Browse and insert reusable text snippets right from the sidebar. Format your snippets based on themes managed in a Google Sheet.
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Overview
Doc Builder can save hours of typing in financial reports, technical support, customer care, legal documents and more.
You can also add snippets that contain special merge tags to fill your documents with real data from various data sources using Ultradox.
Doc Builder stores snippets with native Google Docs formatting and can optionally auto-format your snippets based on themes defined in a Google Sheet.
Organize your frequently used text snippets in folders on Google Drive for instant access.

Credits:
Development: Mael Caldas, Daniel Florey
UI Design: Esther Cornils
Big thanks to The Paraplanners for funding the development of this add-on!
http://theparaplanners.com
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Power Running
March 9, 2024
I've loved this app for a few years now. It's not perfect, but has saved me countless hours by allowing me to insert saved files that generally include a web/video link, text, and images. However, within the last week or two, it's changing the black text that always follows my blue hyperlink text to the same color blue. I've tried looking at theme settings but so far can't figure out how to stop this from happening each time I insert a snippet. I hope they can fix this so I don't have to keep changing the font colors manually.
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Thania Oller
June 26, 2023
I am the only person in my organization getting this error message: ScriptError: API call to drive.permissions.list failed with error: File not found: 1x_mOCzVnXwVaFJ9CqFI7pvpwuoJ07aUj This error message is coming up when attempting to open the DocBuilder Sidebar from Extensions. Doc Builder (v3.5) - Free)/ How can we fix it? I've uninstalled and re-installed.
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Hannah Conner
February 22, 2023
This has worked great for my organization, but after today's update it no longer allows us to open any of our shared drive folders. Please fix this!
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Shawn Dempsey
January 31, 2024
Whenever I insert a text snippet that includes bullet points, they become unusable. Checklist points are converted to numbered points. They should fix this.
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Kyle Mullaney
April 19, 2022
This does not appear handle images properly in their various position settings. If the image is set to be "in-line" the image will be handled well. It will not execute is the the image is set to "wrap-text" or "text break" it doesn't work at all it would seem. Finally the add-on fails to pull the image in the "In-front" and "behind" text options.
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Sarah Parker
December 24, 2021
Amazing once you figure out how to set it up. We couldn't really find any help docs, but figured out that you have to do two things: - Create a spreadsheet using their template to create your document "styles" for text options/settings you can use later as a drop-down menu when using the add-on. - Create a separate Google Doc for each "snippet". We organized these "snippets" into related folders for complex document building. We had a document automation platform that was stand-alone, and it took a lot of time for manual data entry (not easy to automate or integrate with ANYTHING without custom code), and found we only needed complex doc building scenarios for a few things; everything else could just be a Google Doc template on its own. This option does the same thing for us, and is directly integrated. This does need detailed directions/a wiki for support. Many people may not be able to figure out how to set it up, initially.
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Henry Challis
February 20, 2023
With the latest version I cant insert a doc with a drawing I get the following error: The content of your snippet caused an internal Google Docs error: PARAGRAPH[INLINE_DRAWING] Exception: Action not allowed Could you take a look please.
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Goster GetGoing
March 9, 2021
Awful - I just want to be able collect snippets from my document to reuse as I GO ALONG!!!!!!!!!!!!! This add on says "insert snippets" but there is no intuitive way to ADD your own snippets to the collection of the plugin - everything I clicked added some stupid image and graphic lines and giant header title - horrible. Its slow and the add on demands permission to send your information to 3rd party websites. UNINSTALLED IMMEDIATELY not worth it.
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Anshul Jain
September 25, 2021
seems great but its poorly designed. I can't see any of the example documents anymore because it just vanished as soon as I starred my own snippets. Had great potential but feels like nobody cares about this extension now.
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Daniel Florey
February 16, 2023
New version available which should fix a few bugs and also works with Shortcuts in Google Drive
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