Embed a Google Object

Video

Watch this short video to learn how to add an item from the Google Suite (e.g. Docs, Slides) into a page in Google Sites:

Transcript:

See instructions below or click "Next" to add a file from Google Drive to your site.

Instructions:


Screenshot of the Insert menu in Google SItes.

2. Select the type of item you would like to embed, such as  Google Slides, choose from the files in your Google drive, and click on insert.

Screenshot of the Google Slide pop-up menu in Google Sites with a presentation selected and the Insert button showing.

3. Once embedded you can resize it using the blue dots on the corners and sides of your file. 

Screenshot of a Google Slides presentation embedded in the editor page of Google Sites.

4. You don’t have to make the entire document visible as the visitors to your webpage will have a button to open the document in a new browser tab.


Screenshot of the "Launch in New Tab" icon i nth etop right-hand corner of a Google Doc embedded in a Google Site.

5. Remember that the files you embed will need to be changed from Restricted to Anyone with the link (i.e. make it public) so that site visitors can see the embedded document. 

Screenshot of the sharing options in Google Docs.  The public "Anyone with a link" option is selected.

PLEASE NOTE:

You will not be able to interact with the embedded objects (for example go through a slide show)  when you are in edit mode. To see what your page visitors will experience, click on the preview button in the top menu.

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