Convert KoboToolbox (xls) forms to Microsoft Word

[kabira_namit]

Hi everyone,

Zaeen de Souza and I have created a webpage that can convert KoboToolbox (xls/xlsx) forms into easily editable and printable Microsoft Word (.docx) documents.

Here’s the link:

Kobo2Word

We hope you find it useful!

A couple of known issues:

1. You need a ‘form_title’ in your settings page in order for the conversion to work.

2. The labels in the ‘survey’ and ‘choices’ sheets need to be called ‘label’ and not ‘label::English’ or ‘label::French’ etc.

An example XLSform that you can use to try out is attached.

xls_template.xlsx (13.3 KB)

Best,
Zaeen & Kabira

[Kal_Lam]

Thank you @kabira_namit! This is a great support to the KoboToolbox community! Could you also have a look at this resource material shared by @zaeendesouza?

Converting kobo forms to word documents

Hi all, I’d like to introduce a small Shiny Application (web app) I made that converts ODK/Kobo questionnaires to formatted word documents that can be edited further and/or printed out. At present, it takes as input a standard xls form, which must have three sheets: survey choices settings It will then produce a formatted word document - users have the option of choosing to add skip logic for each question, as well. By default, it will not do this. I’d like to get some feedback from the co…

[kabira_namit]

Hi @Kal_Lam. @zaeendesouza led both efforts! The previous iteration was more general. This one is customized to KoboToolBox.

[Kal_Lam]

@kabira_namit,

[chris]

Thanks @kabira_namit - much appreciated

[anacarolcjp]

Amazing work, thank you so much

[marceloriffo1988]

Hello Kabira_namit and Zaeen de Souza. Kudos for making this tool ! Sadly it does not seem to work at the moment. Am I the only one having trouble with this?