Google Drive makes sharing your files simple and easy. In addition, Google Docs allows multiple people to edit the same file, allowing for real time collaboration.
To share your Document:From your Drive, select the document you want to share (you can also select multiple documents), and click the Share button.
From your document, click the blue Share button in the top right of the window.
Then, follow these instructions:
Under "Add people," type the email addresses of people you want to share your document with. You can add a single person or a mailing list.
To the right of the list of names, select "Can view," "Can edit," or "Can comment" from the drop-down menu.
If you'd like to add a message to your invitation, click Add message and enter some text.
Click Share & save. To skip sending an invitation, deselect the option 'Send email notifications (recommended).' Your collaborators and viewers will still be able to access the document from their Drive, but won't receive an email invitation.
In the 'Sharing settings' dialog, you can also see who has access to your document, change the level of access people have, remove editors, commenters, and viewers, and change your document's visibility option.
To Publish your Document: Once you're done creating and editing your document, you can publish it to a webpage. Go to the File menu and select Publish to the Web.... Then, click Start publishing.
You can send your document's URL to your friends, colleagues, and family, and they can enter it in their browser address bar to view your document.
Notes:
It's not possible to publish PDFs.
After you publish a drawing, any changes you make will be updated automatically. However, this won't happen instantaneously. Allow a few minutes for changes to be reflected at the published URL.
Activity: Practice publishing an existing Document of yours to the Web to see the process in action.
Google Apps 101 by Kurt Wismer is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.