Exporting Everything Out of Google Docs


	Exporting Everything Out of Google Docs
ccharlebois
8-8-2008 12:56 PM
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google, documents, articles
ccharlebois says:
Good article explaining a way to export all your documents in Google Docs.
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<A href="http://thepaisano.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/gdd-all.jpg"><IMG height="202" width="367" border="0" alt="gdd_all" src="http://thepaisano.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/gdd-all-thumb.jpg" title="gdd_all" /></A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thepaisano.com/exporting-everything-out-of-google-docs/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/thepaisano.com/img/B1780F5D-DB84-4255-9AFA-0CAA030662BA" alt="googledocs_dta" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thepaisano.com/exporting-everything-out-of-google-docs/"><P>1. Install Firefox if you’re still stuck in the 1990s (<A href="http://www.firefox.com">www.firefox.com</A>) <A href="http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node&id=0&t=317"><IMG border="0" alt="Firefox 3" src="http://sfx-images.mozilla.org/affiliates/Buttons/firefox3/FF3b80x15_square.gif" title="Firefox 3" /></A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thepaisano.com/exporting-everything-out-of-google-docs/"><P>2. Install <A target="_blank" href="http://www.greasespot.net/"></A><A href="http://www.greasespot.net"><IMG border="0" alt="" src="http://1st-soft.net/gdd/greasemonkey.png" title="Get Greasemonkey" /></A>Greasemonkey</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thepaisano.com/exporting-everything-out-of-google-docs/"><P>3. Install the <A target="_blank" href="http://1st-soft.net/gdd/googledocdownload.user.js">GoogleDocs Download Script</A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thepaisano.com/exporting-everything-out-of-google-docs/"><P>4. Install <A href="http://www.downthemall.net/"><IMG border="0" alt="DownTHEMall: Firefox Download Manager" src="http://www.downthemall.net/images/buttons/8015_3.gif" /></A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thepaisano.com/exporting-everything-out-of-google-docs/"><P>5. Go to Google Docs and select the documents you want to export (to select all documents in a folder/tag remember to click the Select: All option at the bottom of the screen.
<A href="http://thepaisano.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/googledocs-all.jpg"><IMG height="34" width="125" border="0" alt="googledocs_all" src="http://thepaisano.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/googledocs-all-thumb.jpg" title="googledocs_all" /></A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thepaisano.com/exporting-everything-out-of-google-docs/"><P>6. Click on the new Download Your Documents menu and select the format you want to use for your documents.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/5713388B-FCF2-43F6-AD98-27A97030164D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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