Print with Comments on Chromebook.

April 21, 2018 9:14 AM

I need to print out a Word Doc with the comments. I'm on a Chromebook. Is this at all possible? Please help.

I've been tearing my hair out over this. I tried installing a Chrome extension that is meant to do this, but it doesn't work -- it doesn't actually show the comments, just puts ridiculously large margins on the page. There are a ton of suggestions online about how to print comments from a Google Doc, but they all seem to presuppose you're using a desktop.

Please, please, tell me there is actually some way to do this. I really need to get these comments printed out.

posted by meese to Technology (7 answers total)

Best answer: Don't use a chrome book, but can you email the doc to someone with a full version of word, have them view comments, print to PDF, then email you the PDF?
posted by Valancy Rachel at 9:56 AM on April 21, 2018

Can you view the doc with comments? If yes, maybe screenshots, then print those?
posted by BlahLaLa at 10:15 AM on April 21, 2018

I don't have a Chromebook to test if it's an outdated method, but there's a youtube video called "Opening a Word file with comments in Google Docs on a Chromebook."
posted by bluecore at 12:38 PM on April 21, 2018

This is kind of involved, but you could technically install crouton, install libreoffice in crouton, and print the document with comments in the margins from libreoffice
posted by retypepassword at 2:12 PM on April 21, 2018

You might try sending your print job to a place to print it for you, eg FedEx, office supply store.
posted by ellerhodes at 4:17 PM on April 21, 2018

Can you open it in Word Online?
posted by sageleaf at 7:09 PM on April 21, 2018

Response by poster: Thanks everyone for the troubleshooting! Turns out the best (only) option was for me to get someone with a PC to save the files as PDFs and send them back to me.
posted by meese at 1:30 PM on April 23, 2018