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Formula controls and retry errors

In Google Sheets, Extensions ➤ GPT Workspace has entries specific to the GPT formulas.

The GPT Workspace menu in Google Sheets

Entry What it does
▶️ Start Opens the chat sidebar.
🔸 Enable GPT formulas Enables GPT, GPT_LIST, GPT_TABLE, GPT_TRANSLATE, GPT_WEB, GPT_IMAGE, GPT_COMPLETE, GPT_CLASSIFY and GPT_FILE in this spreadsheet. Needed once per spreadsheet.
🎛️ Formula controls Opens the Formula controls sidebar: count of active formulas, Refresh all, Freeze all, and Refresh range / Freeze range for the selection. See Refresh or freeze GPT cells.
🔄 Retry errors Re-runs every =GPT… formula of the active sheet whose cell shows an error (a value starting with #), for example after a timeout or a rate limit.
🛟 Documentation Opens this help center.
💳 Billing or ⭐ Upgrade now Opens your subscription or the pricing page.

The Formula controls sidebar

The Formula controls panel on its own

  • Cells show Exceeded maximum execution time, a 429 rate limit or Service invoked too many times: wait a minute (or until the next day for the daily quota), then click Retry errors. Only the failed cells are re-run; cached results are kept.
  • Cells show #NAME?: the formulas are not enabled, click Enable GPT formulas instead.
  • Cells show an out-of-credits message: top up or upgrade first, then Retry errors. See Common errors.

Until you authorize the add-on, the menu only shows ▶️ Start. Click it, accept the permissions, then reload the spreadsheet to see the other entries. See Authorization is required to perform that action if the authorization fails.