I’ll introduce how to share Google Drive files as a guest with email addresses that don’t have Google accounts.

Background: Wanting to Share as a Guest with Non-Google Account Email Addresses

When trying to share Google Drive files, documents, spreadsheets, slides, etc. with email addresses that don’t have Google accounts, I encountered the following messages:

• "Google account not found"
• "Permission denied. Access rights may have been changed."

The issue was that I was trying to share as a [Content Manager] with a non-Google account email address. I was able to successfully share using the sharing procedure described below.

Google Drive Guest Sharing Procedure

Source: ドキュメントをビジターと共有する - Google ドライブ ヘルプ

1. Access Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, or Slides.
2. Click the file you want to share.
3. Click the share icon.
4. In [Share with people and groups], enter the recipient's email address and press Enter.
5. To change what the recipient can do with the document, click the down arrow on the right side, then click [Viewer], [Commenter], or [Editor].
6. Click [Send].

In this case, it’s good to remember that you cannot invite someone as [Manager] or [Content Manager].

That’s all from the Gemba.