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Learning Google Apps Script
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Learning Google Apps Script

by Ramalingam Ganapathy
March 2016
Beginner to intermediate
232 pages
4h 29m
English
Packt Publishing
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Accessing Sheet, cell, range, and offset

A Google Sheet's spreadsheet has one or more Sheets or tabs in it. Sheets are indexed from left to right starting from 0. For example, the left-most Sheet is referred to by the index 0, the next one by 1, and so on. In GAS, we can refer to a Sheet by its index or by its name.

For example:

  • The getSheets() method returns an array of Sheet objects. From the array, we can refer to an individual Sheet by its index.
  • The getSheetByName("Contacts") function returns a Sheet object with the name Contacts.

In Google Sheets, column label starts from the letter A, and is counted in a programmatic point of view, from left to right starting with the number 1. For example, column A is 1, B is 2, and so on. Rows are identified ...

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