Here’s a general purpose timer for wrapping functions without having to edit them to put timers around them. This is something I often have to do if tracking down performance problems, so I thought I’d […]
In Getting insights into Sheets performance I mentioned that I was taking a look under the covers of Sheets to see how performance is doing and introduced a useful function for timing stuff. The first […]
You all know that when you use getValues(), you’ll get an array of rows of data, each element of which is an array of columns. There are times that you’d rather have it the other […]
Since it’s almost time for Eurovision again, I thought I’d see if I could find something to do with predicting the result, rather than analyzing the results afterwards (as in this Eurovision results with crossfilter […]
Although there is a TRANSPOSE function in Sheets, you cant access sheets functions from within Apps Script. However, using Advanced Array functions it’s fairly easy to transpose an array of values. Let’s say we want […]
I’ve called this post ‘removing duplicate paragraphs, but actually it’s a bit more than that – it’s removing paragraphs using a filtering function to compare the current paragraph with the next. By default, it will […]
Here’s another little Docs annoyance that can easily be cleaned up with a little automation. If you are using headings in your document, and insert blank lines beside a heading, you end up with uneven […]
When creating heading levels in a document, it’s easy to get confused about which level a paragraph should be at. If you reduce a header level, the headings below need to be adjusted also, and […]
One of the concerns I have about add-ons is that the there is no context maintained between invocations. It’s the same thing with custom functions. What that means is that the document or spreadsheet structure […]
If you have a document or book manuscript, you may need to extract and attach figure references to inline images in a document. If you want to give them names associated with the chapter in […]
It’s pretty common to convert spreadsheet values to an array of JSON objects using the header row as the property keys, and you’ll find many examples of that around this site. It’s a little less […]
Let’s say you have a bunch of Google Documents with various images in them – say a logo or photographs – anything, that you’d like to replace with different images. Well, one way would be […]
DuckDuckGo has a pretty good api for getting short abstracts given a query. I figured that it might be nice to use this to demonstrate how the caching can be used to pass in lieu […]
Here’s how to sort bookmarks into position order in a document. We’ll use Advanced Array functions heavily here. First we get the bookmarks positions and the elements they refer to, and add a path to them to […]
You can get an example document which contains some sample pinyin here, and which you can copy and use to become familiar with this add-on, as well as read more about how pinyin works. Alternatively create […]
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