Google Apps Script offers Document service for basic document tasks and Google Docs API for advanced control, requiring more technical expertise. This report bridges the gap with sample scripts to unlock the API’s potential.
Kanshi Tanaike’s latest blog post, “Unlocking Power: Leverage the Google Docs API Beyond Apps Script’s Document Service,” is a great read for Google Workspace developers. It offers a goldmine of code snippets that will supercharge your Google Docs projects. Tanaike highlights the advantages of using the Google Docs API for more advanced features and flexibility compared to the standard Apps Script DocumentApp Service. Even though the API requires a bit more technical know-how, Tanaike provides clear, practical examples to get you started.
Some of the sample snippets include:
- Changing page orientation (portrait to landscape and vice versa)
- Merging table cells
- Creating and managing footnotes
- Highlighting superscript numbers in footnotes
- Resetting borders and shading
- Creating checkbox bullets
- Changing section margins
- Controlling table row overflow
- Setting custom line and paragraph spacing
- Replacing placeholders spanning multiple paragraphs
- Converting between soft and hard line breaks
- Managing table borders
- Creating nested lists
- Retrieving all URLs from a document
Kanshi Tanaike’s post serves as a valuable resource for developers looking to expand their Google Docs capabilities. Hopefully with these sample scripts, you can start unlocking new levels of automation and customization in your Google Doc projects.
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