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Connect Google Docs to WhatsApp: documents, images and table rows by chat
Flann is an AI agent your business talks to on WhatsApp. Connect Google Docs once, then ask Flann to look things up in it or get work done in it, by text or voice note. Your files and documents are in Google Docs. Flann finds them, reads them and prepares new ones from WhatsApp.
41 actions in Google Docs. 6 only look things up, and 35 create, update, send or delete. You connect with a one-click sign-in.
What you can ask Flann to do in Google Docs
Send any of these on WhatsApp, in your own words. Flann finds the right Google Docs action and fills in the details from the conversation.
“Look up the document plain text in Google Docs.”
“Find documents in Google Docs.”
“Look up the document end index in Google Docs.”
“Delete the table row in Google Docs.”
“Create a document tab in Google Docs.”
“Update the document style in Google Docs.”
What Flann can work with in Google Docs
Google Docs gives Flann 41 actions across 26 kinds of record. These are the ones you are most likely to use.
| Record | What Flann can do | Actions |
|---|---|---|
| Documents | copycreatelook upsearchupdate | 5 |
| Images | addupdate | 2 |
| Table rows | deleteadd | 2 |
| Document markdowns | createupdate | 2 |
| Footers | createdelete | 2 |
| Headers | createdelete | 2 |
| Named ranges | createdelete | 2 |
| Paragraph bullets | createdelete | 2 |
Doing it yourself, wiring up a rule, or asking an agent: here is how they compare for Google Docs.
| Compare | Opening Google DocsLog in, find it, do it | A fixed workflowTriggers built in advance | Google Docs through FlannAsk and get it done |
|---|---|---|---|
| Getting started on a job | Log in and click through the screens | Only what was wired up in advance | Text or voice note, in your own words |
| Looking things up about documents | By hand, screen by screen | Only the look-ups someone built | 6 look-ups, answered straight away |
| Creating and updating | Typed in by hand | Run unchecked once built | 35 changes, made from a message |
| Google Docs records | All of them, one screen at a time | Only the ones you wire up | 26 kinds, from one chat |
| Set-up | Nothing new to set up | Someone builds and maintains each flow | One sign-in to Google Docs |
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Step by step: Google Docs jobs you can hand to Flann
Each step below names the Google Docs action Flann actually runs.
Create a document from a voice note
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “Create a document in Google Docs with these details.”
- Flann runs
Search Documentsin Google Docs and shows you what it found. - Flann runs
Create a documentin Google Docs. - Flann creates it in Google Docs and confirms in the chat.
Get answers about your charts
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “What is the latest on our charts in Google Docs?”
- Flann runs
Get Charts from Spreadsheetin Google Docs and shows you what it found. - Nothing in Google Docs is changed: these are look-ups, so they run straight away.
Check your docs from WhatsApp
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “Show me where our docs in Google Docs stand.”
- Flann runs
Export Google Doc as PDFin Google Docs and shows you what it found. - Nothing in Google Docs is changed: these are look-ups, so they run straight away.
Repetitive Google Docs work Flann takes off your plate
These are the jobs that come back every day or every week. Message Flann instead, and keep the decisions for yourself.
Updating the price list sheet
Today
When a supplier puts prices up, the change has to reach your price list in Google Docs. Finding every affected row, retyping the figures and checking the margin column is fiddly work, and one slip means selling at a loss for weeks.
With Flann
“The wholesaler email has new dairy prices. Update every milk drink in the Google Docs price list.”
Using the new figures from the email, Flann finds every row in Google Docs that relies on dairy and works out the new cost and margin for each.
What you stop doing: Hunting down every affected row and retyping figures by hand is gone.
Logging the day’s takings
Today
At closing you are meant to add takings, card totals and petty cash to a spreadsheet in Google Docs. Tired, you skip it, and the gaps show up at month end.
With Flann
“Here’s the till slip. Add today’s totals to the takings sheet in Google Docs.”
Cash, card and refund totals are read off the slip and matched to the columns already in your takings sheet in Google Docs.
What you stop doing: Typing up the till slip after a long shift is off your list.
More on this: how to hand repetitive tasks to an AI agent on WhatsApp.
How Flann connects to Google Docs
- Search for Google Docs in Flann’s Connectors.
- Sign in to your Google Docs account on the secure page that opens and allow access. There is no developer account or API key to set up.
- From then on, message Flann on WhatsApp. It works in Google Docs whenever a request needs it.
Look-ups run as soon as you ask and change nothing in Google Docs. You can disconnect Google Docs from Connectors at any time.
Ways to use Google Docs with Flann
Keep things in order
Tell Flann where something belongs.
Find it without searching
Ask for last month’s price list or the signed agreement. Flann searches Google Docs and brings it into the chat.
Start a document by voice
Send Flann the gist in a voice note. It prepares the document in Google Docs for you to check.
Everything Flann can do in Google Docs
The full list of Google Docs actions available to Flann once you connect it.
Looks up 6
- Export Google Doc as PDF
- Get Charts from Spreadsheet
- Get document plain text
- Get document by id
- Get Document End Index
- Search Documents
Changes 35
- Copy Google Document
- Create and Populate Table in Google Doc
- Create Document Markdown
- Create Document Tab
- Create Footer
- Create Footnote
- Create Header
- Create Named Range
- Create Paragraph Bullets
- Delete Content Range in Document
- Delete Footer
- Delete Header
- Delete Named Range
- Delete Paragraph Bullets
- Delete Tab
- Delete Table Column
- Delete Table Row
- Insert Image in Table Cell
- Insert Inline Image
- Insert Page Break
- Insert Table Column
- Insert Table in Google Doc
- Insert Table Row
- Insert Text in Table Cell
- Insert Text into Document
- Replace All Text in Document
- Replace Image in Document
- Unmerge Table Cells
- Update Document Section Markdown
- Update Document Style
and 5 more
More Documents apps Flann works with
Google SheetsCommon questions
What can Flann do with documents in Google Docs?
Flann can copy, create, look up, search and update documents in Google Docs, using 5 actions (Copy Google Document, Create a document, Get document by id, Search Documents and more). Looking up runs straight away and changes nothing. The other actions create or change documents in Google Docs.
What can Flann do with images in Google Docs?
Flann can add and update images in Google Docs, using 2 actions (Insert Image in Table Cell, Replace Image in Document). Each one changes something in Google Docs.
How does Flann connect to Google Docs?
Open Connectors in Flann, choose Google Docs and sign in to your Google Docs account on a secure page. There is no developer account or API key to set up. Once it is connected, Flann can use 41 actions in Google Docs.
Can I use Google Docs from WhatsApp?
Yes. You talk to Flann on WhatsApp or in the Flann app, by text or voice note, and Flann works in Google Docs for you. You do not need to open Google Docs.
Is Google Docs included in my Flann plan?
Yes. Every Flann plan includes every app, Google Docs included.