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.

How to use google sheets script editor. Click tools then click script editor google apps script opens in a new tab with an empty script. To open a new tab with the code editor window. The google sheet editing window this is what your blank google sheet will look like. You can change the name of the project by clicking on the top left part of the screen that says untitled project. Then click the menu tools script editor.

By default it ll open with a single google script file code gs and a default code block myfunction. Enter your script into the editor. Click on where it says untitled spreadsheet and type in whatever name you want to give your sheet in this example new sheet. In google sheets you can find the script editor in the tools tab. You can rename your sheet in the top left corner.

To retrieve the data. Click the play run icon on the toolbar at the top. 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. Once you click on the script editor option it opens the script editor in a new window as shown below.

Under the tools menu in your new sheet click the option for script editor that ll open a new tab with a blank script file. Anatomy of the google sheets script editor. 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. To create a bound script select tools script editor from within google sheets.

Click the tools tab.