Google Sheets is a free, web-based program for creating and editing spreadsheets. It’s part of Google Drive, along with Google Docs and Google Slides. Just like the Microsoft Excel sheets you can use Google Sheets to carry out your spreadsheet assignments. It collaborates and integrates perfectly with other Google products and you can access your work remotely from multiple devices.
Google Sheets – Apps on Google Play
https://play.google.com › store › apps › details › id=co…
Create, edit, and collaborate on spreadsheets from your Android phone or tablet with the Google Sheets app. With Sheets, you can:
Google Sheets on the App Store
https://apps.apple.com › app › google-sheets
Create, edit, and collaborate on spreadsheets with the Google Sheets app. With Sheets, you can: * Create new spreadsheets or edit existing ones.
Google Sheets: Online Spreadsheets for Business
https://workspace.google.com › products › sheets
Google Sheets supports more than 400 spreadsheet functions that can be used to create formulas that manipulate data, calculate numbers, and generate strings.
How to use Google Sheets – Android – Docs Editors Help
https://support.google.com › docs › answer
You can create, view, and edit Google spreadsheets, as well as Microsoft Excel® files, with the Google Sheets app for Android. Here are some things to help
Free Google Sheets Tutorial at GCFGlobal
https://edu.gcfglobal.org › google spreadsheets
In this free tutorial, learn how to use the powerful tools in Google Sheets for organizing, visualizing, and calculating data in a spreadsheet.
Google Sheets for Developers
https://developers.google.com › sheets
Enhance the Google Sheets experience. Insert interactive content, powered by your account data or an external service, with Add-ons
Google Sheets Compatibility
Google Sheets is available as a web application, accessible through Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer 11, Microsoft Edge, and Safari. This means that Google Sheets is compatible with all desktops and laptops (e.g. Windows, Mac, Linux) that can run any of the aforementioned web browsers. A Google Sheets mobile app is also available to install on Android (running version 4.4 KitKat and newer) and iOS (running version 9.0 and newer) devices.
Google Sheets supports a list of common spreadsheet formats and file types:
.xlsx .xls .xlsm .xlt .xltx .xltxm .ods
.csv .txt .tsv .tab
Users can open/import, edit, and save/export spreadsheets (including Microsoft Excel) and documents with Google Sheets. Excel files can be easily converted to Google Sheets and vice versa.
How to use Google Sheets
Google Sheet offers the basic and frequently-used features that one would expect when working with spreadsheets.
Since Google Sheet is available through Google Drive, one needs to first log in with a Googles account in order to create, edit, save and share files. The Google account acts like a unified sign-in system that gives access to Google’s product catalog–Gmail is not required for using Google Drive/Sheets, as any email address can be associated with a Google account.
Google Sheet offers the basic and frequently-used features that one would expect when working with spreadsheets, such as (but not limited to):
- Firstly, customize the spreadsheet and data (with autofill capability).
- Secondly, work with rows, columns, and cells.
- Implement functions, macros, and scripts for complex calculations.
- Add charts/graphs, pivot tables, and images.
- Lastly, import and/or search for data in spreadsheets
However, there are some notable strengths to using Google Sheet compared to other options,
they include:
- Remote access: Work with the same document every time–even from multiple devices, platforms, and/or locations – since files are stored in the cloud (Google Drive). Changes are automatically saved, and offline editing (via mobile app and the Google Chrome web browser) is also available.
- Share files with others (instead of emailing multiple copies back and forth) for collaborative, real-time editing, commenting, and chatting. Google Sheets’ built-in revision history tracks all changes (both the people and edits they made) and gives users the option to restore the file to an earlier version.
- Integration/access to other Google products, such as Google Forms (for creating/inserting feedback polls/questionnaires/surveys on spreadsheet presentations), Google Translate (cell functions for translating languages), or Google Finance (automatically finds and inputs specified finance info).
- Easy to learn/teach and is free for individual use.
Google Sheet Versus Microsoft Excel
There is a reason that Microsoft Excel is the industry standard, especially for business/enterprise. Microsoft Excel has robust depth and resources that allow users to do and create practically anything. Although Google Sheet presents distinct advantages for the right types of people, it is no true replacement for Microsoft Excel, which includes (but not limited to):
- Firstly, more options for templates, customization, and advanced editing/formatting tools
- Secondly, automatic adjustment of formulas when adding/deleting categories
- Thirdly, management and processing of huge amounts of data
- A vast selection of charts and graphs for presenting information
- Lastly, advanced functions/formulas ideal for finance, statistics, science, engineering, etc.
