Share or Publish

Once you generate the query results in the Google Sheet, you can share it with other users. With sharing, creates a copy of the worksheet and sends it with the design tools hidden and worksheet protection turned on.

The recommended steps to take before you publish are:
  1. Review and inspect to remove personal or sensitive information.
  2. Save the source version of the worksheet. Consider adding a file name suffix of –src for the source worksheet. Then, remove the suffix in the distributed copy.

    Once you are ready to distribute to the users, click Share.

    • In the Share window that appears, add the user email IDs with whom you want to share the Sheets and to whom you want to provide permissions for accessing the Sheets.
    • You can select the permission of the users from the drop-down. Select Editors if you want the user to share the worksheet. Viewers and commenters can see the option to download, print and copy but not share the sheets.
    • Select Notify people check-box to notify the users of the share.
    • Under General access, select Restricted from the drop-down to share it with people who have access to the link. You could also share it with people who do not have access by selecting Anyone with the link from the drop-down.