See who has viewed your Google Doc, Sheet or Slide. - Kimbley IT (2024)

FAQs

How to see who has viewed a Google Doc 2024? ›

First, open Google Drive and log in with your Google (Gmail) account. Next, open the Google Doc, Sheet, or Slide that you want to check. To access the “Activity Dashboard” screen, click on the “Activity Dashboard” icon (upward trending arrow) located at the top right corner of the screen, next to the “Share” button.

1. Open the Google Doc, Sheet, or Slide that you want to view the activity for. 2. Select the Tools menu > Activity Dashboard.

No, Facebook does not provide a feature that allows you to see who views your personal profile, timeline, or page.

Yes they can. If the person has “editor” rights they will be able to see the entire list of people it's shared with. If it's shared using a shared link then anyone who's viewing the document will be shown in the upper right corner either anonymously (if they don't have a Google Account) or as their Google profile.

If you hide your view history

You can turn on your view history again, and your previously recorded views will appear again. Your views while your view history is turned off will never show. You can still see view history on your documents.

View an earlier version

On your computer, open a document, spreadsheet, or presentation. Choose an option: At the top, click File. Version history.

To audit user activity, use the Drive audit log. As an administrator, you can control whether users see each other's file activity on an Activity dashboard. File activity includes the names of users who have viewed Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides files and the time they viewed them.

On your computer, open a file in Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides. At the top, click Tools > Activity dashboard.

Technically speaking, you should be able to see who viewed your document under "View history." If you aren't seeing that, it might have something to do with the admin settings for your organization, which may be set so that only the activity of the people in your domain are shown there.

To see who has viewed a document, visit Google Docs and sign in with your Google account. Then, open the document. Select the Activity Dashboard icon (jagged arrow) on the top right or Tools > Activity Dashboard from the menu. Confirm that Viewers is selected on the left side.

How do I block someone from accessing my Google Sheet? ›

If you need to change or remove someone's access to your Google Sheet you can easily do this from the "Share with people and groups" dialog. Click the dropdown next to the person's name and choose a new option. You can also make someone the owner of the Google Sheet this way too.

Viewer: the user will only be able to view the workspace or table, but not edit anything. Commenter: the user can view and also comment on table rows, and view bots. Writer: the user can view, comment, and only add/edit/delete table rows, but not change the table structure (columns, views, forms, bots, etc.).

Technically speaking, you should be able to see who viewed your document under "View history." If you aren't seeing that, it might have something to do with the admin settings for your organization, which may be set so that only the activity of the people in your domain are shown there.

If you need to change or remove someone's access to your Google Sheet you can easily do this from the "Share with people and groups" dialog. Click the dropdown next to the person's name and choose a new option. You can also make someone the owner of the Google Sheet this way too.

The content you save on Google Docs, Sheets, & Slides is private to you, from others, unless you choose to share it. Learn how to share or stop sharing files in Google Docs, Sheets, & Slides. Google respects your privacy. We access your private content only when we have your permission or are required to by law.