# Button (Timer)

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/button-timer/21367>\
**Category:** Ask for Help\
**Created:** [January 18, 2021, 7:08pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/button-timer/21367 "2021-01-18T19:08:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Drearystate](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/drearystate/32/49605_2.png) [@Drearystate](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Drearystate)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2021, 7:20pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/button-timer/21367/2 "2021-01-18T19:20:51Z")

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Not within Glide. This currently can only be done in google scripts inside google sheets.

> [@Scripts, scripts, scripts!](https://community.glideapps.com/t/scripts-scripts-scripts/18965/54):
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> How are you calling the function? It should be something like format\_sheet('Sheet 1') I actually use this within a wrapper function, something like this: function on\_sheet\_change(event) { var sheetname = event.source.getActiveSheet().getName(); format\_sheet(sheetname); } That’s a simple example, normally I’ll have a an if/then/else block that first checks the sheetname, and then only calls the format\_sheet() function for selected sheets. That was the long answer. The short answer is th…

Here is a forum discussion witthe a script that can help.

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