How To Use Google Sheets Script Editor
It s an easy way to create both standalone and bound scripts without leaving google apps.
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. Click the play run icon on the toolbar at the top. Once you click on the script editor option it opens the script editor in a new window as shown below. The google sheet editing window this is what your blank google sheet will look like. To retrieve the data.
To create a bound script select tools script editor from within google sheets. 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. Enter your script into the editor. Anatomy of the google sheets script editor. The spreadsheet service treats google sheets as a grid operating with two dimensional arrays.
By default it ll open with a single google script file code gs and a default code block myfunction. Click on where it says untitled spreadsheet and type in whatever name you want to give your sheet in this example new sheet. Select the tools menu and select script editor from the menu. To open a new tab with the code editor window. Click tools then click script editor google apps script opens in a new tab with an empty script.
This will open a new tab in your browser which is the google apps script editor window. Function myfunction. You can rename your sheet in the top left corner. Click the tools tab. Then click the menu tools script editor.
In google sheets you can find the script editor in the tools tab.