greetings it's maxo diddly today I'm going to be showing you how you can download a view only Google Drive Google doc file that you can only View and not download or copy and paste let's get right into it so I've been given access to a Google doc and I want to download it but downloading is not enabled the first step is we need to open up for Google doc so let's open it up up and if we look at it there's some text and some images of the best Pokémon to ever be designed and we want to download this file to make a local copy and when we go to file the download option is disabled we also can't make a copy and we can't copy and paste the data in the document however we can download a local copy for ourselves this technique I'll be showing you will not alert for makeup of the document or whoever shares the document that you have downloaded the file using this technique the only way they're going to know is if you tell them or they watch you do it so you're going to be fine if privacy is a concern and the first step is we want to go up to the URL where it has sledit and then probably Tab and then some characters after we want to delete everything from the word edit and Beyond so for me I'm going to delete edit question mark tab equals 2.0 but it might look a little different from you but there's going to be a slash then edit then some characters so you want to drag and select those characters to delete and once you've clicked and dragged you then press the backspace or delete key on your keyboard after that we're going to type in Mobile basic this will be the description below for you to copy and paste and once you've typed that you then want to press the enter key on your keyboard and this is going to show you a mobile basic version of the document and what we can do here is we can rightclick on this web page and then click on save as and we can actually download this web page so we're going to give it a name we'll call it uh important document. HTML it's really important you have HTML at the end of the file and make sure the save ads type is a web page complete if you do webpage HTML only or web page single file you're not going to have everything in this Google doc make sure it's web page complete after that you can then click for save button and this will download for mobile basic web page that we have on the screen and if we go to our downloads folder we can see the document has been downloaded so we can either click on it here and this will open it up and as you can see the file works if you look at the URL here this is the local version of the file we can view everything and we have a local copy that we can use or we can click on the little folder button here to view it in the file explorer and then you can just double click on this file or you can rightclick go to open with then pick a web browser of your choice to view the HTML file I'm going to pick Google Chrome so we're going to click on Google Chrome and we've opened up the file again and this is a local copy of the view only Google Drive document so you have a local copy of the data this could be really handy if you found a cool file on the internet that you want to make a local copy of or maybe at work they share out some important documents but they don't let you download it they only let you view it and you want a local copy for whatever reason or any other reason this tutorial's got you covered whoever shares the document or whoever creates the document is not going to know that you've downloaded it unless you outright tell them so thanks for being a great audience for sure to leave a like and a comment if you enjoyed And subscribe for more tutorials thanks for watching