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Apps Script

Random and fake test data in Sheets with Google Apps Script

Sometimes you need to generate some fake data for a spreadsheet. In this post I’ll cover a few utilities in 2 separate libraries that can help with this. Faker This is a node module to […]

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Google API

Connecting Google Sheets to APIs, and building apps with Retool

This is a repoduction of the tutorial, which can be found at https://tryretool.com/blog/google-sheets-app-tutorial/ Access the tutorial and documentation. Contents: Background Live demo Reading data from Google Sheets Displaying data in a table Creating a form […]

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Apps Script & Java Script

Using the People API with Apps Script

The BigQuiz app uses the People API to identify who is using it so that it can keep track of game and category scores. I could have used the Gplus api – which has an Apps Script advanced service, […]

Add-ons

Dicers

Dicers are a visual way of filtering rows on Sheets by selecting from lists of values that are present in selected columns.The Dicers add-on provides a simple and visual way of applying filters to data […]

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Add-ons

Dicers Pro and advanced features

Now available on Add-ons store Dicers are a visual way of filtering rows on Sheets by selecting from lists of values that are present in selected columns.The Dicers add-on provides a simple and visual way of […]

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Execution

Reading and writing Sheets from VBA

These articles are abridged from my book on Office to Apps migration. Going GAS, from VBA to Google Apps Script. Now available  from O’Reilly or Amazon. If you just want to transfer data between sheets and excel and back again, the […]