On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 11:05:55AM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote: > That document has been created using my work account. Recently my employer > changed the settings for work documents such that even read-only access has > to be granted explicitly. Making a document viewable without authentication > is no longer supported. I am considering next time I use Google Docs to > prepare a meeting to use my personal gmail account since making documents > public from a personal account is still supported. Yeah, that would be my strong recommendation. My employer has the same restriction and I similarly will make sure that I create such documents using my personal gmail account and then share Editor status with my work account so I can more easily edit it from my work account if necessary. If you have a document that was created with your work account, the procedure to "transfer" it over to your personal account is: * If necessary, remove any work-proprietary information from the document; you can revert that change at the end of this procedure if you want the work version of the document to have internal information in it * share the document with your personal account * open the document with your personal account * select File->Make a copy to make a copy of that document which is owned by your personal account * Rename the copy so that it has something thing like (PUBLIC) in the the name so you can easily disambiguate the public version from the work version. OR, delete the work version of the document so you don't end up confusing yourself. * Enable link sharing on the public version of the document If you've ever wondered why the document which you can reach via the URL https://thunk.org/gce-xfstests has "(public)" in the title, that's why.... It's a bit more work for you, but it makes much life much easier for everyone else trying to access the document. Cheers, - Ted
