Skip to Main Content

Workflows Makes Collaborating on Documents in Google Docs Easier


Chrome: When you collaborate on a project, you may need to have documents approved by other team members. Workflows is an add-on for Google Docs that brings this feature to Google's online office suite.

Google Docs has a commenting feature that is very helpful when editing documents, but Workflows takes things a step further. Install the add-on and you access it from the Add-ons > Workflows menu in Docs. You can use the add-ons to get simple approvals for new documents—whoever you invite to the workflow is able to approve or reject as they see fit.

You can also use Workflows to gauge opinion. Invite several people to approve a document and you can see what the general consensus is. Reviewers can add comments as well as accepting or rejecting a document, so it's a good way to collaborate when members of a team are not able to speak to each other directly.

Workflows is a free and effective way to get a document digitally signed off by a number of people on the team without the need for specialist software.

Workflows | Chrome Web Store via Make Use Of