If you’ve suffered anxiety over Autocrat stalling on Google Forms recently (and a lot of folks have, including me), you may be wondering, “What gives?” How could Autocrat, an amazing tool for automating mail merges for tons of uses, suddenly stop working reliably?

The Problem?

Google Forms newfangled table formatting. As you can see, a simple step can resolve the issue:

Once you link Google Form’s responses to a Sheet, make sure to go in and select the “Revert to unformatted data” BEFORE setting up the Autocrat job. This will take the “stall” out of the Autocrat New Job creation process.

Pass it on.