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Google sheet is one of my favorite Google App and I use it . Today I came across a video on “How to add a Timestamp in Google Docs“. It shows how to install a script which will add a timestamp automatically to last column. While this is a very good script, but I wanted to make it better.

So I did some tweaking and now you can specify the column where timestamp should  get inserted. You can specify the column which trigger the timestamp script. You can specify the sheet where the script should run.

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Below is the code:

/*Updated and maintain by internetgeeks.org*/

function onEdit(event)
{ 
  var timezone = "GMT-5";
  var timestamp_format = "MM-dd-yyyy"; // Timestamp Format. 
  var updateColName = "Email";
  var timeStampColName = "Date Sent";
  var sheet = event.source.getSheetByName('Sheet1'); //Name of the sheet where you want to run this script.


  var actRng = event.source.getActiveRange();
  var editColumn = actRng.getColumn();
  var index = actRng.getRowIndex();
  var headers = sheet.getRange(1, 1, 1, sheet.getLastColumn()).getValues();
  var dateCol = headers[0].indexOf(timeStampColName);
  var updateCol = headers[0].indexOf(updateColName); updateCol = updateCol+1;
  if (dateCol > -1 && index > 1 && editColumn == updateCol) { // only timestamp if 'Last Updated' header exists, but not in the header row itself!
    var cell = sheet.getRange(index, dateCol + 1);
    var date = Utilities.formatDate(new Date(), timezone, timestamp_format);
    cell.setValue(date);
  }
}

Watch below video on how to use this code:

Steps to follow:

• Go to Tools -> Script editor
• Delete code if there is any.
• Copy above mentioned code and paste it into the script editor.
• Change the code as instructed in the video.
• Click save.
• Give the project a name (e.g. “Last Updated”)
• Done.

I hope that you find this tutorial useful. Please share this with your friends and if you have any queries then feel free to shoot them in the comment section.