{"id":15560,"date":"2023-08-11T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.autooffice.co.kr\/blog\/2023\/08\/11\/copying-a-sheet-to-a-specific-spreadsheet-in-apps-script\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T18:47:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:47:46","slug":"copying-a-sheet-to-a-specific-spreadsheet-in-apps-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.autooffice.co.kr\/en\/blog\/2023\/08\/11\/copying-a-sheet-to-a-specific-spreadsheet-in-apps-script\/","title":{"rendered":"Copying a Sheet to a Specific Spreadsheet in Apps Script"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is a corrected post after AI explains the code included in the book “Google Apps Script 101: Building Work Automation For Free”<\/a>. Added a strikethrough<\/s> when editing what AI has written, and added color<\/span> when edited by author<\/p>\n

Table of Contents<\/h2>\n
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  1. Summary<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Code<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Code Explanation<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Example<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. AI Prompt<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Summary<\/h2>\n

    In this blog post, we will explore how to copy a sheet to a specific spreadsheet using Apps Script. We will learn how to retrieve the active spreadsheet, get a specific sheet by name, open a specific spreadsheet by its ID, and copy the sheet to the target spreadsheet.<\/p>\n

    Code<\/h2>\n
    function copyTabToSpecificSheet() {\n  const SS = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();\n  const T_SHEET2 = SS.getSheetByName('Sheet2');\n  const SS_byId = SpreadsheetApp.openById('ID'); \n\n  T_SHEET2.copyTo(SS_byId);\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n
    Code Explanation<\/h2>\n
    The code defines a function named copyTabToSpecificSheet<\/code>. Inside the function, it retrieves the active spreadsheet using SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet()<\/code>. It then gets a specific sheet named “Sheet2” using getSheetByName()<\/code> method and assigns it to the T_SHEET2<\/code> variable.<\/p>\n
    The function also opens a specific spreadsheet using its ID with SpreadsheetApp.openById()<\/code> and assigns it to the SS_byId<\/code> variable.<\/p>\n
    Finally, it copies the T_SHEET2<\/code> sheet to the target spreadsheet using the copyTo()<\/code> method.<\/p>\n
    Example<\/h2>\n
    Let’s say we have a master spreadsheet with multiple sheets, and we want to copy the “Sales” sheet to another spreadsheet named “Sales Reports”. We can use the following code:<\/p>\n
    function copySalesSheetToReports() {\n  const masterSS = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();\n  const salesSheet = masterSS.getSheetByName('Sales');\n  const reportsSS = SpreadsheetApp.openById('SalesReportsID'); \n\n  salesSheet.copyTo(reportsSS);\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n
    This code retrieves the active spreadsheet, gets the “Sales” sheet, opens the “Sales Reports” spreadsheet by its ID, and copies the “Sales” sheet to the “Sales Reports” spreadsheet.<\/p>\n
    AI Prompt<\/h2>\n
    Write a function that copies a specific sheet to a target spreadsheet. Retrieve the active spreadsheet, get the desired sheet by name, open the target spreadsheet by its ID, and copy the sheet to the target spreadsheet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    In this blog post, we will explore how to copy a sheet to a specific spreadsheet using Apps Script. We will learn how to retrieve the active spreadsheet, get a specific sheet by name, open a specific spreadsheet by its ID, and copy the sheet to the target spreadsheet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,118],"tags":[512,69,537,539,7],"class_list":["post-15560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spreadsheet","category-apps-script","tag-ai-assisted","tag-script","tag-copyto","tag-openbyid","tag-spreadsheet"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["ko","en"],"languages":{"ko":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true}}},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autooffice.co.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autooffice.co.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autooffice.co.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autooffice.co.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autooffice.co.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15560"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.autooffice.co.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17238,"href":"https:\/\/www.autooffice.co.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15560\/revisions\/17238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autooffice.co.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autooffice.co.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autooffice.co.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autooffice.co.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}