How to Convert Google Forms to PDF? (4 ways) - Extended Forms (2024)

PDF format remains the most acceptable and popular file type for professionals. So, it shouldn’t come as a surprise when many look for a way to convert Google Forms to PDF. Besides, when utilizing digital forms to gather information, there might be occasions where you wish to distribute the form responses either digitally or as hard copies.

PDF lets you do it either way! In a PDF format, you can easily and neatly print out a hard copy, or PDFs can be sent via/import email or social platforms.

Therefore, converting Google Forms to PDF is a practical solution for sharing responses. In this blog, we will discuss how to convert Google Forms as PDF and also other aspects of sharing Google Forms as PDF.

Transforming your Google Form to PDF

If you want to share hard copies of the Google form with your students or even to people who don’t prefer online surveys or anything else. Then you can do that! By converting Forms into PDFs and printing them out to people.

• Create your form, go to Google Forms, choose blank form/quiz
• If you already have a form created that you want to save as PDF, choose that,
• Set up that form by adding questions and configuring settings.
• Click on the dots ‘⋮’ (More) at the upper right corner, select the ‘Print’ option, or just enter CTRL/Command + P button

• Most modern browsers give you the print-to-pdf (save as PDF) option. But if yours is not, then from the print dialogue box, choose the ‘Save as PDF’ option if not already selected.
• Then click on Save, the final outcome will appear as a PDF document to share with anyone you want to or print out afterward.
• Otherwise, you can also directly print out the form without saving it in the PDF format.

Converting Google Forms all responses to PDF

If you just want to view the responses and analyze them afterward then you can instead of whole Google form, just save responses to PDF format. It may not be practical if you have a large number of responses – maybe hundreds or thousands.But it is a possibility!

• Once you have got all the responses, go to the Responses tab
• Click on the three dots (more icon) at the corner beside ‘Link Sheet’
• Select the Print all responses option and then save the pdf file.

Converting forms summary to PDF format

Google Forms have a basic, lightweight, analytics-style overview of responses in the form of a Summary. It provides a summary of all the responses to each question in graph format which can be copied and pasted to a document or presentation of any sort.

We can convert summary stats to pdf format quickly.Follow the below instructions to do so,

• Go to the Responses tab, you’ll see the Summary sub-tab below
• To print the summary or save it as PDF, what you’ve to do is press CTRL/Command + P

• A new tab will open with the preview of the summary, again press CTRL/Command + P to open the printing dialogue page.
• Save it as PDF or print it out.

Converting individual responses to PDF

Sometimes you might want to just share a document of a specific individual with their response only. Then saving the list of all responses as a PDF will be quite mindless and too much to handle in itself.

Instead, you can just convert individual responses from Google Forms to PDF.

• In the Responses tab, select the Individual sub-tab, you will see individual respondent responses that can go back & forth between all the responses.
• Select the response you want to print by its number, navigate to a specific response by using the left-right (back & forth) arrows.
• Or just type the specific number to directly jump to the desired response.
• Click on the printer icon, follow the same steps as above, and Save the PDF format.

That is how users can convert whole Google Forms to PDF or just the responses. Additionally, if you don’t want to save the responses into PDF, you can always link the Forms with a Google Sheet and keep it for future use there.

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Wrap-Up – Enhance Google Forms by incorporating Google add-ons

Here we come to an end, these are all the different ways to convert Google forms to PDF. Whether it is about converting responses, stats, or the whole Google form itself, the process doesn’t take much time to do so.

If you’re using Google Forms a lot or have recently started using it then you must know that there are add-ons available in Google Marketplace that provides more features to Forms. For instance, in Google Forms, there is no timer or proctor feature.

But there’s an add-on that not only provides a countdown timer feature but also online proctoring functionality as well. ExtendedForms is a Google Forms add-on available in Google Marketplace for free to install, both the features mentioned are free to use but it has other features that come under paid plans.