Edit scripts respond on only one sheet of a workbook
An onEdit script built for one sheet ignores the other sheets in the same workbook, so only the first or last tab responds.
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
5 public reports · first reported 13 December 2019 · last reported 25 August 2026
What's going wrong
Owners of multi-tab Google Sheets workbooks write an onEdit script for one tab and find it works only on that tab, or that when two scripts exist only the last one runs.
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