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Procare Solutions Internal Ideas Portal
Status Will not implement
Workspace SCW
Created by Mike Mercer
Created on Dec 21, 2020

Reports to be exported in a google sheet or google document instead of word or excel. District only uses google products, no longer uses Microsoft.

Now, employees have to do a few extra steps to change from microsoft to google.

Center Name Denver Public Schools
  • ADMIN RESPONSE
    Feb 2, 2021

    Thank you for the idea! SCW does not currently have plans to support exporting to Google Docs file type. Pleas see the information below in order to simplify converting Excel into Google Doc.


    Install the "Office Editing..." Chrome Plugin

    A further enhancement to manually uploading xlsx files to Google Sheets is a Google Chrome plugin called Office Editing for Docs, Sheets & Slides, which you can install into your browser from the Chrome web store. With this plugin installed, if you open an xlsx file in Chrome, it will view the file in Google Sheets.


    You may notice that when you open a file this way, initially you're in "Compatibility mode", which looks a little different and has some fewer features than the full Google Sheets. So, if you want to do more with your document, from the File menu, choose Save as Google Sheets, and the file will move into the full version of Google Sheets.


    Updating your Computer's Default Application

    Once you've installed the "Office Editing..." Chrome plugin, you can then edit your computer's settings, to make Google Chrome the default application for opening xlsx files. This means that any time you open an xlsx file, it will go straight into Chrome, and then to Google Sheets.

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