Share Google Drive Files with WhatsApp Contacts on LG L70

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Steps

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    To begin, unlock the phone by pressing the top right-hand side power button and swiping up one time to get to the home screen
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    We do not have Google Drive on the home screen, so we need to the access the apps menu
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    The Apps icon is located in the bottom right-hand corner of this home screen. It's a gray box with a set of white squares inside.
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    Scroll left and right until we find the Drive icon, which is a triangle in 3 colors
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    Tap on it to open the application.
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    Scroll through to find the file to share, and press on the gray circle with the lowercase "I" in it
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    This opens a menu of options where we need to make sure that link sharing is on.
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    We can do that by scrolling down to find the "Who has access" section
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    We can see that Link sharing is on for this document, so anyone with the link can view this file. They can't edit it but they can view it.
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    To share it, tap on the second option in the top row of icons labeled "Share link"
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    It has a paperclip icon. This gives us a list of options for how we would like to share the link.
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    Scroll down to "WhatsApp" and tap on it
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    Select the contact to share the file with
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    We'll select the first one. A confirmation will appear.
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    Tap "OK"
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    The confirmation just says , "Share with (name)?". Pressing "OK" will bring us to the chat where we can see the document name as well as a link to this document has been shared. In order to close this application and go back to the home screen, we can tap the bottom center button on the phone.
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    This does conclude the tutorial on how to share a Google Drive file with a WhatsApp contact on the LG L70
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    If you have any comments, questions or suggestion, please leave them in the space below.
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Questions and Answers

File sharing in WhatsApp from Google drive?

I have uploaded a pdf file in Google drive from my computer. Now I want to share the same in my Android phone in WhatsApp group. I don't have Google drive app and I don't want to install currently. How do I do it?. I have tried: I opened Google drive in my phone using chrome but not finding any option to share. I think it was caused by: I am doing this first time so have no idea

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    Open https://drive.google.com and log in if needed.
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    Tap on the three lines in the upper-left corner.
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    Tap on "Desktop Version" in that menu.
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    Tap on the file to share.
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    Tap on the icon at the top that looks like a chain.
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    Copy the link to the buffer that will pop up on the screen.
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    Paste the link in WhatsApp to your conversation partners.
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How to share Google drive files with WhatsApp contacts?

I am having Samsung Galaxy J5 model.. Tell me how to share Google drive files with WhatsApp contacts. In my mobile I am not able to find the Desktop menu

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