I found a couple people surprised by this in another context, so I'll include it here: while nice and featureful, Google Docs requires viewers to be logged into Google. This is a problem for some curmudgeons like myself, so if at all possible, try to have at least some alternate means of providing the data.
Yeah, it looks like documents can be viewed publicly (without a Google account) if going through the Viewer: http://docs.google.com/viewer
Pretty handy if you have a bunch of files in their original formats available for downloading, but want to have links available for easy online viewing.
They probably haven't set up the sharing properly.
If you share a document, in the "Permissions" box the top item lets you change how visible a document is, and there's also an "allow anyone to edit" checkbox so you can even edit without signing in.
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I found a couple people surprised by this in another context, so I'll include it here: while nice and featureful, Google Docs requires viewers to be logged into Google. This is a problem for some curmudgeons like myself, so if at all possible, try to have at least some alternate means of providing the data.
Not necessarily true, if you set it to public, right?
Ah, I couldn't say since I don't use it myself. I know I've been asked to log in to view publicly disseminated document links.
If setting it to public solves the problem, by all means do that!
Yeah, it looks like documents can be viewed publicly (without a Google account) if going through the Viewer: http://docs.google.com/viewer
Pretty handy if you have a bunch of files in their original formats available for downloading, but want to have links available for easy online viewing.
They probably haven't set up the sharing properly.
If you share a document, in the "Permissions" box the top item lets you change how visible a document is, and there's also an "allow anyone to edit" checkbox so you can even edit without signing in.