Save As Doc Add-On

The Save As Doc Add-On is for Google Sheets. Use it on the responses sheet of a Form to display your responses as a document rather than cells on a spreadsheet. This Add-On has been saving lives for a while now, but with more and more people using Google Forms, it helps to spread the word. Grading responses inside of little cells is a job for Flubaroo, but when autograding isn't necessary, or when answers are largely open-ended, Save As Doc is the winner. Tuen those cells into paragraphs in a nice, easy to read and understand document.

Cells with unwrapped text can be too small for responses:


Cells with wrapped text can be too large:


So, go up to Add-Ons. If you don't see Save as Doc, go to Get add-ons:


Search for Save as Doc and click on the blue "Free" button:


Agree and Accept all of the terms and services. 

Now you can go back to Add-ons, choose Save as Doc, then Start:



A Sidebar will pop-up on the right, you can quickly choose your settings:

1) Title your Doc,  2) Check to Include Headings,  3) Add a pagebreak after each row if you want each student (or row of responses) to show up on their own page,  4) VERY IMPORTANT - Select all data,  5) Click Save as Doc and wait a few seconds, or more, depending on the size of the spreadsheet,  6) Open the Doc will appear after the Doc generates

View your responses in an easy to read AND understand document:


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