 If you've taken my courses, you know that I give out templates like a Google document template or a Google spreadsheet template and the questions, how do I do that? Let me go ahead and share my screen to show you how. So imagine this is a document, a really important template. Okay. And then I've got, you know, great, great information here with, you know, bullet points and whatever it doesn't matter. Okay. Now I want to make this a template so that someone can easily make a copy of it and use it for themselves. How do I do that? Two steps. One is I click on share. And I click on restricted anyone with the link. And then I click on commenter. Now this is actually not needed that you do commenter. But the reason is because I like to essentially have two templates. One is for people to comment on the master copy if they want to add any notes or questions for me. But one is for people to just make a private copy. So let me show you, you're probably here to find out how to make a private copy template for someone. So you take the URL. Okay. And I'm just going to, I'm going to show you what the URL looks like. So this is the URL, right? I'm not going to click replace. But this is the URL, right? And what I do is I just take the way the word edit and I put template slash preview. That's it. So I took the word, took away the word edit in the URL and I just template slash preview. And now let me copy and show you what it looks like. I paste it in. That's, that's what it looks like. That's it. And then, and then I give this link to people and they click on use template. And voila, it's the problem is not the problem. I guess the problem I wish it said copy of but it doesn't say that. So I always, you know, in my tutorials, I always tell people, alright, this is you click on use template. Now, this is a private copy in your own Google Drive and go and click on the title and rename it as, you know, Jane does, you know, document or whatever, you know, so that's how you do it for Google Docs same thing for Google spreadsheet. It's the same idea. You know, you have a fancy Google spreadsheet with multiple tabs for for people I'll just show you, you know, second tab third tab or whatever. And then, you know, great, greatest spreadsheet spreadsheet in the world. Okay, if I could spell, and then you click share. Same thing. Restricted anymore the link viewer commenter and you might say George how do you get people to two links. I give them this link the commenter link in my in my course course notes or whatever so let's say let's let you know let's say this was my course notes like here's the wonderful, you know, wonderful template, you know, and basically what I do is I say, click here to make to make a copy for yourself. And then click here for the master copy. If you want to add comments for me. Okay, so like the master copy is what I just what we just got what we just got from the anyone with a link commenter copy link that's the master copy for them to come into a spreadsheet or or document and insert comments and things like that. And the, the, the link for the template template, you know, as as we did earlier right we did earlier was we got rid of everything. Everything in the URL starting with the word edit we just got rid of that and then put template slash preview. And then let me show you what happens. It creates, it creates this, and then the template the tabs are at the bottom as well you know they can click on the tabs to check out if there's anything I didn't put anything in the tabs but that and they click on use this template and then once again, it creates a private copy for I teach them to click on the title and please change the title for you know john's john spreadsheet or whatever. I want to show you a third link. So actually so I've given you I've taught you now to the master copy for commenting purposes, the template copy. And actually, there's a way to give them a link that immediately makes a copy without clicking on use templates. So, so how do you do that you simply, I believe it's it's instead of edit right you just simply do copy. So let's try this link. Yeah, that's it. So, if you don't want people to look at a template, you just want to give people link that they would just have to click on make a copy to be able to see it. That's how you do it so let me show you I click make a copy. And now this does it correctly this says copy of greater spreadsheet in the world, and this is in their own private Google Drive when when they click make a copy so there you go. Three ways, you know, again, a normal Google Google document or Google spreadsheet link ends in slash edit. That's a normal link. And then you you can either you know share it. Anyone with the link commenter and and anyone with the link commenter it's still, you know, it's sorry, let me let me go back here. Anyone with the link commenter link looks looks like looks like a slash edit, you know it might have a question usp sharing or whatever. This link basically allows someone to add comments to it. So that's the slash edit if you have changed the privacy. Okay, and then the second thing I taught you was instead of slash edit to slash template slash preview. Okay, so instead of slash edit. And the third thing I mentioned was slash copy, instead of slash edit. Okay, so those three, give them a try. It's really cool to be able to, you know, share your templates with your students clients, friends, colleagues. So, hope that helps.