Pimp up your Sheet – Programmatically!

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Create a Book inventory with Google Sheets & Apps Script

Here we’re going to make a simple book inventory, where we’ll be able to control the location of the books and also find out where a book is. This uses a mixture of GAS code and Sheets functions. We’ve got 3 sheets: Front page – This is what the user will see and use. In… Continue reading Create a Book inventory with Google Sheets & Apps Script

Automatically emailing info from a form submission

Here we’ll look at how to set up automatic emails, which contain information submitted by the Google Form user. The beauty of this is that the information is sent to you (and others) without you having to do anything and without you having to check the spreadsheet to see if there has been a submission.… Continue reading Automatically emailing info from a form submission

Request form – Sending automatic emails

One of the most useful things I’ve learnt to do with Google Apps Script, is to email people automatically when a form is submitted. It has countless uses and in this example, we have a user requesting a private class via a Google Form. The relevant parties will receive an email which will contain a short message… Continue reading Request form – Sending automatic emails

Sheets Functions – WEEKDAY, WORKDAY, NETWORKDAYS, EDATE, EOMONTH

Following on from my post on the basic date functions, let’s look at some really useful functions that work with dates, namely: WEEKDAY, WORKDAY, NETWORKDAYS, EDATE and EOMONTH, plus we’ll see an example with the CHOOSE function. With these we’ll: Find out the day of the week of a particular date Work out a deadline date Work… Continue reading Sheets Functions – WEEKDAY, WORKDAY, NETWORKDAYS, EDATE, EOMONTH

Google Sheets Functions – GOOGLETRANSLATE, DETECTLANGUAGE

Lots of people know about and have used Google Translate either on their phones or on the Google website but what they often don’t know is that there is a built-in function in Google Sheets, which will allow you to translate from one language to another, and even automatically recognise the language and translate it. So,… Continue reading Google Sheets Functions – GOOGLETRANSLATE, DETECTLANGUAGE

Google Sheets Functions – NOW, TODAY, DAY, MONTH, YEAR

In this post, we’re going to look at some of the basic date functions and in particular, how we can extract parts of a date or a time.  We’ll cover: NOW, TODAY, DAY, MONTH, YEAR, HOUR, MINUTE, and SECOND. Example 1 – Getting the current date and time We can add the current date and… Continue reading Google Sheets Functions – NOW, TODAY, DAY, MONTH, YEAR