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title: "Import, export and mix container bound and standalone Google Apps Script projects – Desktop Liberation"
author: "Martin Hawksey"
date: 2022-02-22T22:27:02+00:00
modified: 2022-02-22T22:27:06+00:00
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  - "Intermediate"
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description: "Some more magic from Bruce Mcpherson this time creating and documenting a library that can be used to copy/replace scripts. Bruce's illustrates this with an example of pushing a standalone script to a container bound Google Sheet project and I'm sure you can find many other ways this could be useful to maintain script projects. "
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# Import, export and mix container bound and standalone Google Apps Script projects – Desktop Liberation

![Import, export and mix container bound and standalone Google Apps Script projects – Desktop Liberation](https://pulse.appsscript.info/files/2022/02/import-export-scripts.png)

> This article covers how to pull scripts from multiple projects and import them into another project. You can even use this to make container bound script standalone, or visa versa. … This article will cover the library that does all that, along with various other usage examples – for example, pulling in code snippets from or libraries, merging manifests, or testing add-ons.

Some more magic from Bruce Mcpherson this time creating and documenting a library that can be used to copy/replace scripts. Bruce’s illustrates this with an example of pushing a standalone script to a container bound Google Sheet project and I’m sure you can find many other ways this could be useful to maintain script projects.

Source: *[Import, export and mix container bound and standalone Apps Script projects – Desktop Liberation*](https://ramblings.mcpher.com/apps-script/add-ons/import-scripts/)

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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/2022/02/import-export-and-mix-container-bound-and-standalone-google-apps-script-projects-desktop-liberation/](https://pulse.appsscript.info/p/2022/02/import-export-and-mix-container-bound-and-standalone-google-apps-script-projects-desktop-liberation/)*