I have a google docs created with App Script for which I am trying to place my cursor after a specific word in order to insert some content there.
When I just insert the content it inserts it at the end of the document. How can I find the specific word, set the cursor at the end of this word and then insert my content at this specific place ?
Please help me out !
You can achieve it by calling Document.getCursor(). A thing to note is that this only works in bound scripts.
A script can only access the cursor of the user who is running the script, and only if the script is bound to the document.
Here's the example from the documentation:
// Insert some text at the cursor position and make it bold.
var cursor = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument().getCursor();
if (cursor) {
// Attempt to insert text at the cursor position. If the insertion returns null, the cursor's
// containing element doesn't allow insertions, so show the user an error message.
var element = cursor.insertText('ಠ‿ಠ');
if (element) {
element.setBold(true);
} else {
DocumentApp.getUi().alert('Cannot insert text here.');
}
} else {
DocumentApp.getUi().alert('Cannot find a cursor.');
}
Apps Script provides different ways to insert text, add a paragraph, insert text, add text ... It depends on the purpose of your script. In any case, you should check @Yuri's comment to better understand how Apps Script works.
