I would like to replace two carriage returns (\n\n) with a carriage return and a tab (\n\t) in Google Docs (regular document NOT a spreadsheet). If I enter \n\t in replace with the simple text, as ...

I want to make a quiz for students regarding basic programming using Google Forms. The challenge is that I can not find any Add On how add code snippets to the questions, like it is here in S...

I am trying to migrate a load of documentation which was written in markdown into a Google Doc so it can be used by our marketing department. Is there a mechanism using appscript/ Google Docs Api...

I want to change lines of this form: one line find text into this a pair of lines of this form: first line of replace text second line of replace text I know that one can search for a newline...

We work using Google Drive, Docs, etc. Background of the problem: One of our departments needs to print hundreds of emails to file away, with page information included. We currently have a Google...

We recently switched our team to Google Apps and with that, everyone got a Google Apps account . However, for those of us with a GMail account as well, this makes it so that bringing up Gmail in yo...

I'm trying to download a file from google drive in a script, and I'm having a little trouble doing so. The files I'm trying to download are here. I've looked online extensively and I finally ...

Google Docs has a "feature" that sometimes converts four spaces to one tab. Copying and pasting text does not solve this problem, because the spaces in that text are converted to tabs automaticall...

So I have encountered a problem in the application I am writing using google spreadsheets and app-script. I have put together a step by step guid to reproduce it. Summary: any script that uses Spr...

I used to copy code from Visual Studio Code (VSC) and paste it into Google Docs on Google Drive without any issues, preserving the indentation and styles. However, in the past three months, a...

Would there be a way to export comments from Google Docs so that the comments show up in a Google Sheets doc in one column and the highlighted text from the Google Doc shows up in the column next t...

I have made a guide (or something like a tutorial) about my tool to share with my company. I used Google Docs to do that, and I would like to add links to open video guides. I want to know a way to...

I'm using Google Forms (a Google Doc spreadsheet with an automatically generated form that the user can fill in to submit their details) and would like to track the submission of the form as a virt...

Given a "normal document" in Google Docs/Drive (e.g. paragraphs, lists, tables) which contains external links scattered throughout the content, how do you compile a list of links present using Goog...

function createAndSendDocument() { // Create a new document with the title 'Hello World' var ui = DocumentApp.getUi(); var response1 = ui.prompt('What should be Name of your Document', ui.ButtonSet...

Google Docs now supports dropdown inputs (Insert > Dropdown). I am using Apps Script to access a Google Docs, and would like to get the value of a drop down. I have read Get Google "pills&q...

I have created a Google Survey and I want to be able to pass URL parameters into the survey so that I can track where responses are coming from. Ideally these URL parameters will be populated into ...

I have several scripts in Google Docs spreadsheets that use MailApp.sendEmail to send e-mails incorporating data from the spreadsheets. They've all worked marvelously for years. About 2 weeks ago, ...

Is there an easy way to remove the line breaks within each cell? Each cell on column E, has extra line that I am having to manually remove, any easy to remove all.

I'm a teacher. I want a list of all the students who commented on the essay I assigned, and what they said. The Drive API stuff was too challenging for me, but I figured I could download them as a ...

How can I edit Google Drive text documents using Emacs and mirror my changes back to the Google Doc? I found a Google command line program, as well as something called gclient, which is part of Em...

I have always used the insertText() function, but now I want to write a link in my google docs. The ideal would be to be able to write in HTML, but I don't know how.. it seems that it is not possib...

In the google spreadsheet, I have a list called "ID_list_Google_doc", the list created from D3 to D (D3:D), which consists of a multitude of google doc ids. Each google doc id is unique a...

When I upload PDF to Google Docs (using Python's gdata library), I get link to the document: >>> e.GetAlternateLink().href Out[14]: 'http://docs.google.com/a/my.dom.ain/fileview id=<ve...

I am working with Google documents that contain hundreds of empty paragraphs. I want to remove these blank lines automatically. In LibreOffice Writer you can use the Find & Replace tool to re...