Workplace automation: variables anywhere, GPT content, bulk merges from Sheets, easy PDF export.
Listing updated:September 14, 2025
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Overview
Now with AI (ChatGPT): turn prompts into on‑brand content right inside your templates.

Doc Variables lets you add smart variables to Google Docs™, Slides™, and Sheets™ to build reusable templates. Declare variables in the title, body, header, or footer—then launch the add‑on to get an auto‑generated form for you or your team to fill. Use it for contracts, invoices, proposals, statements of work, monthly reports, and more.

Key features

- Variables anywhere: title, body, headers, footers, and across tabs
- AI writing: use GPT prompts to generate or refine content
- Template forms: auto‑generated form for all variables in a doc
- Doc Merge: merge rows from Sheets to create multiple personalized docs
- Images & files: import images or embed other Docs by ID/URL
- Lists: bulleted, numbered, or paragraphs from arrays
- Integrations: Salesforce and HubSpot variable sources
- PDF export: create PDFs from your filled templates
- Team‑friendly: share templates; set defaults to guide teammates

Popular use cases

- Sales proposals, NDAs, MSAs, SOWs, invoices, onboarding packets
- Client reports with dynamic charts/text, letters, certificates
- Account plans using Salesforce/HubSpot fields

Example variable syntaxes

${Variable Name}
${Variable Name::~Default Value} — prefill with “Default Value”
${Textarea Name::textarea::~Add default content}
${Select Variable::options::One,~Two,Three} — selects “Two”
${Other Doc::file} — imports a separate Google Doc
${Logo::image::width=200} — inserts/resizes an image
${AI::gpt::~write a 3‑bullet agenda} — generates GPT content

Getting started

1) Install the add‑on and open a Google Doc™
2) Type variables as shown above
3) Open Add‑ons → Doc Variables → Start
4) Fill the form and click Replace to generate your document
5) Export to PDF or run Doc Merge from Google Sheets

Plans

Free tier available. Pro unlocks Doc Merge, Salesforce/HubSpot, images/files, and higher usage limits. Team and Business plans support shared templates and domain installs.
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Doc Variables — Templates, Merge, and AI will need access to your Google account
This will allow Doc Variables — Templates, Merge, and AI to :
See, edit, create, and delete all your Google Docs documents
View and manage documents that this application has been installed in
See, edit, create, and delete all your Google Slides presentations
See, edit, create, and delete all your Google Sheets spreadsheets
Display and run third-party web content in prompts and sidebars inside Google applications
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View and manage data associated with the application
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