Users can share links to any file stored in Drive, including text documents, spreadsheets, slide presentations, forms and video clips, Google on Wednesday.

Their Google+ contacts will be able to click on a thumbnail within the Google+ interface and open the file in a separate browser window.

Drive files can be shared on Google+ in . Users can copy the URL of the Drive file and paste it into the share box in Google+. Another option is to share it on Google+ using the Drive share feature, which now includes Google+ as a destination option.

When shared on Google+, each file carries with it the access settings their owner gave it on Drive. Users can define which Google+ contacts they want to share a file with.

People who use Drive and Google+ at work as part of the Google Apps cloud email and productivity suite can also restrict posts to colleagues within their organization.