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 […]
Sometimes you need to make up some random data for a sheet or a docs table just for testing in some volume. I use this snippet to generate random data in the right shape. You’ll […]
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 […]
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 […]
Most of the material concerning Google Apps Script on this site is about Google Spreadsheets. You can also use GAS to extend Google Documents. There is an exciting new capability called add-ons Here’s an add-on […]
In this post about using the scraperwiki API I covered how to get a list of publicly available scraperWiki data straight into Excel and Google Apps Script. Now you can get the associated data too with just […]
Ive been using Google Docs as well as Excel for a while now, and certainly Excel is more comfortable a user experience. However it’s clear that Google Docs offer a great opportunity to offer services […]
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