How to Force New Google Spreadsheets to refresh and recalculate?

Question

There were some codes written for this purpose but with the new add-ons they are no longer applicable.

Thanks in advance, Iddo

Answer 1

Quick, but manual updating

NOW(), TODAY(), RAND(), or RANDBETWEEN()

Press Backspace ← or Del on any empty cell, to immediately trigger a recalculation of formulas depending on NOW(), TODAY(), RAND(), or RANDBETWEEN() (in all Sheets of the whole Spreadsheet, as usual).

(If no empty cell is at hand, you can delete a filled cell instead and then undo that with Ctrl+z.)

INDIRECT()’s

INDIRECT()’s are unfortunately not updated like this by default.

You can update a range of cell(s) of such formulas by pasting the range on itself:

1. select range
2. Ctrl+c
3. Ctrl+v