> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Google Drive, Docs and Sheets

> How to use a Drive file, folder, Doc, Sheet or Slides deck as a Destination, and what the file's General access setting decides about who can open it.

```
https://docs.google.com/document/d/FILE_ID/edit
```

Do not build this by hand. Open the file, choose **Share → Copy link**, and paste that in as the
Destination. The same applies to a Sheet, a Slides deck, and to any file or folder in Drive.

Swapping `/edit` for `/preview` opens a Doc read-only, without the editing toolbar — usually what
you want on a tag.

## Who can open it

The file's **General access** setting decides this, and it is the only thing that matters here:

* **Restricted** — only named people, and the default for a new file. A scan does not bypass it:
  anyone else gets Google's request-access screen, which is the file behaving correctly.
* **Anyone with the link** — what you set if people outside your organisation should be able to
  open it.

Set the role to **Viewer** unless you genuinely want scanners editing the file.

<Note>
  **Test in a private window before you produce a Batch.** Signed in as the file's owner, everything
  opens — so a Restricted file looks fine right up until someone else scans it. The access rule is
  doing its job; you just want to know which rule is set before five hundred tags carry the code.
</Note>

## Related

* [What Is a Destination?](/destinations/what-is-a-destination)
* [Microsoft 365](/integrations/microsoft-365) — the same job, the same trap