Tools to work with plain-text guitar chord and tablature files. Highlight chords automatically, and transpose the song key easily.
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Overview
Guitar Chord Tools is a Google Docs Add-on that helps with editing plain text chord sheets like can be found on many internet sites.  

It's great that we can find chords and tablature so easily for so many of our favorite songs these days.  But too often the formatting on someone else's web site isn't quite the way you would have done it.  Or perhaps what they said was a Bb, you can tell was really a Gm7.  And who knows if that website will even be there tomorrow?  So it's nice to have a copy of your own stored in Google Docs.  Then you know you'll always have access, plus you can make your own corrections and annotations and format it exactly how you like, or even share it with the band to edit collaboratively.

But Google Docs lacks some of the great features that the tablature websites have, like automatically highlighting the chord names in a different color, and changing the key of all the chords with one click.  This Add-on brings those features to Google Docs.

Main features include:
* Automatic contextual chord name detection (Examples. C, G,  Am7,  F#maj7, E/F#, Gbmaj7b5, etc)
* Color chord highlighting, with selectable color
* Muscial key transposition
* Choose flats or sharps for enharmonic equivalents
* Optionally use Unicode  ‘♯’ and ‘♭’ symbols for sharps and flats
* Apply chord highlighting and key changes to entire document or just the portion selected

Hope you enjoy!

Permissions Required:
* View and manage documents that this application has been installed in
   -- Required to make edits to the doc you are looking at.
* View and manage data associated with the application
   -- This is for saving preferences (it remembers your last used highlight color for example).
* Allow this application to run when you are not present
   -- I'm not sure about this one.  Supposedly this has to do with OAuth token refreshing that Google does for all Add-ons.  Don't worry, my code definitely does not go highlighting chords and transposing your music while you aren't looking!
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Marc Phillips
June 20, 2026
It used to work fine, but - as people have pointed out - since June '26 it stopped working. The only option to choose from is "help". It'd be awesome if this got fixed as it saves a lot of time creating leadsheets!
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Chillest Them
July 9, 2026
Others are noticing the same thing that the plug-in no longer works. Disappointing since this worked great a few months ago.
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Shawn
June 3, 2026
Used to work perfectly, but as of June 3rd 2026, this add-on only shows 'help' in Extension the menu. Please fix. Thanks.
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Daniel S
June 10, 2026
Does not work anymore
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brian clinton
June 6, 2026
This app has no options other than "help". There is no functionality at all!
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Mark Angelo Lapada
July 6, 2026
used to work before, but now, it just displays help
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Justin Heldy Ricarte
June 16, 2026
Showing "help" only for options. Useless.
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Ryan Hughes
June 27, 2026
wish this still worked..
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Daniel O'Donnell
June 26, 2026
showing help only for options
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duane valentine
April 23, 2025
Can't get it to work to even get started
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