One click to insert date/time or timestamp, add parentheses, add thousands separators, and convert between half / fullfwidth form
By:Hsin Yuan Yeh
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Install the Text Factory, then you can simply insert date/time or timestamp from the pulldown menu directly. For the selected text, you can add parentheses , add thousands separators to numbers, convert alphabetic case, and do characters conversion between half and full width form by mouse click on the buttons in sidebar. You can customize the date/time format to conform your culture convention.

Install the Text Factory, then you would find that writing manual, personal diary and daily working digest is quite timesaving and happy tasks.

2018-02-09
Open all the source codes to be accessible on the Github repository. (repository name: TextFactory)

2018-01-02
feature: enable user to set time zone manually

2017-11-08
fixes:  Typo, Calendar in daylight saving area, workaround for script's issue #36759856

2017-10-7
format: %+d, %enB and %enb.  For "%+d %enB, %Y" would insert  "1st October 2017".

2017-4-18:
feature: insert date from calendar

2016-2-27: 
feature: the leading zero will be removed by prefixing * to the existing format.

2016-10-09:
feature: add format for the Hebrew and lunar calendar.
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MasiL M
May 11, 2023
It works for my purposes. Only suggestion is to make the extension window a small widget or icon so that it doesn't take up so much space when I have a doc open.
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A User of Text Factory
September 24, 2018
Requires a ridiculous number of permissions in exchange for something which should be included in google docs. You do know that this can copy all of your docs (and emails?) and archive them to a cloud service somewhere for posterity, right? All that for the luxury of pasting in today's date? Ridiculous. Why trust this unknown when you can't trust Facebook? Don't trust anyone with such access. I'm removing it right now...
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A User of Text Factory
November 21, 2018
The date is not automatically updated when document is reopened (( It's not timestamp, but only a routine operation to insert a currenet date and time. In addition, I really want to insert the file name, which will also be updated automatically.
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A User of Text Factory
December 12, 2018
I only put 3 stars because I had to to post. I read the reviews here right after adding it to my add-ons. I was concerned about the comments that the add-on has access to so much personal information. Then, to my surprise, I found a couple emails from Google saying the same thing. Should I be concerned? This was the only app I could find that inserts date/time into my docs.
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A User of Text Factory
March 16, 2018
This app is great and easy to use and once installed works without issues. I've been using for months.
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A User of Text Factory
April 4, 2016
three stars only because I can't seem to put in dates other than yesterday, today, and tomorrow. those shortcuts are helpful but I'm trying to format dates in a table to a certain way without typing in each day of the week and month abbreviation. it would be great but the in ability to do other days is pretty annoying for me
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A User of Text Factory
May 17, 2019
Limited but was doing the job (a bit slow sometimes) but recently it stopped working and only shows the Help in the menu
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A User of Text Factory
November 27, 2016
Your add-in would be stellar, if you added an ordinal number date format, i.e. "26th" June, 2016. Needed in legal pleadings.
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A User of Text Factory
October 1, 2018
Can't go into the settings, nothing is clickable and I can only navigate using tab
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A User of Text Factory
April 14, 2017
Thanks, it's simple but helpful. Could you please add option to change text formatting from normal to header 1 (2 or 3)
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