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How to change Google Sheet to "Viewing" while having "Editing" access?

Time:09-17

For Gdocs, Edit access can be changed to Viewing to avoid unwanted changes.

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How can that be done for Gsheets?

CodePudding user response:

There's no button in the UI for it, but there is a "Preview" mode available for Google sheets. To get to it you need to edit the URL.

The URL of a sheet in normal editing mode ends with something like ...sOmE-lOnG-ID/edit#gid=1234567. Remove the /edit and everything after it, and replace it with /preview. Hit enter to refresh the page.

It will load a data-only view, no toolbars or anything. Useful to avoid making any changes, though unfortunately there's no commenting feature like Docs has.

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