google docs- having problems

ali-t

I am having some problems with google docs and the help section on google docs has 100's of questions from users but no answers as they have all been locked.

I created a survey for a course I am undertaking and tested it out on a very small scale myself prior to going ahead and had no problems.

It is only now that I have some responses and am trying to print the document or save in another format that I am finding it doesn't work. I was trying to be MSE by using google docs rather than survey monkey but there are lots of google glitches.

The main problem is that when it is a spreadsheet I can't read it to get the data, it is difficult to manouvere around. It won't let me print or download it as a pdf as I get an error message. This is apparently a major glitch with it. I can print it all on one page but as there is so much data/text it isn't legibile - even if enlarged repeatedly on a photocopier.

I have even tried to copy and paste it onto a word document but the word doc would need to be around 6 landscape pages long and I can't do this either.

I can't download it into any format that makes it readable and can't print it at all. Any suggestions for remedying this? My dissertation is depending on this and it is too late to redo it in another format.

getthemax

I assume it's a spreadsheet in google docs that you're having trouble with? Have you tried File->Download as->Openoffice and exporting it into an Openoffice spreadsheet?

If you haven't got Openoffice then it's a pretty good replacement for Excel and costs nothing.

I've found google docs to be a bit flakey as well. I use Opera most of the time and the formatting gets easily weird in google docs spreadsheet.

ali-t

I don't have open office but could get it. As the spreadsheet data has been taken from an online survey using set answers and free text would the openoffice spreadsheet allow all the text in the box to be seen?

I need to find a way to print it off so I can read all the information submitted to be able to analyse the data effectively.

getthemax

ali-t wrote: »

I don't have open office but could get it. As the spreadsheet data has been taken from an online survey using set answers and free text would the openoffice spreadsheet allow all the text in the box to be seen?

I need to find a way to print it off so I can read all the information submitted to be able to analyse the data effectively.

I don't know to be honest, but I've found Openoffice to be pretty robust, and it's probably worthwhile installing it anyway for future use anyway.

I've downloaded a spreadsheet from google docs into an Openoffice spreadsheet and it formatted it fine, but the best advice I can give is to try it and see.