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title: "Google Apps Script – What a difference 5 years make – Episode 2 [Property Service and Spreadsheet Service updates] – Desktop Liberation"
author: "Martin Hawksey"
date: 2021-06-22T08:17:56+00:00
modified: 2021-06-22T08:18:33+00:00
canonical_url: https://pulse.appsscript.info/p/2021/06/google-apps-script-what-a-difference-5-years-make-episode-2-property-service-and-spreadsheet-service-updates-desktop-liberation/
markdown_url: https://pulse.appsscript.info/p/2021/06/google-apps-script-what-a-difference-5-years-make-episode-2-property-service-and-spreadsheet-service-updates-desktop-liberation.md
categories:
  - "Beginner"
  - "Community News"
  - "Sheets"
tags:
  - "@brucemcpherson"
  - "ramblings.mcpher.com"
featured_image: https://pulse.appsscript.info/files/2021/06/Screenshot-2021-06-21-12.59.14.png
description: "Bruce Mcpherson continues his look at changes in Google Apps Script over the last 5 years, this time looking at PropertiesService and SpreadsheetApp. This post is worth a read just to check you've not missed any new methods for working with Google Sheets, because over the last 5 years there have been many! "
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# Google Apps Script – What a difference 5 years make – Episode 2 [Property Service and Spreadsheet Service updates] – Desktop Liberation

![Google Apps Script – What a difference 5 years make – Episode 2 [Property Service and Spreadsheet Service updates] – Desktop Liberation](https://pulse.appsscript.info/files/2021/06/Screenshot-2021-06-21-12.59.14.png)

> Image credit: Bruce Mcpherson
> How google apps script has changed over the past 5 years. Episode 2 in a series of post covers the Properties Service and the Spreadsheet service

Bruce Mcpherson continues his look at changes in Google Apps Script over the last 5 years, this time looking at `PropertiesService` and `SpreadsheetApp`. This post is worth a read just to check you’ve not missed any new methods for working with Google Sheets, because over the last 5 years there have been many!

Source: *[Google Apps Script – What a difference 5 years make – Episode 2 – Desktop Liberation*](https://ramblings.mcpher.com/5-years-in-apps-script-what-a-change-e2/)

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*Published by [Martin Hawksey](https://pulse.appsscript.info/p/author/admin/) on [Pulse](https://pulse.appsscript.info/). Original article: [https://pulse.appsscript.info/p/2021/06/google-apps-script-what-a-difference-5-years-make-episode-2-property-service-and-spreadsheet-service-updates-desktop-liberation/](https://pulse.appsscript.info/p/2021/06/google-apps-script-what-a-difference-5-years-make-episode-2-property-service-and-spreadsheet-service-updates-desktop-liberation/)*