How Add-Ons Help You With Google Docs

There are a couple of add-ons available for Google Docs and Google sheets that help improve workflow.

When it comes to getting approval on certain documents; sometimes you may have a document that needs to be approved by a supervisor or principal or superintendent. Before you can turn it in and so that’s where the add-ons for workflows come in very handy.

What is Add-On?

Add-Ons in Google Docs are like extensions for Chrome. Just like extensions add new features to the Chrome browser, add-ons extend the functionality of Google Docs and Google Sheets.

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What is the Best Add-on For Google Docs?

There are more than 50 Google add-ons at the time of launch and here are one of the best add-on I experienced and it should have in your Google Docs.

Collavate – which is a document approval system with streamlined workflow stages for collaborative document edits and reviewer approval decisions. With this add-on for Google Docs and Google Sheets, you can make the most of the approval workflow directly from your Google Docs screen with just a few clicks! You can install this add-on directly from their official website. You can also use its features in the comfort of your Google Docs and Sheets screen. Some of its features are:

icon-check Simple Workflow – Easy to use with everything you need to get things done

 Multiple Reviewers – Setup Parallel and Sequential Reviewers

 Google Doc Approval – Track approval status in Google Docs

 

What is Workflow and how it makes collaborating on documents in Google Docs easier?

Workflow is a progression of steps which consist of tasks, events, interactions. It comprise a work process by involving two or more persons, and create or add value to the organization’s activities. In a sequential workflow, each step is dependent on occurrence of the previous step while in a parallel workflow, two or more steps can occur concurrently.

Workflow can be automated with software tools that use business rules to decide when one step has been completed successfully and the next step can begin. Some workflow management software (WMS) programs can also coordinate dependent relationships between individual steps, a concept known as workflow orchestration. Workflow documentation and business process modeling are important aspects of business process management.

Keep team members on the right track and encourage adherence to company validation processes through mandatory workflows. Apply specific workflows to any type of document that is subject to an approval process. Workflow reporting helps managers maintain visibility over approvals and easily identify any productivity gaps.

You can use Workflows to gauge opinion. Invite several people to approve a document and you can see what the general consensus is. Reviewers can add comments as well as accepting or rejecting a document, so it’s a good way to collaborate when members of a team are not able to speak to each other directly.

It is a free and effective way to get a document digitally signed off by a number of people on the team with the free add-on.

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8 Responses to “How Add-Ons Help You With Google Docs”

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    Oct 22. 2020

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  2. Harold Burton

    Jun 03. 2021

    My favorite Chrome extension is unpinterested! When searching Google for images, I don’t want to see Pinterest images. If I wanted to see Pinterest images, I would search Pinterest. An added bonus is when searching Google for ANYTHING, the results don’t include Pinterest.

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  3. Ashley Jones

    Jun 18. 2021

    Lol, these arbitrage opportunities is why Amazon’s share price and PE is completely inflated at a 270x PE. Using investor’s equity to fund a loss on every textbook trade? Spencer you’re just going to cause the acceleration of the financial correction on Amazon’s share price with this tool =) Nice work on an interesting tool and a great new side business idea.

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  4. Joseph Donahue

    Jul 06. 2021

    my first information from you I must say you are awesome. I thought it would much harder but seems a little straight forward. Also I was going to add emmet to my vscode but which emmet version are you using? There are like 8 different emmets and no actual just emmet extension

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  5. Kelly Hubbard

    Sep 03. 2021

    Single job extensions are useless and ultimately clutter. The full screen/page capture tool. That is all it does… nothing more. I’d rather use, “”Nimbus Screenshot & Screen Video Recorder””, which not only captures a full screen/page, it can capture what we see, what we select and it can record tab or desktop into webm format. Plus it has on screen editing tools in both screenshot and video record modes. Tools to add text, shapes, various arrows, blur out text and more. Much like how news reporters on TV add arrows to live traffic reports is what the tools in video mode can do.

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  6. Jayme Silvestri

    Nov 10. 2021

    I truely enjoy your articles Joshua hit the ball out of the park with this list. Something for everyone.

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    Social Blade – youtube SEO stats
    Loom – for creating quick tutorials

    Love your work

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  7. Holly Hooper

    Nov 10. 2021

    I wanna suggest an extension that you might find useful. This extension lets you watch videos while you do other things on your laptop. It’s a resizable window so you can watch stuff while you work. The only flaw it has is that it doesn’t allow music videos to be played on their window, because they are licensed content.

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  8. Paul Brown

    Dec 20. 2022

    Pretty much all screen capture plugins can take screenshots of a whole page. I am using Nimbus but they can pretty much all do it. With Nimbus, you can select between capturing the whole page, only the visible part or a selected area … then you can edit it if you need (crop it, blur some parts, add arrows to point something, add texts, circle things, etc…). I really recommend it instead of the one you talked about in the .

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