Google Sheets Archives - Jeff Everhart

Auto Fill a Google Doc Template from Google Sheet Data

In this post, I’ll walk you through how to auto fill Google Doc templates with data pulled from a Google Spreadsheet using Google Apps Script. This tutorial is a follow-up of sort to Auto Fill a Google Doc from Google Form Submissions, so if what you want to do involves a form, that would be […]

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Using Emoji in Google Sheets Formulas

I’m working on a project right now that allows people to send images to the Google Cloud Vision API for analysis using a Google Sheet and Google Apps Script. As part of that project, we talked about how we could incorporate emoji into the analysis in various ways to produce insights. Since this is also […]

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Retrieve Rows from Google Spreadsheet with Google Apps Script

Lots of the Google Apps Script projects that people are working on start with a Google Spreadsheet as a base. Sometimes a Google Form writes data to a spreadsheet that triggers other events, or you have a Sheet you’ve imported that you want to use to coordinate a larger workflow. This post will describe different […]

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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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Creating a CRUD Web App with Google Sheets

Google Sheets tends to be my go to whenever I need to build a really lightweight application that has a limited life span. Usually, these things typically involve a short turnaround or some type of very well-defined set of requirements. After Tom did some work demonstrating the utility of silent Google Forms submissions using JS […]

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Add Custom Menus to Google Docs, Sheets & Forms

Using custom menus can help you automate and streamline certain tasks in Google Apps Script by creating easy-to-use interfaces so other people can run and benefit from your code. In this post, we are going learn how to add custom menus to Google Docs, Sheets, and Forms using Google Apps Script. Adding custom menus allows […]

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The Pros and Cons of Using Google Sheets as an Application Backend

I’ve been doing more lately working with APIs of different sorts, and I recently stumbled onto some cool ways to use Google Sheets to connect with APIs and store the data very easily in a spreadsheet. Having completed the linked project in less than an hour, I was really interested in figuring out the pros […]

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Using Google Sheets and Google Apps Script to Work with APIs

One of the coolest things about working with Google Apps Script is the overall versatility of the Google Apps ecosystem. I’ve written pretty extensively about how to use Google Apps Script to do a lot of more business focused things, like send an email with Google Forms submissions, sending an attachment with Google Forms submission, […]

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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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