pinyin conversions

The other day I posted about a Google Apps Script version of a Pinyin converter. I usually create google apps script versions of VBA functions, but this time, I’m creating a VBA version from GAS. […]

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Docs Specific

Large document performance

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 […]

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Docs Specific

Extracting images from a document

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 […]

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Sorting bookmarks in a document

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 […]

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From VBA to Google Apps Script

Scraperwiki data to Google Docs

There is also a Google Apps script version of  Getting data out of scraperWiki. It uses the mcpher library and the test data and examples can be found in this Google Document  There is a rest library entry to […]

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Google Docs

Google Docs

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 […]

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Getting started with pinyin helper

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 […]