Google Apps Hacks

46 GOOGLE APPS HACKS

To add this code as bookmarklet, you must compress the JavaScript into a single line, removing

most spacing, comments, and post it on a web page as a link so you can drag it to your bookmark

bar. You can nd the bookmarklet at http://blogoscoped.com/googleappshacks/bookmarklets.

html—just drag and drop the link into your bookmarks collection. To easily nd a bookmarklet when

you need it, consider adding it to your link toolbar, or creating a special “bookmarklets” folder in

your bookmarks.

Now that you have the bookmarklet, you can run it when you edit your document, as shown in

Figure 2-18. Once clicked, a new linked list appears before your rst Header 2. Clicking the Create

ToC bookmarklet again updates the list in case your headers changed in the meantime. You can then

save the document and publish it for others to see.

Everyone with editing rights for your document (including you) will see an editor instead of a normal web page

at the URL that you used to publish the document. To see the same plain HTML page others see, log out of

your Google Account by clicking “Sign out” at the top right of Google Docs, or temporarily switch to another

browser with which you didn’t log in to Google.

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You can also get creative, and write bookmarklets that do other things to your documents. For

instance, the following JavaScript—with spacing and line breaks ...