What do you do when you’re running a Google App Script and you encounter the following error in the Execution Log area? Check the libraries you have attached to your project on the left-hand side and see if they are correctly referencing the versions you need from them to operate your code properly. Otherwise, if …
If you’re working with data in Google Sheets you’ll soon come across a time when you will need to clean and format phone number data entries. To clean phone numbers in Google Sheets using the REGEXEXTRACT() function extract all the different fields according to the phone number entries and then combine them all into the …
How do you get the value from a column that is to the left of a VLOOKUP range? The VLOOKUP function is a powerful function that enables you to capture the value from a range, provided the value is to the right of the lookup range. For example, suppose you have the following data in …
How do you format a cell that contains text like 1st Jan 2022 into a cell that Google Sheets can recognize as a date cell? There are certain types of date formats that can prevent the automatic import of data into Google Sheets into dates. One recent data type I had to deal with was …
How do you sort a range containing dates in Google Sheets? Sorting a data set in columns or rows containing date data in Google Sheets can easily be done by highlighting the range and then clicking on Data > Sort Range > Advanced range sorting options, as shown below: If the Sort Range option is …
The SWITCH() function in Google Sheets is handy when dealing with multiple criteria based on a single result. The SWITCH() function takes at least 3 parameters, with the first parameter being the value to evaluate, the second and third parameter representing a pair of combined cases and values. There’s also an optional final parameter that …