Category: Sheets

Questionnaires – Automatically send feedback to individuals

It’s common to use questionnaires at the end of a course to get feedback on the course and teacher. When you have a lot of teachers, it can be hard work analysing that feedback and splitting into the different teachers. Here we’re going to look at how we can automatically send the individual feedback to… Continue reading Questionnaires – Automatically send feedback to individuals

Create a Placement Test with Google Forms & Sheets

Students who want to study a language at a language academy, have to do a placement test, which confirms their current level in that language and then tells the tester in which level they should be placed. Here we’re going to see how a combination of Google Forms and Sheets, the functions VLOOKUP and ARRAYFORMULA and conditional formatting,… Continue reading Create a Placement Test with Google Forms & Sheets

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