Html formatting in google sheets

Formatting

Google Sheets has many ways to format and style a spreadsheet.

Why format and style your spreadsheet?

• Make it easier to read and understand
• Make it more presentable

Styling is about changing the looks of cells, such as changing colors, font, font sizes, borders, number formats, and so on.

The most used styling functions are:

• Colors
• Fonts
• Borders
• Number formats
• Gridlines

There are two ways to access the styling commands in Google Sheets:

1. The Ribbon
2. Format menu

Note: Formatting can be applied to any range.

Read more about the Ribbon and the menu in the Google Sheets overview chapter.

Styling Commands in Ribbon

The Ribbon provides many formatting options such text and border coloring.

Styling Commands in Format menu

You can also select any cell or a range of cells and then click on the Format menu in the menu bar:

Example

In this example, different formatting options have been applied to range A1:B3.

Chapter summary

Formatting is used to make spreadsheets more readable. There are many ways to add styles. The most common ones are; Color, Font, Number format and Gridlines.

I have been looking for a solution to convert a database I have with HTML formatting in one of the columns to its "normal" text equivalency in google sheets. A lot of the solutions I've found dealt with writing programs to do this or using Excel, so they unfortunately didn't pertain well enough.

For example in one of my columns I have;

Fast ( This character deals damage before non-Fast characters in combat.)

But I would like to be able to have a somewhat streamlined solution to convert the above to:

Fast (This character deals damage before non-Fast characters in combat.)

tehhowch

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asked Apr 1, 2017 at 20:30

AFAIK, with Google Sheet API, you can only format text within a cell. As mentioned in documentation, conditional formatting lets you format cells so that their appearance changes dynamically according to the value they contain, or to values in other cells.

You may want to request new feature here.

answered Apr 2, 2017 at 9:28

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I am experiencing issues with Google Spreadsheet.

The thing is that me and my colleagues are using one spreadsheet as a table for translations, there is a column for English and then German and French and we have specific piece of text in each row for translation.

The thing is that we need to translate pieces of text with HTML tags like

Translate this please

There are actually more HTML tags than that and my colleagues are not really "HTML compatible" so my question is if there is some possibility to hide those html tags for them and make them only visible to me or well any method that would make it easier. Of course there is a possibility to copy those pieces of text without HTML formatting and then just format the final translation again, but it would take an awful lot of time.

I am kindly open to all suggestions and thank you in advance!

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asked Mar 12, 2013 at 15:10

Here is how to remove the HTML tags with Google Spreadsheets:

• =RegexReplace( A1, "<\/\w+>|<\w+.*?>", "" ) where A1 is a cell containing HTML

Note

• For every HTML tag in A1, A1 must have both the open < and the close >
• The plaintext (non-HTML) should avoid < and > because it could cause false positives.

Without doing a word-for-word translation, it is unlikely that you can take the translated text and inject the original HTML programmically. This is because some words translate into multiple words and sentence structure can change when translating.

answered Jul 11, 2015 at 0:26

How do I add HTML to Google Sheets?

Add HTML, CSS, or JavaScript code to your site.

On a computer, open a site in new Google Sites..

At the right, click Insert. Embed. ... .

Click Embed code..

Add your code, then click Next. JavaScript code must be within

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