How To Use Google Sheets Script Editor

You can rename your sheet in the top left corner.

How to use google sheets script editor. In google sheets you can find the script editor in the tools tab. Then click the menu tools script editor. Click the play run icon on the toolbar at the top. Once you click on the script editor option it opens the script editor in a new window as shown below. By default it ll open with a single google script file code gs and a default code block myfunction.

To create a bound script select tools script editor from within google sheets. Enter your script into the editor. Function myfunction. The spreadsheet service treats google sheets as a grid operating with two dimensional arrays. Click tools then click script editor google apps script opens in a new tab with an empty script.

Click the tools tab. This will open the. The google sheet editing window this is what your blank google sheet will look like. This will open a new tab in your browser which is the google apps script editor window. Select the tools menu and select script editor from the menu.

To retrieve the data. Click on where it says untitled spreadsheet and type in whatever name you want to give your sheet in this example new sheet. Anatomy of the google sheets script editor. There are a few things in google sheets that you need to enable before you can start writing google scripts there. It s an easy way to create both standalone and bound scripts without leaving google apps.

If you remember from earlier bound scripts work like an add on to specific files so to create one let s open up an existing google sheet spreadsheet that contains at least one duplicate data point.