google sheets Archives - Jeff Everhart

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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Resetting Triggers in Google Apps Script

Occasionally, when you are running a Google Script attached to a spreadsheet or document, the triggers that run those scripts can sometimes start to malfunction. Over the last five years, I haven’t been able to identify meaningful patterns for why these triggers and the associated scripts fail, but it just happens sometimes. However, here are […]

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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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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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Fixing error: cannot read property “values” from undefined

Typeerror: cannot read property “values” from undefined is one of the most persistent and frequent errors you can get when doing any type of scripting in Google Apps Script. One of the most frequent questions I get on this blog, so I decided to dedicate a post to helping people troubleshoot this pesky error. First, […]

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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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