Read more: How to use Google Drive offline There are various ways to go about this depending on the file type involved. For example. you could just paste the file directly when choosing your file formats before sharing Google Doc files. Then the file gets displayed directly in the email instead of having download an attachment. This is only for documents anyway. Also, you can also decide to send an invite link to download the file from your Google Drive or just get a shareable link that you can copy and paste in the emails to give the recipient access to the file.