The WhatsApp messaging platform is one of the most used by millions of people around the world. With it you can communicate with anyone but it is also used to send multimedia files. If you still don’t know how to do it, here we can help you.
How to save your document as a PDF to send it via WhatsApp more formally?
In its beginnings, WhatsApp was a sensation that gradually reached every corner, its conquest hook was the option that the user had to personalize his message. But as time has passed, the needs of the population have grown and they are more demanding.
This case is not unreasonable, because many people work with their mobile phones or sometimes they need to send important information by a more common means than usual. So the platform has been incorporating more tools and options such as sharing videos, which we just have to learn to use to take advantage of them.
One of the things that can be done is to send PDF documents through the application. When you have finished preparing your document in Word, you only have to go to the File tab and locate the Save As section. Then at the bottom there will be two bars, one to place the name and in the other you must select the type of File and choose PDF.
How to use WhatsApp web to send the PDF or Word file to whoever you want?
The healthy competition that exists between social networks to win the largest number of users has made each one want to stand out for its innovations and its multifunctions. WhatsApp has a fierce fight with another application, Telegram. Both developed their Web application that has been very useful.
The good thing about the desktop app is that you can be at work and send messages from the same device. But you can also send files from your computer through this platform. You just have to look for the Web version on your computer and enter your session.
In the desktop version you must select the conversation of the contact to whom you want to send the file. When entering at the top, locate the clip icon to add a contact, a video, a photo or in this case a document. This action will allow you to choose the file you have on your PC and send it.
What to do to send a Word file from Google Drive to a contact or group?
Another thing you can do on WhatsApp is to send a document from Google Drive, these actions make people’s jobs easier. This is because someone can be out for a walk with their family or friends, but if they urgently need to send a file they do not have to interrupt their activities, but can do it from their mobile.
choose privacy
One aspect that each person must decide according to the importance of the file is how many people can have access to it. Because of that, you have three options: the first is to the public where anyone can find it on Google.
The second is that people must have a link in order to use it. The third is when the file is restricted and only the users you have chosen can have it.
Will the user be able to edit or not?
Another of the wonders of this service is that you can determine the use that the people who have the file that you shared can give it. Again, you have three electives, among these you can choose the use as a reader and the person can only see it. With the second you can set that the person can comment on the file, but not edit or share it. In the third you can edit and share the file with others.
What is the option to ‘Forward’ a document sent by WhatsApp to another chat?
If a contact sent you a document through the application and you want to send it to one of your contacts or to a group, you can do it easily. You just have to search the chat where the document was sent to you and keep that or those messages pressed.
Immediately, you will see several icons on your screen, including the right-facing arrow that is forward. This action will take you to choose the contact or group with whom you want to share the file you received. Then you just have to touch the send icon.