Highlighting Row and Column of Selected Cell using Google Apps Script

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Highlighting Row and Column of Selected Cell using Google Apps Script

This is a sample script for highlighting the row and column of the selected cell using Google Apps Script. For this, the OnSelectionChange event trigger is used.

Demo

Sample script

Please copy and paste the following script to the script editor of Spreadsheet. And, please select a cell. By this, the script is run by the OnSelectionChange event trigger.

function onSelectionChange(e) {
  const range = e.range;
  const sheet = range.getSheet();
  const maxRows = sheet.getMaxRows();
  const maxColumns = sheet.getMaxColumns();
  sheet.getRange(1, 1, maxRows, maxColumns).setBackground(null);
  sheet.getRange(1, range.getColumn(), maxRows, 1).setBackground("yellow");
  sheet.getRange(range.getRow(), 1, 1, maxColumns).setBackground("yellow");
}

References

• Simple Triggers
• onSelectionChange(e)

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