Formulas for
Shift text tense by the row. Rewrites a cell into past or future tense down a column — Sheets or Excel.
It's one of 250+ live sources you reach with a single =VERVE() function — served from APIVerve's production data engine, billed at 1 credit per resolved cell, and refreshed on whatever cadence you set. No API keys to wrangle, no scripts, no exports.
A real example — the input you type, and the values you can pull from it. Click any cell to see the formula behind it.
Fill =VERVE("tenseconverter", "I am walking down the street, and I can see a dog", "past", "field", "result") beside messy text and get the normalized, analyzed, or translated version back — data cleaning without leaving the grid.
Score or classify a whole column of responses, reviews, or messages in one fill instead of one-by-one.
Nest Convert Tense's output inside your existing SUM, IF, or CONCAT logic like any other cell value.
The same function works in both apps — install once, sign in with your key, and type it into any cell.
Google SheetsAdd-onInstall from the Workspace Marketplace, then drop the formula into a cell. Autocomplete suggests the source and its fields.
=VERVE("tenseconverter", "I am walking down the street, and I can see a dog", "past", "field", "result")
Microsoft ExcelAdd-inSame source, same arguments, same key — in Excel on desktop, the web, or mobile. Excel namespaces it as VERVE.CALL. Drag to fill a whole column.
=VERVE.CALL("tenseconverter", "I am walking down the street, and I can see a dog", "past", "field", "result")Add a field name as the last argument to land just that value in the cell.
=VERVE("tenseconverter", "I am walking down the street, and I can see a dog", "past", "field", "result")=VERVE("tenseconverter", "I am walking down the street, and I can see a dog", "past", "field", "changed")=VERVE("tenseconverter", "I am walking down the street, and I can see a dog", "past", "field", "tense")Everything you need to wire it into a sheet.
=VERVE("emojidecorator", "I am so excited to go to the lake and swim")
=VERVE("lexicon", "listen", "field", "isAlphagram")
=VERVE("readingtime", "This is a sample article with multiple paragraphs. Reading time will be calculated based on word count. The average reading speed is 250 words per minute, which can be customized. This helps content creators provide accurate time estimates to their readers.", "field", "text_length")
=VERVE("grammarcheck", "The the pig snorted when I saw it on the barn gate. I was a little mad becuase it woke up my pupppppy", "field", "modified")
=VERVE("palindromechecker", "A man a plan a canal Panama", "field", "is_palindrome")
=VERVE("spellchecker", "I neeed to call my friend on telephine today!", "field", "spellPass")