Convert Paragraph To List Item In Google Docs Using Google App Script

How do you change a paragraph into a list item in Google Docs using Google App Script? To convert a paragraph into a list item using Google Docs identify first the paragraph you want to modify, then obtain the childIndex of where the paragraph is and finally insert the list item using insertListItem() function. Here’s how this process works going through step-by-step: Locate Paragraph To Change In your Google App Script code create a variable to capture the active document using DocumentApp.getActiveDocument() or open the document if you have the documentId using DocumentApp.openById(docId). ...

March 25, 2022 · 4 min · 795 words · Ryan Sheehy

Google Apps Script: Set Value Of Blank Cell

Perhaps the easiest way to assign a default value to a variable is to append the || conditional after referencing the variable. For example, after looping through an array and mapping the values to properties within an object, I needed to test whether the property had been assigned. As I use Google Spreadsheets to iterate through data imagine the following data set: A B C 1 Name Age Choice 2 Ryan 50 A 3 Sara 27 4 Jude 29 C Data set containing rows of data, except for one row with a blank “Choice” value. ...

November 13, 2015 · 3 min · 505 words · Ryan Sheehy