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This How.com.vn teaches you how to access Google's script editor in a desktop internet browser, and run code in the editor for testing purposes.
Things You Should Know
- Open a spreadsheet in Google Sheets and click the Tools tab.
- Select Script editor from the Tools menu.
- Enter your script and click the icon to run it.
Steps
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Open Google Sheets in your internet browser. Type sheets.google.com in your browser's address bar, and hit ↵ Enter or ⏎ Return on your keyboard.
Click a spreadsheet file. Find the spreadsheet you want to run a script on, and open it.Advertisement
Click the Tools tab. This button is on a tabs bar below the file name in the upper-left corner of your spreadsheet. It will open a drop-down menu.
Tap Script editor on the Tools menu. This will open the Google's browser-based script editor in a new tab.
Create your script in the script editor. You can type your script here, or delete everything on the page and paste code from your clipboard.- If you're looking for some useful scripts, Google offers a few basic suggestions in their developer guides.
Name your script project. Click the "Untitled project" heading in the upper-left corner of your window, and enter a title for your new script project in the "Edit Project Name" window.
Click theicon to run your script. This button is on a toolbar below the file name and tabs bar in the upper-left corner of your window. It will save and run the code in the script editor.- If you're prompted to authorize script testing, click the Review Permissions button, and Allow script testing in your account settings.
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1. Open Google Sheets.
2. Click a file.
3. Click the Tools tab.
4. Click Script editor.
5. Enter your script into the editor.
6. Click the Play/Run icon on the toolbar at the top.
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