Generate a Instant Download Link for Whatever Drive File in Two Clicks Context-click the desired item → "Share" → morph the tail of URL from /file/d/FILE_ID/view to /uc?export=download&id=FILE_ID and snag. Done–whoever opening that URL triggers an instant fetch.
Prior: docs.google.com/presentation/d/1AbC3DeF5GhI6jKl7MnO8PqRsT9UvXyZa/edit?usp=sharing Fresh: docs.google.com/presentation/d/1AbC3DeF5GhI6jKl7MnO8PqRsT9UvXyZa/present
Trim every parameter after the ID–no edit, no usp, no ouid. The resulting 53-character path fires the deck to load direct into kiosk mode on any device that taps it.
Right-click the .xmp or .lrtemplate style file sitting in your cloud folder, select Link → Public → View-only, grab the auto-produced URL and paste it into Slack–done in under ten seconds. Forget archives, endless payload, no pop-up parade.
Stack it with &slide=id.p1 to lock the start slide and &autoStart=false to kill autoplay. One tidy string does the job: paste it into Slack, Notion, or any LMS