How To Make Google Docs View Only. Google Drive makes sharing your documents and files easy. Select More tools and then Clear browsing data.
Ad Polish your Google Docs. This video is using the new sharing interface introduced by. Share Google Docs.
You will be taken to the View-only links section of the Settings page.
Share Google Docs. Ad Polish your Google Docs. I thought a specific Google Doc could have both - a link for View only and a link for Edit only but apparently the situation is one or the other. Replace the FILE URL in line 2 with the URL of the Drive file that you copied in the previous step.