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How to Make a Copy of a Google Doc?

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In this tutorial, we are going to quickly make a copy of a Google Document. We recommend you study this manual carefully and start practicing!
How to Make a Copy of a Google Doc?
Checklist of crucial points we aim to highlight here:
  1. Make a Copy of a Google Doc
  2. Creating a Copy from the Google Doc
  3. How to Copy Restricted Docs?

Okay, this doesn’t take much time, so copying the Google Document can be performed either from Google Drive or from the document itself without any further ado.

Watch the video from https://thegoodocs.com/ and find out how to make a copy of a Google Doc:

Make a Copy of a Google Doc

  • First, locate the document on your Google Drive. Click on it with a left mouse button, locate the Make a copy line and press it
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  • Waiting a bit. Here you go
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NB! And what we really like is that Google always puts “Copy of” text in the document’s name. So, you can always tell where's the copy, and where's the original document.
  • And you can even copy the document with the additional menu. Select the file so that it will get highlighted. And then there’s a toolbar in the top right corner here where you need this button with three dots which is the More actions option. In its menu, we press the Make a copy item
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  • Waiting a bit. And here it is
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Creating a Copy from the Google Doc

The next option is performed from the document itself.

  • So, open one. And here we go to the File item on the toolbar on top and press it. We go a bit down and click “Make a copy”
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  • The new little window will appear, where we can rename the document in the first field
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  • And a bit lower, in the second field, we select where it will be placed. And OK to apply
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  • Then the service will immediately create a document and redirect you to it in the new tab in the browser. Here’s the original file on the previous tab and its copy on the next one
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  • And then we go to check it on the Drive. Let us refresh the page. And here it is. We have a “Copy New” Google Doc. Here you go
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How to Copy Restricted Docs?

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NB! And a little extra tip from us — if you want to edit the restricted document that you can only view, you can always make its copy with a single button press from the Google Doc, save it to your Google Drive, and have unlimited access to it.
  • Open up the restricted document in a view mode; as you can see, we are not able to edit this one
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  • We go to the File item on the toolbar on the left, moving a bit down and pressing “Make a copy”
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  • Then you can rename it and select where you want to place it
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  • The newly created copy will open up in the new tab
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  • Now it is fully open and available to you. And you can locate it on your Drive
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We hope this tutorial will help you learn how to make a copy of a Google Doc. Good luck!

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