To send a document as an attachment, just follow these steps:
- From the Share drop-down menu at the top right, click Email as attachment.
- Choose whether you'd like to send the document as an attachment to the email, or paste the document itself into the email message.
- In the appropriate fields, enter your recipients' email addresses, the file type for your attachment, and, if you'd like, a subject and message.
To send a spreadsheet as an attachment, follow these steps:
- From the Share drop-down menu at the top right, click Email as attachment.
- Choose whether you'd like to send the spreadsheet as attachment in .xls, .ods, .pdf, or just the tab you are currently editing in .csv, .txt or .html. (To export a different tab as .csv, txt or .html, open the tab in your spreadsheet and click on Share - Email as attachment)
- In the appropriate fields, enter your recipients' email addresses, and, if you'd like, a subject and message.
Please note that same as exporting data from Google Spreadsheets, embedded objects such as charts, gadgets, and images may be lost when sending spreadsheets or tabs as attachments. Also, at this time you cannot send images, graphs, charts, gadgets and other embedded objects as attachment in .html format.
After you click Send, the people you're emailing this document to will receive it as a downloadable attachment in the file format you selected.
Although this attachment is editable offline by each recipient, these edits won't be reflected in the original Google Docs document.