How to Force a Copy in Google Slides or Docs

In this tutorial, you will learn how to force anyone you share your Slides or Docs to make a copy so they can't mess up your original! Using /template in place of /copy allows them to preview the document first so that's another option.

[AndreaGriggs-nh]

THANK YOU! I have been trying to figure this out for hours!

[ceehouston]

THANK YOU!! So quick and straight to the point!

[debraengel]

I love your videos, so helpful! I'm going to start using the COPY feature for all my google docs!

[terejp]

Thank you for the video! I have a question? somebody share a slide with this but I cannot make the copy I Only have a message like this "Sorry, unable to open the file at this time" Do you know how to fix this? how can I make the copy? thank you for you help

[kellikestel]

Love your videos!!!! Quick question...once I send this to my students, is there a way that everything stays in its place and only the link can be clicked? Or does it always give them the ability to move things around, even with them receiving a copy?? Thanks!

[ginaformosa]

so: if i choose make a copy for each student in Gclassroom, and we share the link for the document between several teachers, how is it possible that one student can edit their document and it edits the original, EVEN when I chose "make a copy" ? thoughts?

[fshorts]

thanks i didn't know how and click this now i know!

[mrniallridgway]

BRILLIANT! Thank you! That's a brilliant tip!

[anakatharinarueda]

I have learned so much from you, and THANK YOU for that. I feel better creating slides for my students and some of my co-workers are attempting to create too. I have a question. I made an interactive slide for reading and want to share with some of the teachers, if I share it in view mode, can they assign it to students or needs to be in edith mode? I will appreciate your response. Thank you again.

[beverlyritter]

How do we send the slides to the people we want to share them with?

[mc.haulotte]

I use google classrooms to assign work to students. I am trying to figure out how to link a doc in a slide so that when the students click on the doc, they will have their own copy. Is this possible?

[carmencassarino]

Hi and thanks a lot for your fantastic videos ! Is It possibile to force a copy also for Google Forms? I tried but It didn' t work !