Google Drive Archives - Jeff Everhart

Translate Text Selection in a Google Doc using Google Apps Script

In this quick tutorial, we’re going to build a simple little menu add-on for Google Docs that lets you translate text into another language. Some of this functionality may be baked into Google Docs at this point, but this should be a good tutorial that wraps together a few different services and methods of augmenting […]

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Auto Fill a Google Doc from a Google Form Submission

It’s been awhile since I have written anything to do with Google Apps Script, so I decided to start exploring some features of the Apps Script world that are new to me. When I first got started with Apps Script almost 6 years ago, there were lots of things I wanted to do, but just […]

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Outsmarting Google: Generating Download Links with Google App Script

For the most part, I love working with Google App Script. The APIs are what you expect them to be. Most of the features are well-documented. Heck, I’ve even tried to build Google Sheets into a small relational database. But after you’ve been around the block for awhile, you realize there is this odd black […]

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How to insert and remove rows and columns in Google Sheets

In this Google Sheets training tip, you will learn how to insert and remove rows and columns in a Google Sheet. Sometimes, when you are working with Google Sheets, you will need to shift things around and add or remove rows/columns. Check out the quick video below or read through the written explanation. Step 1: […]

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