How To Use Google Sheets Script Editor

Once you click on the script editor option it opens the script editor in a new window as shown below.

How to use google sheets script editor. To create a bound script select tools script editor from within google sheets. Enter your script into the editor. Click tools then click script editor google apps script opens in a new tab with an empty script. 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. This will open the.

Click the tools tab. The spreadsheet service treats google sheets as a grid operating with two dimensional arrays. To retrieve the data. You can rename your sheet in the top left corner. Select the tools menu and select script editor from the menu.

By default it ll open with a single google script file code gs and a default code block myfunction. Then click the menu tools script editor. Function myfunction. There are a few things in google sheets that you need to enable before you can start writing google scripts there. The google sheet editing window this is what your blank google sheet will look like.

To open a new tab with the code editor window. Click on where it says untitled spreadsheet and type in whatever name you want to give your sheet in this example new sheet. You can change the name of the project by clicking on the top left part of the screen that says untitled project. It s an easy way to create both standalone and bound scripts without leaving google apps. In google sheets you can find the script editor in the tools tab.

This will open a new tab in your browser which is the google apps script editor window.