Copying or Printing Google Docs with Comments

If you are using Google Docs with students to give teacher feedback, or as part of a peer-editing process, there are times you will want to either be able to copy or print the doc with all the comments intact. This used to be a headache but it's easier now.

First, Google has recently added the ability to simply copy comments when making a copy of the document. You can choose to share or not with the original collaborators or with others. Here's a short video showing how:

The work-around for printing Google Docs with comments is still to download the document as a Microsoft Word document and print from Word. Although there are a few Chrome extensions that  offer to print Google Docs with comments, I haven't found them reliable. Here's how to to download a Google Doc as a Word file: