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How to Copy Text From Protected View Only Google Docs (2026)

This tutorial on how to copy text from a protected view only Google Doc on Google Drive does not require you to download any files.

Greetings, in this google docs tutorial we shall be looking at how you can copy and paste text from a view only google doc. This tutorial is great for if you have a google doc you can view, but you can't make a copy, you can't export it, you can't download it and you can't copy and paste the text containing the data.

Well with this tutorial on how to copy data from a view only google doc, you can copy and paste the data with no issue. So to copy text from view Only Google docs you need to go to your url address bar and at the end where it says "edit", change that text to "mobilebasic". Then hit enter and you will load the google doc you want to copy data from in mobilebasic mode.

Now you need to press F12 on he keyboard to open up the Chrome developer tools. Then you need to go to the network tab and find the "mobilebasic" entry in the network activity table. Click on it and then go to the preview tab. You will see a preview of the mobile basic google doc you are looking at. You will be able to drag to select the text and you can copy text from it by right clicking and then clicking on copy or with CTRL + C.

This method allows you to basically make a copy of a view only google doc. Then in this new google doc you have made and pasted data into from the view only google doc. You can then download, export, make a copy of or do whatever you want to the doc you made. So this basically lets you download a view-only google doc online.

How to Copy Data From Protected View Only Google Docs

How to Copy Text From Protected View Only Google Docs (2026)