How To Use Google Sheets Script Editor

In google sheets you can find the script editor in the tools tab.

How to use 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. Select the tools menu and select script editor from the menu. Once you click on the script editor option it opens the script editor in a new window as shown below. The spreadsheet service treats google sheets as a grid operating with two dimensional arrays. You can rename your sheet in the top left corner.

Click the play run icon on the toolbar at the top. To open a new tab with the code editor window. This will open the. Anatomy of the google sheets script editor. To create a bound script select tools script editor from within google sheets.

By default it ll open with a single google script file code gs and a default code block myfunction. Click the tools tab. 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. You can change the name of the project by clicking on the top left part of the screen that says untitled project.

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. Enter your script into the editor. Function myfunction. Click tools then click script editor google apps script opens in a new tab with an empty script.

Then click the menu tools script editor.