134 Google Sheet Tutorials

Let's start at the basics of Google Sheets. Where every beginner spreadsheet expert starts!

Google Sheets uses a scripting language called Google Apps Script, which is based on JavaScript. If you know how to code in JavaScript, you'll find Google Apps Script very familiar. To get started, open a new Google Sheet and go to the "Extensions" menu, then click "Apps Script".

welcome to the technical walkthrough of VisiCalc 2023. This is the sheet that I released on April 1st for April Fool's Day. Learn how to use the onEdit() function in Apps Script. We learn the Apps Script for: Save a Sheet , Active Cell coloring, and the Out of Memory Toast.

Calculate Return on Ad Spend with a formula combination. Bonus: create a more elegant solution in Apps Script using JsDoc syntax to create an autocomplete native function. We use the formula combination of Concatenate / Round to create the ratio, but in Apps Script we do it a whole lot better.

Reviewing an existing sheet called "mortgage calculator for Google sheets" I point out the really nice "back to dashboard" button. This seems like a minor point but ends up improving the user interface, and user experience. Users tend to get lost in sheets with tabs, and providing another path to a sheet you know your users will want to go to, is great. At the end of the video I point out that you probably want to provide more outputs than inputs. Meaning that if someone puts in a few numbers, they get out of it a few years of statistics, or calculations in this case. Calculators are cool, but generators are even better. Calculators have a tendency to have more inputs than outputs. You're trying to get to one magical result. But a spreadsheet can be so much more powerful and show many more outputs if you do those calculations,. Especially here for a mortgage, you can show a range of calculations in addition to a single calculation.

Learn the best fonts to use in Google Sheets.

Turn your sheets into web apps with interactive checkboxes. Make your sheets' UI better with more interaction.

Get down to basics of spreadsheets.

Make your Google Sheets visually appealing and easier to understand with our expert tips on using gridlines, border styles, and colors. Learn how to create a professional-looking spreadsheet that effectively communicates your data to your audience. Boost your productivity today! We're gonna be talking about how to communicate better with grid lines, border styles, and border colors. Really interesting thing happens when you hide grid lines. You lose the grid, and I'll show you how to add that in. And some really interesting things you can do with different styles of border.

One of the best examples of a dashboard I got from a great talk on just totally like SASS dashboards, and they talked about the speedometer and why the speedometer is such a great dashboard is that it is it encapsulates all of the principles of what goes into a great dashboard.

One common feature that users often request is the ability to add star ratings to their spreadsheets. While this feature is not built into Google Sheets, it is possible to create a star rating system using emojis and data validation.