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title: "Pseudo OnEdit Trigger for Google Document using Google Apps Script"
author: "Martin Hawksey"
date: 2021-12-02T19:08:51+00:00
modified: 2021-12-02T19:10:19+00:00
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description: "In the current stage, there is not OnEdit trigger for Google Document. But I sometimes have the case that I want to use OnEdit trigger. So, as the current workaround, I created this sample script. I think that this workaround can be also used for Google Slides, Google Form and also Google Spreadsheet. In the case of Spreadsheet, what the existing OnEdit trigger and the time-driven trigger cannot do can be achieved."
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# Pseudo OnEdit Trigger for Google Document using Google Apps Script

![Pseudo OnEdit Trigger for Google Document using Google Apps Script](https://pulse.appsscript.info/files/2021/12/fig1.gif)

> [https://tanaikech.github.io/2021/12/01/pseudo-onedit-trigger-for-google-document-using-google-apps-script/](https://tanaikech.github.io/2021/12/01/pseudo-onedit-trigger-for-google-document-using-google-apps-script/)
> In the current stage, there is not OnEdit trigger for Google Document. But I sometimes have the case that I want to use OnEdit trigger. So, as the current workaround, I created this sample script. I think that this workaround can be also used for Google Slides, Google Form and also Google Spreadsheet. In the case of Spreadsheet, what the existing OnEdit trigger and the time-driven trigger cannot do can be achieved.

Source: [Pseudo OnEdit Trigger for Google Document using Google Apps Script**](https://tanaikech.github.io/2021/12/01/pseudo-onedit-trigger-for-google-document-using-google-apps-script/)

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