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There is another way that you can make your document available to viewers that is a little different from the way demonstrated in the last section: publishing.

To begin, start with an open document. Click on the Share button again to explore a few more options (as shown to the right). When you click on View as web page (Preview), you will see a web-page preview of the document you are working with. This preview will not have the Google Docs toolbar or menu bar, but might have the internet browser toolbars depending on your browser settings. If you know how to look at the source document, you will see that it is actually an HTML file – a web page.

If you scroll down on the web page, you will see a couple of links and a command button (see below). At the bottom right of the page is a link to Edit this page (if you have permission). If you are logged into Google Docs, this link will take you to the writeable document with the menu bar and the toolbar (assuming you are the document owner or an invited collaborator). If you are not logged in, the link will direct you to the Google sign in screen, where, once you log in, you will gain access to the document (again assuming you are the document owner or an invited collaborator).

On the bottom left side of the preview document is a link for Google Docs — Web word processing, presentations and spreadsheets. This link takes you to Google Docs (http://docs.google.com); if you are signed in to Google, you will be automatically directed to your document list. If you are not signed in to Google, it will take you to a screen where you can do so.

The Report abuse button will alert Google Docs to investigate the document content. Do not press this button unless you really suspect something is wrong. You can press the Back button on your browser to return to the document.

Another view sharing option is to Publish the document page as a web page. To do this, go to the Share button and this time, click on Publish as web page… (as seen below).

This results in the Publish this document screen as shown below. As it explains, your document is not yet published. Publishing a document converts it into a web page, and gives it a unique address, or URL, on http://www.Google.com. Once your document has been published as a web page, you can then forward its URL to friends, family, or colleagues, so that they can view the document from their web browser.

It takes one simple step to Publish the document; you just click the Publish document button, which you can do now. As you can see below, the document is now publicly viewable at a web address. Google Docs has assigned this URL to your document, and clicking on the link will take you to the published document web page.

The screen above also shows you the date and time when the document was published, and provides you with some additional options. The first is to select the check box to Automatically re-publish when changes are made. Clicking this check box option will tell Google Docs to automatically re-publish the web page, or refresh the page, every time you make a change to the original document in Google Docs. This check box will ensure that your published document web page always stays updated. If you want to re-publish your web page immediately, you can do so by clicking the Re-publish document button. This will publish a new version of the web page with any document updates that you have made.

If you are logged into Google Docs, and you are either the document owner or an invited collaborator, clicking on the published URL link is going to take you to the page where you can edit the document. For any other user, the URL link will take them to a web page that is similar to the preview screen that you examined previously. If this user clicks on the link Edit this page (if you have permission), they will see this message: We’re sorry, but you do not have access to this document. They cannot edit, just view!

After publishing a document, return to the Google Docs home, and you can see, that the document it is now listed as Published in the Folders / Sharing column.

To confirm, you can re-open the document, click on the Share button again, and again on the Publish as web page… Note below, that Google Docs confirms that the document is published on the web.

At the bottom of this window, there is a link for Google Analytics, where you can actually track the stats for your document (i.e., how many people visited it, etc.) This option is beyond the scope of this manual, but you can click on the Learn more option for further information.

There is another button as shown above, the Stop publishing button. When you no longer want this document to be published on the web, you click on Stop Publishing. You will see that your link disappears, and your document is no longer published (see below).

Finally, there is one last option and more buttons at the bottom of the window. The Post to blog button allows you to publish your document to a blog. If you maintain a blog, you can set your blog site settings using the provided link, and then post your documents directly to your blog. Most blog writers are familiar with the steps involved in this process, so blog publishing is not further discussed in this manual.

You have now reviewed the basics of publishing your document, which allows you to let viewers access your document as a web page. Plus, Google will actually issue you a URL that you can forward to other users everywhere!

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You will need an open document in order to proceed with the following exercise. If you do not have one open, you should create a new document, or go to your Google Docs list and open a document from there. Once open, you will click on the Share button (as shown to the right), and select the Share with others option.

A Share this document window opens up (as seen below), where you can invite people to share your document as collaborators or as viewers. A collaborator is someone who can actually work on the document, make changes, edit, format, etc. A viewer can only view the document. On the right side of the window, you can click on the Preview document as a viewer link. This shows you what a viewer will see if they are sent the document. Viewers can only do a few things in the document. As you can see, there are only the File, View, and Help menus available to a viewer; viewers cannot edit the document at all.

To allow others to work on the document, you have to actually add them as collaborators. To do this, select the as collaborators button, and then in the text box below, you will type the email addresses of those you want to be able to use the document. You may want to experiment by typing a personal email address now. If you want to add more than one collaborator, separate their email addresses with commas.

You also have some other options under Advanced permissions. For example, it is possible to allow collaborators to invite others colleague to review shared documents. This would involve selecting the check box next to Collaborators may invite others. This feature would be useful in an instance where you might invite a professor as a collaborator, and he/she has a teaching assistant that might also need access to your shared document. Selecting this check box would allow your professor to extend an invitation to his teaching assistant as a collaborator. Under normal circumstances, you would want to protect your documents and would leave this box unchecked.

The second available check box is Invitations may be used by anyone, which allows you to forward your document invitation to a mailing list. This check box allows a large group of people to be added as collaborators at one time.

Before you click the Invite collaborators button, you should note the message at the top, right-hand side of the window. You will see the message that declares: This document is not shared. Currently, there are no other users sharing this document. If there were any collaborators or viewers, they would be listed here.
After you click on the Invite collaborators button, there may be a slight delay while Google Docs prepares to share your document. A dialog box called Tell these people about the document? will open, and will list the email addresses of your invitees.

The Subject: will default to the document title, but can be edited at your discretion. Also, you can type a message in the text box. For the exercise, type, “Here is the document for you to edit.”, as indicated to the right. Then you have the check box option to Paste the document itself into the email message which you will leave unchecked. There is also a CC me check box option, to send yourself a carbon copy. The command buttons at the bottom are to Send or Skip sending invitation. To complete this exercise, click Send so that an email is sent out to the invitee.

Once your invitation is sent, the right-hand side of the Share this document window will change to reflect that This document is currently shared.

This document now has a list of two collaborators; me – the owner, and the person that I sent the invitation to. Your screen should list yourself, the owner, and any invitees. You can remove all of these users if you want to by clicking the remove all link, or just remove the new invitee you added by clicking the “×” next to their name.
It also adds a nice convenient option for you to email all of the collaborators on your document by clicking the Email collaborators link. This opens a window where you can send an email to all of the collaborators. If you use the Google Calendars application, you can create an event by clicking the Create event with collaborators link. To return to your document, click on the  << Back to editing link in the top left-hand corner of the window.

This would be a good time to return to the Google Docs list of documents to examine how adding collaborators has changed the view. You can either close this document by clicking the Save & Close button or you can use the link for Docs Home at the top right-hand side of the window, as seen below.

As you can see below, the document “Banana Tree” now shows that belongs to the folder “Banana Project”, which is highlighted in yellow. Google Docs also lists the users that are working on the document, and names of users that have been invited as document collaborators. The owner of the document is listed in a darker color, and the collaborators name is in a gray or a lighter color. In the date column, Google Docs also specifies the owner of the document. The document “Holidays in America” listed below, represents what it looks like when you are a collaborator on a document owned by another user.

To share multiple documents at once, select them on the document list, and then click the Share button (as shown to the right).

A window similar to that discussed previously allows you to insert e-mail addresses, subject text, and an email message as previously done. You can also choose whether to add the invitees as Collaborators or as Viewers. When you are satisfied with the window content, click Send invitation.

Regarding collaboration, there is a limitation to the number of simultaneous collaborators allowed to work simultaneously on a Google Docs document. While you can send any number of invitations to collaborate on a document, a maximum of 10 people can log on and access a document as collaborators at any one time. After 10 users have logged on to Google Docs to work on a document, additional users will be limited to viewing the document at that time. Therefore, you can invite more than 10 people to collaborate on a document, but simultaneously only 10 people can collaborate at a time.

The advantage of the Sharing option built into Google Docs is that it allows you to have one document with different revisions. You do not have to send a bunch of emails, have your document in 12, 13, or 14 different places on the web, and then try to guess in your e-mail or on your computer which document is the latest. You just have your document living in one place, you have your collaborators, and you will be able to see what changes they have made.

When you open a document with several collaborators, you can always open the Tools menu and click on Revision history as done in a previous section of this manual. Once again, you can see all of the changes that have been made in the document. You can click any of these revisions and see stage the document was at. Also you can click the check box of different revisions, and click on Compare Checked to see the actual differences between versions.

When you store your document in a central place, and have a bunch of different people working on it, the Comments feature (discussed previously) definitely comes in handy. Collaborators working on a document will see the comments and either answer them, make changes based on them, or address them in other ways.

This section has illustrated the tremendous advantages of Sharing and shown you how share a document in Google Docs.

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