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How to automatically record a daily history of values in a Google Spreadsheet

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Google Spreadsheet does a great job of recording a change history for edits that you make. But what if you want to have a spreadsheet with values that change based on some formula, and you would like to keep a history of those values. For example, perhaps you keep a spreadsheet for your spending budget, or your investment portfolio. You could open the spreadsheet each day and copy the values into a new sheet, but it would be nice to automate this. Fortunately this is fairly simple using Google Apps Script. Let's suppose you have a spreadsheet with various tabs and values that you want to keep. The simplest way to get started is to create a new sheet, which we will call "History". Each row in this new sheet will represent the values that you want to save each day, with a new row for each day. So column A will be the date, and columns B onwards will be values. In this history sheet the first row will be headings for your values, and the second row will be the current va