Invite people who don’t have Google accounts to collaborate on your Google Drive files and folders as visitors. You control who can edit, comment on, or view the file. You can also stop sharing the file at any time.

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See changes made to your files in Drive and keep track of who made those changes. You might see changes when someone:

• Edits or comments in Google Docs

• Renames a file or folder

• Moves or removes a file or folder

• Uploads a new file to a folder

• Shares or unshares an item

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If you aren't connected to the Internet, you can still view and edit files, including:

• Google Docs

• Google Sheets

• Google Slides

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You can find files in Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides by searching for:

• File title

• File contents

• Items featured in pictures, PDF files, or other files stored on your Drive

You can search for files stored in My Drive, shared drives, or shared with you. Files shared with you are searchable as long as you've opened them. Learn how to add files to My Drive.

Labels are metadata you define to help you organize, find, and apply policy to items in Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides. Drive labels are useful for many common workplace scenarios for organizing files, including: record management, classification, structured finding, workflow, reporting, auditing, and more.

There are a variety of methods to apply labels to files, and each file can have up to 5 labels applied to it.

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When you’re working with people outside of your organization, such as clients or agencies, you might want to restrict their access to certain files when your projects are complete.

For files in My Drive, you can set an expiration date to limit or end access to that file.

You can also prevent shared drive members with Manager access from modifying settings. In the shared drive, you can restrict:

• Non-members from accessing files

• People outside your organization from accessing files

• Commenters and viewers from downloading, copying, and printing files

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Once you add important or frequently accessed files to a workspace in Drive Priority, you can set Priority to be your homepage. That way, you can see these files as soon as you open Google Drive.

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