Document Studio

Document Studio

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Create documents from data in Google Sheets and Google Forms responses. Use the built-in Mail Merge tool to email documents, the files are saved in Google Drive, generated documents can be automatically shared with colleagues or print them via Google Cloud Print. You can create documents in Google Drive and Shared Drives.

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Create documents from data in Google Sheets and Google Forms responses. Use the built-in Mail Merge tool to email documents, the files are saved in Google Drive, generated documents can be automatically shared with colleagues or print them via Google Cloud Print. You can create documents in Google Drive and Shared Drives.Use Document Studio to create professional-looking and sophisticated documents including personalized business letters, student test results, customer invoices, event tickets, vendor contracts, purchase orders, sales pitches and any other type of document that you need to generate on a repetitive basis. You’ll never have to copy-paste data again.If you generating PDF documents from Google Forms, any image files uploaded by the form respondent can be embedded inline in the generated document and it will link to the uploaded file in Google Drive.The documents can be generated in popular file formats including PDF, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint presentations, OpenOffice formats, ePUB ebooks, HTML web pages or plain text.You can also include Google Maps images, QR Code images and PayPal payment links in your generated documents and emails using the built-in spreadsheet functions that become available once you install Document Studio.You can generate up to 20 documents per day with the free version while premium users can generate 1500+ documents in the 24-hour period. Go to https://digitalinspiration.com/buy to get the premium version.Document Studio is built by Google Developer Expert and 100% compliant with Google API data policies. Certificate can be provided upon request.How Document Studio Works-------------------------Document Studio allows you to automate the creation and sharing of documents in a few easy steps.1. Add the source data in a Google Sheet or import from Excel and CSV files. You can also create documents from new Google Forms submissions.2. Build your templates with markers in Google Docs, Google Sheets or Google Slides.3. Document studio will quickly generate multiple documents, one per row in the source sheet, replacing the markers in the template with the actual data.Bonus Features in Document Studio---------------------------------Document Studio includes Mail Merge so you can automatically send the generated documents to one or more recipients in personalized emails. The included WYSIWYG email designer helps you create nice looking emails with your own brand logo images.The addon is integrated with Google Cloud Print and the generated documents can be sent to any of your printers as soon as the files are generated.All your documents are stored in Google Drive and you can personalized the file name as well the folder path where those files are saved. Use built-in sharing options to immediately share the generated documents with customers, team members or anyone else.Your information is 100% safe in your Google Drive. The Google Documents Add-on does not store, share, or upload any of your data.Use Cases for Document Studio-----------------------------1. Education - Create School Certificates, Student Badges with Google Slides, Student Test Results in Google Sheets.2. Business - Sales Quotes, Purchase Orders with Google Forms, Project Proposals in Google Docs, Vendor Contracts, Client Invoices, Lease Agreement PDFs, Custom Letters3. Events - Generate Thank-you Letters, Create Event Tickets with QR Badges and Google Maps, Send Event Invites with Gmail4. HR Orgs - Employee Appraisals, Employee Requests, Presentation Copies, Policy Documents.Document Studio (with Google Forms and Google Sheets) is also being used by organizations to visually communicate with employees who are working from home during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis.Document Studio Resources-------------------------Getting Started Guide:https://www.labnol.org/getting-started-guide-6030Video Tutorialshttps://bit.ly/DocumentStudioVideosDocument Studio Knowledge basehttps://www.labnol.org/topic/document-studio/Product Websitehttps://digitalinspiration.com/document-studioTechnical Support:https://digitalinspiration.supportPrivacy Policy:https://www.labnol.org/document-studio-privacy-5877Product Updates and Changelog-----------------------------v19 - Improved concurrency checks when multiple Google Forms are submitted simultaneously, added option to include Response Edit URL in email notifications, moved email editor to Cloudflare CDN, remove HTML tags from subject line.v17.4 - Merge on Form Submit option restored in the Save section (thanks for the feedback). If a Google Form submission is routed to multiple email recipients and one or more email address is invalid, the notification would still go out to other valid email addresses.v17.0 - Google Forms Publisher lets you choose one or more Google Forms for which the documents should be generated. Document Studio can now be easily configured to either send emails, or merge documents or do both tasks simultaneously. The merge documents can be sent as file attachments with mail merge.v101 - Added option to resize images in documents that use Google Docs, Google Sheets or Google Slides as templates.v100 - Fix for document template markers.v99 - Resolved issue related to Google File Picker for selecting folders and documents in Google Drivev98 - Migrated to Chrome V8, makes the add-on faster and better.v97 - Fix permissions issue with sharing merged documents in Google Drive.v94 - Security Assessment completed by Google. Scopes updated.v91 - New Tutorial - How to generate PDF from Google Form responses - http://bit.ly/FormsPDFv88 - Automatically skip rows from merging that are hidden in the sheet or filtered. Added support for inline checkout for customers in India.v87 - Quotation marks and apostrophe issue resolved when different styles are used in the document template and source spreadsheet.v84 - Improved export engine for saving files in PDF and other formats.v83 - Bug fix for date issue in Google Forms where the output date in the generated document was off by 1 day for some timezone.v82 - Added support for Google Team Drives. Now select templates with the File Picker in Team Drives, store merged documents inside Team Drive folders.v81 - Google Sheets add-ons may have issues when a user is logged into multiple Google accounts in the same browser. This patch resolves the issue by asking the user to switch to the default account.v78 - Use the preview option to test your settings before running a live document or mail merge. Open sent emails directly from the merge sheet. Merge multiple rows into a single document. Include emoji in email message and subject. Code your own email templates in HTML.v74 - Added support for embedding inline images uploaded via the File Upload field in Google Forms. Bug fixes.v70 - You can now include {{placeholders}} inside the Header, Footer and Footnote section of Google Document templates. Bug fixes.v68: Improved marker detection in Google Slide Templates. Variable markers can now be used inside tables, shapes and groups of shapes or text objects.v67: Fix for Google Forms to support new lines in Paragraph fields. You can now create document templates with a large number of variable placeholders or {{markers}}v63: Bug fixes, date and time are now formatted in the Google Spreadsheet timezonev60: Added support for Gmail Aliases. Mail Merge documents and forms from any of your email accounts that are connected to Gmail.v59: Documents are regenerated when an existing form response is edited and resubmitted by the respondent. Improved Google Sheet formulae for QRCODE, GOOGLEMAPS and PAYPAL.