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title: Google Docs Updated Sharing Options June 2010
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# [Google Docs Updated Sharing Options June 2010](https://www.ironpaper.com/current/2010/06/google-docs-updated-sharing-options-june-2010)

 Written by [Ironpaper](https://www.ironpaper.com/current/author/admin) | Jun 19, 2010 4:05:40 PM

**Google Docs** is becoming more and more a heavy contender to Microsoft Office. The free office fleet of free web-based software has a very intuitive design, fast speed, great performance and highly robust functionality. Even still, Google Docs has not stolen a huge percentage of population from Microsoft's bread and butter software: Office. From some estimates, Google Docs only has 4% of the US consumer market as regular users.

Sharing capabilities are at the core of web-based office software. Google has just released a series of updates to streamline and improve the sharing functions for it's Docs program. Here is an outline of the sharing capabilities for Docs:

- By **default**, documents are private.
- The **visibility of a document** can be seen clearly next to the document title.
- It is very simple to **share a document**: users can change the doc settings, add editors, or view and change who has access.
- **Document batch editing**: Documents can be batch edited from the browse panel of Docs. The settings of numerous web documents can be changed at one time.

Recent changes:

- **Public on the web**: A setting that allows your document to be found publicly online. If you share the permanent URL online by linking to it from a website or webpage, it will increase the ability for search engines to find documents that having been enabled for public view.
- **Link access only**: This option closes off public general access, but allows anyone with a (direct) link to view the document by clicking that specific web link.
- **Private**: a default setting that restricts viewership unless the author has given explicit access to a specific person.

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