete your visitor session, your name is removed and all your changes and comments are attributed to an unknown user.
Important: If you delete your visitor session, you'll lose access to files that have been shared with you. To regain access, the files must be shared with you again.
- Using the invitation email from your contact, sign in to your visitor session.
- At the top right, select Your initial.
- Select Delete visitor session
Send.
- In your email inbox, open the verification code email.
- Copy the verification code.
- Return to the 'Verification' browser tab.
- In the box provided, enter the verification code.
- Select Next
Send.Create a Google Account
To change from a visitor session to a Google Account with the same email address, you must first share documents with visitors. Then, you can either create a Google Account or sign up for Google Workspace. Learn how to delete your visitor session.
Note. You can't change from a visitor session to a Google Group. To use the email address for a group, you need to delete your visitor session.
