Do we convert Kobo question form into Microsoft Word?

[mt_pin24]

Dear Valuated KoBo Friends,

I am trying to convert Microsoft word form from already setting Kobo questionnaires form. I used PDF format from Print setting but it doesn’t be good. So if you have any suggestion for it, please let me know.

Best Regards,
Myint Thu

[Kal_Lam]

Hi @mt_pin24,

Welcome to the community! At the present, KoBoToolbox does not offer a feature to export questionnaire into word. It is limited to exporting into PDF.

Maybe the KoBoToolbox developers could work on this feature upon receiving ample votes from the KoBoToolbox community members or upon suitable funding.

[norcrosser]

Hi @Kal_Lam,

Thanks for the reply above. Do you or anyone else know a good way to download the answers from a form into a Microsoft Word document?

I was considering using Kobo for capturing qualitative information from monitoring visits and would like to make the answers into a Word/pdf report.

Thanks in advance for the help!

[stephanealoo]

Hi @norcrosser
As indicated in the previous chats. There is no way to download the data in word.

Stephane

[hescalar]

Is there any option to export a form in a *.doc or *.odt text file? or at least a plain text *.txt?, the only option available is to print a *.pdf file from the preview or the web-form. Unfortunately, this *.pdf file seems to export the form as an image. I tried the different layouts of the form with the same results.

In case it is not possible, has anyone found out a method in order to do that?.

Thanks in advance.

[Kal_Lam]

Hi @hescalar,

Kindly please be informed that i have moved your post here to let you know about the discussion that has been going over which is related with the issue you have posted.

Maybe you could press the VOTE button (at the top) if you wish to see this feature in KoBoToolbox in the future.

Have a great day!

[hescalar]

Thanks.

For those who are still triying, I got 2 ways for doing it, both works in the web-form, no the preview, only the collect data web-form.

• 1rst way: In the page use “Select all” (ctrl + A in my case, it may vary to you depending on the language of your keyboard, your browser or both), copy and paste on a document. You still will have to do formating but it is a good start.
• 2nd way: Scrap the data with a scrapper extension. This one is more advanced and, because I’m kind of noob with that I suppose, it wasn’t really a better option than the first one.

Please implement the exporting to *.doc or *.odt!

[warrenmxt]

What I’ve previously done is to open the form in Enketo web forms, print the form as pdf and open the saved pdf with MS word. The word output still requires some minimal editing…

[stephanealoo]

Hi @warrenmxt
Could you confirm the edits that word output that you get?

Stephane

[ks_1]

A better way to do it, and in bulk, would be to download the data as an excel file and use mail merge: Mail Merge from Excel to Microsoft Word - YouTube

[zaeendesouza]

You could try this out:

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…

[Lembris]

@Kal_Lam this is absolutely important

[Kal_Lam]

@Lembris, cc: @mt_pin24, @norcrosser, @hescalar, @warrenmxt, @zaeendesouza, maybe this would be helpful:

Convert KoboToolbox (xls) forms to Microsoft Word

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: We hope you find it useful! A couple of known issues: You need a ‘form_title’ in your settings page in order for the conversion to work. 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 …

Thank you, @kabira_namit, for sharing this with the entire community!

[anacarolcjp]

Thank you! It helped a lot