Have you ever asked for a list from a client, another department or agency and instead of saving into a file that might even be considered marginally useful, they give it to you as a pdf.
After some prostrations to the great Google Apps Script gods, I had a though. “Hey, can’t we convert a PDF to a Google Doc with just a click of the button? Surely the great Google Apps Script devs have made it so we can do it programmatically too.” And you know what? They bloody well did. The big legends.
Yagi shares a comprehensive walk-through of how you can sometimes extract data from .PDF documents using Google Apps Script and the advance Drive service. The solution is also able to work on .PDFs created from images using the built-in OCR features of Google Drive and you might want to drop the getTextFromPDF() function shared in the post.
Cleaning up data from downloaded accounting reports or from other systems can take up valuable time and resources. In this episode of Sheets to Apps, we’ll walk you through adding automation to your monthly Excel accounting data that records your steps into a script that you can run repeatedly with Google Sheets macro recorder.
From the video description you’ll find all the links you need to the example Google Sheet, instructions and more
Por esa razón me he puesto manos a la obra y he preparado MEDIAMOVIL(), una función personalizada GAS capaz de calcular varios tipos de medias móviles, que puede ser utilizada (como todas las funciones personalizadas) de manera combinada con el resto de funciones integradas que nos ofrecen las hojas de cálculo de Google.
TRANSLATED: For this reason I have gotten to work and have prepared MEDIAMOVIL(), a custom GAS function capable of calculating various types of moving averages, which can be used (like all custom functions) in combination with the rest of the integrated functions. offered by Google spreadsheets.
Great post from Pablo Felip (@pfelipm) on calculating moving averages in Google Sheets. As part of this Pablo has developed and shared the MEDIAMOVIL() custom function he has developed in Google Apps Script. Clicking through to the source code on Github Pablo has also shared lots of advice on developing custom functions for Google Sheets including using the contextual help features available in custom functions as well as handling parameters and throwing appropriate error messages to the user.
This is a GAS library for copying the rich text with the text styles from Google Document to Google Spreadsheet or from Google Spreadsheet to Google Document using Google Apps Script (GAS). And, also the rich texts in the cells can be converted to HTML format.
Nice little helper library for copying rich text formatting from Google Docs and Sheets. You can view the project README for information on the formats that are currently supported. Personally, the inclusion of the RichTextToHTMLForSpreadsheet method looks particularly useful for converting rich text formatting in Google Sheets cells to HTML for mail merge applications.
This is a sample script for disabling the buttons put on Google Spreadsheet using Google Apps Script. When a script is run by clicking a button on Google Spreadsheet, there is the case that you don’t want to make users run the script in duplicate.
Nice little Google Apps Script snippet that prevents a function assigned to an image or drawing in Google Sheets from being run simultaneously. The clever bit is the code uses Google Apps Script to modify the function assigned to the button/image when it is running.
Last year I published a tutorial on how to sync data between two Coda docs and data between two Google Sheets. What was missing from the tutorial was how to sync data between a Coda doc and a Google Sheet.
This article will show you how you can setup, train, and predict spreadsheet data with deep-learning framework Tensorflow.js. You don’t need to call REST APIs or use other 3rd parties storage and algorithm. All your data stays in your secure Google Sheet.
One popular method to get your students to learn is to categorise things or to put them in order. Here, we’re going to look at making a card sorting game, which could be used for both.
After joining Two Octobers this March, I was overjoyed to be able to focus on building tools that we can use to help grow client revenues. One tool that I had percolating in the back of my mind was a Google-Sheets-based Add-on for building and managing Google My Business Posts. Our team, codenamed “Skunkworks”, got to work and built our Add-On, AgencyAutomators – POSTS. While in the moment it felt like one small step for each of us, it felt like a huge leap for Two Octobers. We learned a ton along the way that I’ll be sharing with you here.
A very comprehensive guide on the challenges and solutions for developing Google Apps Script projects in teams. The post has lots of tips and tricks Noah and his team at Two Octobers learned along the way including hurdles overcome as part of the Add-on publication process. Follow the link for more details.
