![]() It seems Takeout only converts Google Docs to PDFs. I had the same issues as Don and Unknown, but two hours later and with much trial and error searching the interwebs for alternate solutions and deleting my recently acquired malware acquired therein I returned to Skelton's site and figured it out! (One would think it wouldn't take so much time to figure out how to save time, but alas.) ![]() But you can also use it to do a batch conversion on a single folder of documents.įirst, check your Google Drive settings and make sure its set to convert uploads to Google Docs format (you can switch this back after). Google Takeout is a service offered by Google that lets you essentially download all of your data from Google services - emails, photos, documents - into one massive ZIP file. Thankfully, there's a workaround that allows you to still use Google Drive to do your batch conversions: Google Takeout. There are other tools out there for bulk converting PDFs though, annoyingly, many of them (especially on Mac) don't retain hyperlinks. You can still download Google Docs files as PDFs if you open them up individually - but that's pretty time consuming if you have dozens of handouts to convert (as I do pretty much every semester).įor awhile, I got around this by switching back to the "old" Google Drive whenever I wanted to do a conversion, but that option has now disappeared. However, in the new Google Drive, the option to bulk download your Google Docs files as PDFs is gone (instead, it just defaults to downloading them as Word files). This saved me a lot of time in creating handouts for my students. ![]() For years, I've been using Google Drive as a quick and dirty way to convert dozens of Word files into PDFs with a few clicks (using this great tutorial as my guide).
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