Get location of selected cell in Google Sheets and output to another cell

Question

I have a spreadsheet in Google Sheets where I'm trying to output the coordinates of the selected cell to another cell. Imagine a 10x10 grid beginning in Cell A1. If I select A1 then the coordinates (1, 1) are outputted to a cell (let's say L1). If I then selected B4, the coordinates (4, 2) would be in L1. It's important for this to update every time a new cell is selected. How might I do this?

Answer 1

Given your goal, I recommend you simply make each cell in your win-loss table a hyperlink to a separate file that contains the details of the game.

Something like:

=hyperlink("http://example.com","W")

Replace http://example.com with the path to the specific Google Doc you create for the details of each game summary.

If you don't have enough detail to warrant it's own individual file / GoogleDoc, then you could just insert a note (not a comment ) if you have just a little bit of data about each game. Or if you have a little more details a middle ground solution would be to add a table where the columns are the data fields for each game and the rows are the individual games.

Otherwise, I think you will have to get into scripting to accomplish what you describe. And given your situation, I would not recommend that approach because, in my opinion, you have better options available that are simpler to accomplish your objective.