# Public Guides
Source: https://www.stedi.com/docs/edi-platform/guides/public-guides

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title: Public Guides
sidebarTitle: "Share public guides"
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Guides are private by default. Only members of your Stedi account can use private guides.

When you [make a guide public](#make-a-guide-public), your trading partners can view it as interactive web page and validate EDI documents against it instantly in their web browsers. Visit the [Stedi Network](https://www.stedi.com/edi/network) for examples.

When a guide is public, anyone with the link can:

* View the guide web page
* Print the guide
* Troubleshoot EDI files using the EDI Inspector.

## Make a guide public

To make a guide public, click the **ellipses (...)** next to the guide and select **Make public**. You can revert a public guide back to private at any time.

## Share public guide URL

After the guide is public, you can send its public URL to your trading partners and link to your guides from your own website. To copy a public guide's URL:

* Click the public guide to open it in the guide builder.
* Click **Actions**.
* Click the icon next to **View public guide** to copy the guide's public URL.

## Published guide settings

You can use **Published guide settings** to customize the appearance of your public guides. These settings apply to all published guides.

To change your published guide settings:

1. On the guides overview page, click **Published guide settings**.
2. You can adjust the following settings:
   * **Logo:** If not specified, the guide displays your Stedi account name.
   * **Company display name:** If not specified, the guide displays your Stedi account name.
   * **URL slug**: If not specified, the slug is a hyphenated version of your account name.
   * (Optional) **Include link:** If set to `ON`, you can add a custom link to the top of each public guide. For example, you may want to link to a particular page of your company's website.
   * If you include a link, specify the **Link Label**, which is the button text for your custom link and the **Link url**.