Automatic Sorting on Sheets

Question

I\'m trying to figure out how to sort my sheet alphabetically automatically. Whenever I put a new entry under columns A-C, I would like it to automatically sort together wit

Answer 1

You can also create function and sort by column name. Enter the column name as a string when invoking the function.

 var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var sheet = ss.getActiveSheet();
var range = sheet.getRange("A1:F30");
var values = range.getValues();

var sortByCol = function Sort(sort) {
      var sort = sort.toLowerCase();
      for (var i=1; i <= range.getNumColumns(); i++) {
        if (String(values[0][i]).toLowerCase() === sort) {
          range.sort({column: i+1, ascending: false});
           break;
        }
      }  
}

Answer 2

Spreadsheets are easy to sort from a script and a script can easily be triggered by a spreadsheet "event".

onEdit is one of these events that should fit your demand. Doc here and here.

then the sort process is shown in the doc, I reproduce the code below :

var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
 var sheet = ss.getSheets()[0];
 var range = sheet.getRange("A1:C7");

 // Sorts by the values in the first column (A)
 range.sort(1);

 // Sorts by the values in the second column (B)
 range.sort(2);

 // Sorts descending by column B
 range.sort({column: 2, ascending: false});

 // Sorts descending by column B, then ascending by column A
 // Note the use of an array
 range.sort([{column: 2, ascending: false}, {column: 1, ascending: true}]);

 // For rows that are sorted in ascending order, the "ascending" parameter is
 // optional, and just an integer with the column can be used instead. Note that
 // in general, keeping the sort specification consistent results in more readable
 // code. We could have expressed the earlier sort as:
 range.sort([{column: 2, ascending: false}, 1]);

 // Alternatively, if we wanted all columns to be in ascending order, we would use
 // the following (this would make column 2 ascending)
 range.sort([2, 1]);
 // ... which is equivalent to
 range.sort([{column: 2, ascending: true}, {column: 1, ascending: true}]);