Referencing cells in tables on a Google Doc

Question

I'm trying to automatically format a table in a Google Doc cell by cell. Once I have a table stored in the variable table, I try to use getCell to reference the cell in the top left of this table, but it doesn't return the cell I'm after.

I noticed that in the Google Scripts reference, they note that to point to a cell, the correct usage is getCell(rowIndex, cellIndex). What does cellIndex refer to in this case, and does it relate to some sort of columnIndex?

Any pointers on this would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Editing a table in a Google Doc

Here's an example that edits all of the cell contents of a table selected by placing the cursor inside one of it's cells.

rowIndex goes from 0 to table.getNumRows()-1;

cellIndex goes from 0 to table.getRow(i).getNumCells()-1

function editTableAtCursor(){
  var doc=DocumentApp.getActiveDocument();
  var el=doc.getCursor().getElement().getParent().getParent().getParent();
  var table=el.asTable();
  var rows=table.getNumRows();
  for(var i=0;i<table.getNumRows();i++) {
    for(var j=0;j<table.getRow(i).getNumCells();j++) {
      table.getCell(i,j).editAsText().setText(Utilities.formatString('Row: %s Cell: %s',i,j));
    }
  }
}

• Table Class
• Example that replaces table with an Array

Answer 2

Yes, the cellIndex refers to columnIndex. Consider the below example

    function getCellVal() {

  var docBody=DocumentApp.getActiveDocument().getBody();
  var table=docBody.getTables()[0];
  Logger.log(table.getCell(0,0).getText())

}

Here, the value in Logger will retrieve the cell value in first row and first column of the table. the index for row and column starts from 0.

Hope this helps!.