Google Docs is one of Google's most useful products. It's practically unrivaled when it comes to collaborating on documents and easily sharing them across the web, which is why it's so popular.
However, the information-sharing web app can now-only be used with Google docs, which means outside of the app's official Document Cloud, cloud-storage or FileStorage domains and its Premium service, which is available to Google staff only and lets them in on office files added to Google Docs, there's no way to access other cloud-hosted docs through Google docs's shareable links; users simply have to have free google.com in their address bar to see those.
In addition, Google breaks operating system-specific features, such as the ability of a website to serve up notifications for Google Docs users, out of the app. As a result, if you're using one of the following operating systems, you'll need to turn embedded email notifications on on those here to see Google Docs links: Windows, MacOS and Linux. Here's how to do that on your different operating systems:
Windows
Click Exceed and click Settings. Can you See embedded emails?
Click Yes.
MacOS
Click Preference in the menu bar. Add or select Other Accounts Manage Addons.
Tell MacOS that you want to fill in an email address.
Convert MacOS's Apple Mail address to something else.
Linux
Open System Settings and select Alarm & Clock Select Automatically log into accounts Click 'Add another account'
Enter a name for the account Select Yes to save the default, or if you want to change it For the user name enter the same user name that was used on the Google account you are logging into For the password enter the one you used for the Google account Enter a link to the Google Docs document you want to share or save from the FileStorage Domain (Its webpages act as a unique identifier for that domain) For a typical link use the Services at https://docs.google.com/?si=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fsearch%2Fdisplay%3D%28familyname%29%29 Check the 'Enable links to accounts from other domains' checkbox on the Account Settings tab
Notice the drop-down menus for 'browsers' and the 'Additional hosts' in the 'Primary document hosts' menu composition, and this is important. "The reason behind this is because when creating the shared URL, you are also attaching the Shared Hosting Directory www.google.com at the end
However, the information-sharing web app can now-only be used with Google docs, which means outside of the app's official Document Cloud, cloud-storage or FileStorage domains and its Premium service, which is available to Google staff only and lets them in on office files added to Google Docs, there's no way to access other cloud-hosted docs through Google docs's shareable links; users simply have to have free google.com in their address bar to see those.
In addition, Google breaks operating system-specific features, such as the ability of a website to serve up notifications for Google Docs users, out of the app. As a result, if you're using one of the following operating systems, you'll need to turn embedded email notifications on on those here to see Google Docs links: Windows, MacOS and Linux. Here's how to do that on your different operating systems:
Windows
Click Exceed and click Settings. Can you See embedded emails?
Click Yes.
MacOS
Click Preference in the menu bar. Add or select Other Accounts Manage Addons.
Tell MacOS that you want to fill in an email address.
Convert MacOS's Apple Mail address to something else.
Linux
Open System Settings and select Alarm & Clock Select Automatically log into accounts Click 'Add another account'
Enter a name for the account Select Yes to save the default, or if you want to change it For the user name enter the same user name that was used on the Google account you are logging into For the password enter the one you used for the Google account Enter a link to the Google Docs document you want to share or save from the FileStorage Domain (Its webpages act as a unique identifier for that domain) For a typical link use the Services at https://docs.google.com/?si=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fsearch%2Fdisplay%3D%28familyname%29%29 Check the 'Enable links to accounts from other domains' checkbox on the Account Settings tab
Notice the drop-down menus for 'browsers' and the 'Additional hosts' in the 'Primary document hosts' menu composition, and this is important. "The reason behind this is because when creating the shared URL, you are also attaching the Shared Hosting Directory www.google.com at the end
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