About
Show a Google Doc on your screens: news for your team or customers, announcements or a notice board. Publish the document to the web and show it with our Website plugin. Edit the document and the screens follow.
Get Started
Publish your document
- In Google Docs, choose File → Share → Publish to the web
- On the Link tab, click Publish, and copy the link
See Google’s guide.
Show it on a slide
- In the Play editor, add the Website plugin to a slide and paste the link
Show a Word document from Microsoft 365
- In Word online, choose File → Share → Embed, click Generate, set the size and copy the code
- In the Website plugin, choose HTML Code, click Add HTML and paste it
Options
Click the Website plugin on the slide to see these.
| Option | What it does |
|---|---|
| Alignment and Cropping | Fit to canvas, align left, center, right, top, middle or bottom, and lock |
| Website | The address of the page to show |
| HTML code | Paste an HTML snippet instead. Where to find widgets |
| Pre-load website | Starts loading 15 seconds early so it’s ready. Turn it off for pages with an intro animation or autoplay video |
| Enable scrolling | Off by default (no scroll bar). Turn on to let people scroll on a touch screen |
| Refresh periodically | Reloads while the slide shows, besides each time the slide starts |
| Refresh Interval Seconds | Seconds between reloads |
| Zoom | Makes the page fit better |
| Positioning | Place it pixel by pixel |
| Sizing | Set its size in pixels |
| Add Script | Add scripts, for example to log in or click. See Website Scripting |
FAQ
Do my edits show up on the screens?
Yes, when the slide loads again. Turn on Refresh periodically for quicker updates.
