Forcing Each User to Make their Own Copy

How to Force a Copy of a Google Doc, Slide, Sheet, or Drawing

By Shake Up Learning

Here’s how it works!

STEP 1

Be sure you have shared your document either as “anyone with the link,” or “public.” This has to be enabled before you can use the force a copy trick.

STEP 2

• Open the doc, slide deck, sheet, or drawing you want to use.

• Click in the search box and look at the end of the link.

• Replace the word EDIT with the word COPY in the link.

• Click return/enter.

STEP 3

Copy and paste this new copy link wherever you need–in an email, on your website, presentation, newsletter, etc.

Don’t forget STEP 1! If you haven’t made it shareable the link will not work!

When the user clicks on the copy link, they will be prompted to make a copy of the file.

Once they click the “Make a Copy,” button, it will make a copy of the file and add it to their Google Drive.