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Compare MacBook Prices Worldwide with Google Sheets

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Looking to buy the new Macbook Pro with M3 chips? Wondering if it would be cheaper to purchase a Macbook in your local Apple store, or ask a friend who is travelling from Singapore or Japan to bring one for you? Here’s a Google Sheet that can help you compare prices of MacBooks in different countries. It takes the current prices of MacBooks from Apple online stores in different countries and converts them to a common currency (US Dollars). The exchange rates are fetched directly from Google Finance so the prices will update automatically when the exchange rates change. How the Macbook Price Comparison Sheet Works I have written a Node.js script that fetches the current prices of MacBooks from the Apple website and writes them to Google Sheets. Here’s the code that scrapes the Apple website and parses the HTML to extract the prices. Get Macbook Prices from Apple Website Apple uses JSON-LD to embed structured pricing data in their web pages that can be easily parsed using che...
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Conditional Email Notifications with Google Forms - Route Responses to Different Email Addresses

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The Google Forms Email Notifications add-on lets you send Google Form responses in an email message as soon as a respondent submits the form. The email template can be customized to include the form answers or the form edit link. You can also set up conditional email notifications for Google Forms where the form responses are sent to different email addresses based on the form answers filled-in by the respondent. In the above example, we have a Google Form that asks the respondent to select the sessions they are interested in attending for an AI workshop. It is a mulitple choice checkbox question as the respondent can select one or more sessions. The form responses are then sent to different email addresses based on the sessions selected by the respondent. Set Up Conditional Email Notifications for Google Forms Install the Google Forms add-on and setup a new rule . Enable the Conditional Notifications option and add a new condition as shown in the screenshot. The first ru...
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How to Save Password Protected PDF Attachments from Gmail to Google Drive

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Credit card companies and banks often send their financial statements in the form of password-protected PDF files. These PDF attachments may be encrypted with passwords derived from the last four digits of your Social Security number, your birthdate, or any unique combination. If you are to open these password-protected PDF files, you’ll have to enter the password every time. You can permanently remove passwords from PDF files using Google Chrome but that’s a manual and time-consuming process especially if you have a large number of password-protected PDF attachments in your Gmail inbox. Important Note - This tutorial will only help you decrypt password-protected PDF files for which you know the password. You cannot use this method to unlock PDF files where you don’t know the password. Imagine the convenience of having an automated method to download all your password-protected PDF attachments from Gmail directly to Google Drive as unencrypted PDF documents. This would complet...
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How to Send Base64 Images in Email with Google Apps Script

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Base64-encoded images can be embedded directly inside HTML emails without having to host the image on a remote server. This offers several advantages: Avoids tracking - External images are often used by email marketers to track email opens . Reduced spam potential - Some email servers may reject emails that contain external images. No broken images - If the image is hosted on a remote server, it may not load if the server is down. Gmail, however, does not support base64 images in HTML emails. If you try to send an email with base64 images to a Gmail or Google Workspace account, the image will not be displayed in the email body but will be displayed as an attachment instead. The workaround is to convert the base64 image to a blob and then embed the blob in the email. We use a similar technique to embed base64 encoded images in emails sent from Mail Merge and Document Studio . The following Google Apps Script function will convert all base64 images in an HTML email to blobs and ...
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Monitor Your Stock Portfolio with Google Sheets and Receive Daily Email Reports

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I have a Stock tracker spreadsheet built inside Google Sheets that keeps track of my fictional stock portfolio. The stock prices in the Google Sheet are updated automatically using the GOOGLEFINANCE function . I would like to set up a daily trigger that runs every day at, say 4pm, and sends me an email with the screenshot of the spreadsheet. This way I can keep track the performance of my stocks without having to open the spreadsheet every day. Let’s see how this process can be easily automated with the help of Email Google Sheets add-on. Inside your Google Sheet, go to Extensions > Email Google Sheets > Open to launch the app. Click on the Create Workflow button to create a new automation workflow that will send you an email with the screenshot of the spreadsheet. Go to the Email step of the workflow and put the email address of the recipients in the To, Cc and Bcc fields. You can then add a custom subject and message in the email to include values from the spreadsheet. ...
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How to Mail Merge with Outlook and Google Sheets

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The Mail merge add-on for Gmail lets you send personalized emails to your contacts in bulk. You can pull file attachments from Google Drive and include them in the outgoing emails. The emails can be sent immediately or scheduled for sending at a later date and time. If you are an Outlook or Microsoft 365 user, you can still use Google Sheets to send personalized emails to multiple people at once with the help of Mail Merge. All you have to do is add your Outlook account to Gmail as an alias and the Mail Merge add-on will be able to send emails through your Outlook account. Generate an App Password for Outlook The first step is to generate an app password for your Outlook / Microsoft 365 account. Go to account.microsoft.com/security , sign-in with your Outlook account and choose Advanced security options . Scroll down to the App passwords section and click Create a new app password . Add your Outlook Account to Gmail Go to your Gmail account and choose Settings from...
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How to Extract Images from Google Docs and Google Slides

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Imagine you’re working with a lengthy Google Document, or a Google Slides presentation, and you need to extract all the embedded images from the text and save them as individual files. Extract Individual Images A simple solution to address this issue is as follows: convert your Google Document or Google Slide into a web page. Here’s how you can do it: Go to the “File” menu. Select the “Share” submenu and then choose “Publish to Web.” It will generate a public web page that contains all the images from your document or slide. You can simply right-click an image on the page and select the “Save Image” option download it to your local disk. What we have just discussed is a manual process but we can easily automate this with the help of Google Apps Script. Extract all Images from a Google Document Open your Google Document containing the images, go to the Extensions menu and choose Apps Script. Copy-paste the code below and run the saveGoogleDocsImages function to download all...
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