Google Docs - Publish to the web or Share | What's the Diff???

You've finished writing your Google Doc. How do you send it out? Publish it? Share it? Let's talk about the difference.

0:00 Intro
0:22 Publish to the web - Link
2:03 Publish to the web - Embed
3:46 Share with others

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[kyraocity]

Thank you. I've struggled with publishing pages that my students could not access. Your video straightened out the breakdown in function. Share do not publish! Thanks!

[RawFitChris]

Really great tutorial. Well spoken, to the point and well delivered. Thank you!

[minorchejean]

I did not see it say "public to the web" on share please help me I hope you do

[Fullstack_LP]

Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks

[wattsobx]

the publish worked great thank you! So did the resizing, however I would like the left hand of the embedded box to shift to the left, do you know the HTML to do that?

[marscaleb]

Wait, published documents don't retain their formatting?
I spent time specifically setting up specific formats, and it doesn't retain any of it?

[jtveg]

Thanks for sharing. 😉👌🏻
No pun intended. Really!

[nicolithompson]

I am want to control when documents are updated. I understand unchecking the automatic updates box to control this, but what do I do when it comes time to republish the document? Do I stop publishing or just check the box to update the document to the latest?

[w]

Just published a document to web and it has put my text into text 'boxes' whereas tje original document it was a border around the entire text!Text boxes not what I wanted!

[Nexlith]

When I posted the link for cover of the link on discord says Google docs create for free it doesn’t say the name of the document how do I change that

[benbennemans]

Hi there. Great vid. I have a problem though. I made a big document and published it on the web. It was displayed just like I wanted and then 12 hours ago, the text (and this now happens with all my other documents as well) was displayed in the center with big margins to the left and right. The text is displayed far smaller than it used to be and worse: there are these big banners up (name of the document and this useless info that the document is updated every 5 minutes) and down (with a link to google drive and a report option and this used to be all the way down, smaller and not present in the readers view all the time. Same goes with the top banner). If I use Ctrl + so I can enlarge the text and read it in a better way, then those banners become screen-filling big, while in the past it just made the text bigger. The whole readability and attraction of this feature of google doc are down the drains for me this way. Terrible. Can I do anything so it is displayed like it used to? Normal, like it used to be? I hope somebody can help me out.

[MrMalix]

Just curious, when you publish your doc as it’s own webpage, will people be able to find and view your account/email?

[rebeccagalea]

Hi, I have a document on pdf/word to make it public. On both, it did not work. The button SHARE IT TO WEB, I cannot find it. Any ideas pls?

[Haildawn]

If you update the document and republish, does the link url change?