{"id":15594,"date":"2023-08-16T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.autooffice.co.kr\/blog\/2023\/08\/16\/deleting-labels-in-apps-script\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T17:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T08:23:10","slug":"deleting-labels-in-apps-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.autooffice.co.kr\/en\/blog\/2023\/08\/16\/deleting-labels-in-apps-script\/","title":{"rendered":"Deleting a Label (First Element of 2D Array) with 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 delete labels in Apps Script. We will learn how to access a specific sheet in a Google Spreadsheet, retrieve data, remove the first row (which usually contains the column labels), and log the remaining data.<\/p>\n

    Code<\/h2>\n
    function deleteLabel() {\n  const SS = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet()\n  const T_SHEET6 = SS.getSheetByName('\uc2dc\ud2b86')\n\n  const data = T_SHEET6.getDataRange().getValues()\n  let dataSlice = data.slice(1)\n  Logger.log(dataSlice)\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n
    Code Explanation<\/h2>\n
    The code defines a function named deleteLabel<\/code>. It starts by getting the active spreadsheet using SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet()<\/code>. Then, it retrieves a specific sheet named ‘\uc2dc\ud2b86’ using SS.getSheetByName('\uc2dc\ud2b86')<\/code>.<\/p>\n
    The getDataRange()<\/code> method is used to get the range of data in the sheet. The getValues()<\/code> method is called on the data range to retrieve the values as a two-dimensional array.<\/p>\n
    Next, the slice()<\/code> method is used to remove the first row (which contains the labels) from the data array. The modified data is stored in the dataSlice<\/code> variable.<\/p>\n
    Finally, the remaining data (without the labels) is logged to the Logger using Logger.log(dataSlice)<\/code>.<\/p>\n
    Example<\/h2>\n
    Let’s say we have a Google Spreadsheet with a sheet named ‘\uc2dc\ud2b86’ that contains the following data:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
    Column A<\/th>\nColumn B<\/th>\nColumn C<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
    Label 1<\/td>\nLabel 2<\/td>\nLabel 3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Data 1<\/td>\nData 2<\/td>\nData 3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Data 4<\/td>\nData 5<\/td>\nData 6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n
    When the deleteLabel<\/code> function is executed, it will log the following remaining data:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
    Data 1<\/td>\nData 2<\/td>\nData 3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Data 4<\/td>\nData 5<\/td>\nData 6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n
    AI Prompt<\/h2>\n
    Write a function that deletes the labels in a specific sheet of a Google Spreadsheet. Retrieve the data range of the sheet, remove the first row (labels) using slice method<\/span>, and log the remaining data.<\/p>\n
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    In this blog post, we will explore how to delete labels in Apps Script. We will learn how to access a specific sheet in a Google Spreadsheet, retrieve data, remove the first row (which usually contains the column labels), and log the remaining data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15601,"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":[512,69,540,7],"class_list":["post-15594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spreadsheet","category-apps-script","tag-ai-assisted","tag-script","tag-slice","tag-spreadsheet"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.3","language":"en","enabled_languages":["ko","en"],"languages":{"ko":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true}}},"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t