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#TechTipTuesday - Makin' copies

This week's Tech tip is one I learned just recently from @MsKraushaar and it is brilliant.

Sometimes you want to share your work inside Google, but then sometimes you want to share it so that a colleague can make it their own.

This past week I learned that by changing a simple word in the share link from a Google document (slide show, spreadsheet, etc) you can send a link which will force the clicker of said link to make a copy of the item you are sharing.

It is as easy as grabbing the url from a file you have in Google:

And then change this portion of the URL

to read like this

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HE9p36SSgjgBCzx3wSE7DZzp70kunWL9rv0uV3r7w-M/copy?

When you share the above link with someone they will be prompted to Make a copy of the document after they click it (see picture below)

Happy sharing.

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