A colleague had a ton of student work that she needed names in the titles. She had the fear that she would have to open each document and manually change every title.
Never fear! Google Apps Script to the rescue!
If there is a repeatable task, it is definitely a safe bet that it can be automated with a little bit of code. In this tutorial I am demonstrating an example of exactly that.
function copyTitles() {
var folderId = '<<<PUT THE NAME OF THE FOLDER WITH YOUR DOCUMENTS HERE>>>';
var folder = DriveApp.getFolderById(folderId);
var files = folder.getFilesByType(MimeType.GOOGLE_DOCS);
while (files.hasNext()) {
var file = files.next();
var fileId = file.getId();
var fileName = file.getName();
DocumentApp.openById(fileId)
.getBody()
.insertParagraph(0, fileName)
.setAlignment(DocumentApp.HorizontalAlignment.CENTER)
.setHeading(DocumentApp.ParagraphHeading.HEADING1);
}
}What are some of the recurring tasks that you wish you could automate? Leave me some comments below!