To prepare an exam, I have to learn coding using google docs rather than using an IDE. It may seem idiot or impratical but the teacher really insists on that. It seems that is the same thing as Goo...

I have to generate labels from a list of user data stored in a spreadsheet. Right now I get everything working nicely except that when I output more than 16 items (the number of labels per page) I ...

Very oddly, there seems to be no way of setting Google Document links to open in a new window. (target="_blank"). When publishing a Google Doc and using the embed functionality, an iframe snippet ...

I need an example of how to modify an existing document with existing text in Google Docs via API. The documentation only shows how to insert and delete text, but not how to update. Have been looki...

I have already implemented collaborative editing in quill by using @teamwork/sharedb and @teamwork/sharedb-mongo adapter to store changes in the backend NodeJS . However I am still in a dilemma a...

I had some old code that worked great 5 years ago in taking a Google Form and filling in a pre-designed template from the information. I haven't needed to use it in awhile, but now I have a similar...

I want Javascript regex for extracting spreadsheet ID and sheet ID from google sheets URL. The URL for sheets.google.com spreadsheet looks like: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QOKbrUz7AWUw...

Is it possible for a Google Docs add-on to count word per heading (section)? The following image shows what I want. Is there a way to display this kind of word count information in a sidebar or...

I would like to programmatically edit my Google Doc externally via a Google Chrome extension or a simple JavaScript and see the changes live (in real-time) in the Google Doc. When this question cam...

I'm writing a Chrome extension that captures the user text selection and sends the selected text to Google search. manifest.json { "manifest_version": 2, "name": "Selection Extension", "descr...

For setting up a letterhead style layout in Google Docs, we find it handy to put a logo in the header section. However, when the Google Doc is downloaded as a PDF, the image is over-compressed, mak...

I've created a script that, when deployed as a web app, asks the user for some input, and creates and writes to a Google document. Apparently, downloading the Google document from the script is not...

In google docs one can easily add headings and link to them from inside of the document. But when the heading text changes, the link text does not change. Is there a way to change that behavior or ...

I had a wild idea that I could build a website blog for an unsophisticated user friend using Google Drive Documents to back it. I was able to create a contentService that compiles a list of documen...

I'm trying to screen double quotes in regular expression on Google Sheets and there's no luck. A1 cell text = some "name" My formula =REGEXEXTRACT(A1;"\"(.*)\"") But Google Docs thinks that i'm ...

I am using following code to display pdf using google with iframe.. It's working fine. But I want to disable "pop-out" option (which on click opening my pdf in new tab with google docs) shown on ri...

I calculated a duration between two times, e.g. between 9:00 am and 11:00 am. So far so good. Now I need to decide if this duration is less 6 hours. I do remember that this was pain in the s in ex...

I'm looking for an online, collaborative database schema designer. App is for MySQL specifically, but generic DB designer is fine too. It's important that it can handle revisions (history of change...

How can I convert a Google Docs, which contains images and tables, into a Markdown file which can be published as a post using Jekyll? Is it possible to first export the Google Docs into a PDF and...

I'm trying to indent a paragraph with Google Apps Script - just a normal indent. It should be the easiest thing in the world but is proving to be extremely frustrating. The below is the relevant se...

I need to simulate keyboard in google docs with using JavaScript to be able print or erase characters on cursor position. Unfortunately solutions with simulating keypress event didn't work for me. ...

As of 04/20/2015 the Google Documents API v3.0 is deprecated, and will no longer function function on and after this date. So anyone using this API must switch to use the Google Drive API. I have ...

I am creating a Google Docs add-on, and one of the features I am trying to create is a feature that reduces the number of empty lines between two paragraphs. So, for instance, if I have 2 paragraph...

I have a document in Google Docs which has a lot of images numbered sequentially. Every time I add a new image in the middle of the document I have to renumber all the image numbers along the docum...

Can you produce a Python example of how to download a Google Sheets spreadsheet given its key and worksheet ID (gid)? I can't. I've scoured versions 1, 2 and 3 of the API. I'm having no luck, I can...