Create a Tab for Every Month in Google Sheets with Apps Script

0:00 So you want to create a tab for every month in Google Sheets. We're going to do this with Apps Script automatically or programmatically. Go up to extensions, Apps Script . When you do that, you'll have function , my function . We are going to write this whole function ourselves right here, right now. We're going to call this create every month. And we're going to need a couple of variables. Variable month equals zero. This is actually January. All the months are. numbered 0 through 11. Variable year equals 2025. You can change this to 2026 or 2027, whatever your year is in now. We're going to create a loop, a while loop. While month is less than 12, we're going to do something. We're going to be executing, creating a new sheet. Well, how do we loop back through this? Get Sheets Wrapped 2024 | Your Year in Google Sheets What's Better Than Google Sheets? Create Tab For Every Day of the Year Big Year

0:45 We're going to have at the end month plus plus. So inside of this loop, We're going to first have this month as zero. Check it in this while. Do whatever we want it to do and then at the end we're going to have it iterate or add one. Add one from zero is one. Is that less than 12? Yes. Keep going. If not, stop. So iterate through? We're going to create a sheet. We need variable ss equals spreadsheet app dot get active Spreadsheet , variable SS dot insert sheet. And we need a sheet name here. The sheet name we're going to get from a date, so variable sheet name equals utilities dot format date. Can I Automatically Rename a Sheet based on a Date? Getting Started Coding in Apps Script Big Year - a Whole Year in One Google Sheets Tab SHEETS and SHEET NEW FORMULAS in Google Sheets

1:31 We need a date here. So let's create a variable date. Variable date equals new date, year from up here, this variable, , month from the looping variable that we started at zero, and one, so we're just gonna name it the first of the month. So we're gonna put that variable here, format date. We can put a time zone if you want, GMT plus zero, whatever your time zone is, and we need to format this date in text. In our particular case, right now, I'm going to choose three M's, or months. That's going to be the first three letters of the month that we're creating this sheet name . And I'm only going to select one D. That's just a single D. At the bottom here, we just have to delete this variable. We just have to run this here. Command S, Control S if you're on a non computer. Richard Asks: Copy Template Tab and Rename to Date Every Week Writer Better Prompts How to Format Timestamp to Day and Month How to Show Month Name, And Not Whole Date, in Google Sheets

2:18 Mac or save project up here and drive and let's run it and see what happens. You may have to authorize this once you execute it for the very first time, but every time after that, you don't have to, let's go back to our sheet and see that we have every single month, January 1st through December 1st, 12 of them already created in one click. But let's say we want to actually include the year in the sheet name . Let's add to this format , hyphen, Y, Y, Y, Y. That's four Ys. Save it, and we can actually run this again. Yeah, run this again. It's executed, and we can go back and see. January 1st, 2025, all the way to December 1st, 2025. Can I Automatically Rename a Sheet based on a Date? 80 Years In 1 Spreadsheet How to Trigger Macros Daily Automate Adding Prefix in Cell

3:04 If you want to change this one to two or five or seven, whatever you want to, probably not 30 or 31, because those are not dates in February, let's say, or every month. But there you go. You can now create a tab for every single month of the year of any year you want, even a year thousand, if you wish, make sure you subscribe here to better sheets on YouTube. For more automations, more awesomeness, make your sheets way better, make your life better in Google Sheets. Get Sheets Wrapped 2024 | Your Year in Google Sheets Google Sheets Interface Changes Create Tab For Every Day of the Year Create an Automated Extended Weekly Calendar View in Google Sheets