Learning Google Apps Script

Chapter 2. Creating Basic Elements

In the previous chapter, you learned about Google Apps Script (GAS) and how to create a script project. In this chapter, you will learn how to create a clickable button, a custom menu, a message box, a sidebar and dialogs, as well as how to debug your script. We will use Sheets for the first two tasks and Docs for all the other tasks.

Creating a clickable button

In the previous chapter, you learned how to open the script editor in Google Sheets. For this task, open the script editor in a newly created or any existing Google Sheet and follow these steps:

1. Select cell B3 or any other cell. Click on Insert and select Drawing..., as shown in the following screenshot:
2. A drawing editor window will open. Click on the