This One Thing Makes It Easy to Work in Spreadsheets
In this video, Andrew from Better Sheets shares how lowering contrast in spreadsheets can significantly enhance usability and reduce eye strain, showcasing his free tool, Sheet Styles, which simplifies this process.
Alright, you might not believe me, but this has been the best thing I've ever done to make spreadsheets better for myself, to make me, uh, able to use spreadsheets for so long, I've been doing spreadsheets for 10 years, I'm Andrew, I'm the wizard here at BetterSheets. co, and, uh, or behind BetterSheets. co, Bye! I've been doing spreadsheets for more than 10 years, actually 13 years. I learned Excel VBA first, and then I learned Apps Script in Google Sheets. And I've been using Google Sheets for everything for 10 years. I worked at a startup for five years where, uh, we literally built the entire operations in, uh, in Google Sheets, automated a lot of stuff, um, and did really, really cool stuff. I'm really amazing things, managed data of 150, 000 videos, metadata of those, uh, managed production schedules for four broadcast channels, really created 10 Google Sheets I Wish Someone Would Make When did you learn the secrets of Google Sheets? | Sheet Talking Episode 8 Esa Big Year - a Whole Year in One Google Sheets Tab How To Sell Google Sheets For Fun And Profit
scalable, uh, things in, uh, sheets. And this has been the number one thing that has changed my life in spreadsheets for a very long time. And what it is, is lowering the contrast, uh, And I believe in this so much that I built this free tool sheet styles . You can get this in the Google sheet, Google workspace marketplace. That is a mouthful. Okay. What does it do? All right. This is what it looks like. This, um, is normally what a Google sheet looks like. It is aerial. font. It is the whitest white background and the blackest black, uh, text color . And in one click here, I can change it to what I think is one of the most ideal ways to use spreadsheets, which is a little bit of a beige y or paper color background. Sheet Styles A Free Google Sheet Add-on by Better Sheets Sheet Styles - A Free Google Sheet Add on by Better Sheets Brighten Up Your Checklist Automatically 3 Free Tools to Make Your Google Sheets Better
The font color is a little bit less than, uh, all black, which is zero, zero, zero. It's actually, this is like, uh, four, four, four. And then, uh, I also changed it to Carla font in this one click. So this right here is sheet styles . Let's go and get this before too long, before I get too far into this. It's in extensions, add ons, get add ons. We're going to search for sheet styles . Once this loads. Co op sheet styles . That's all you have to search for. It's going to be the very first one, install it, uh, click here. I've already installed it, but it will say here, install. Uh, it is totally free, uh, to use exactly like this. And I'll show you. If this is not enough change for you, this subtle change will help you so much. Um, but if you, that is not enough, there's also papyrus, which is Sheet Styles A Free Google Sheet Add-on by Better Sheets Sheet Styles - A Free Google Sheet Add on by Better Sheets YOU CAN DO BETTER
a slightly more papery, more darker, uh, less, less contrast. And here's the key here. This actually, my girlfriend at the time, now my wife asked for this. When I built sheet styles , she asked for this is, uh, she's an accountant and when she's doing a lot of. data managing of like checking rows. She doesn't know what row she's on. So click data style and it will alternate the rows. Yes, there is an alternate alternating rows template in sheets itself. So This one, though, is sort of this beige ier color. The alternating rose templates, they have white as the, um, white and as some color, and it's actually a high contrast. This is less contrast. Turn Bland Sheets Into Glam Sheets! Sheet Styles - A Free Google Sheet Add on by Better Sheets How to Add Alternating Row Colors
Also, if you're looking for more of a dark mode, and you really like sort of all dark and white text, you have dark style here. But this is not all. If you're using sheets and you have a boss and you're like, Hey, I need to be able to do this. I need, I want to work with sheets my way, but like my boss loves Ariel and he loves the white background. Like I can work like this, but he can't go scroll down more. default. This will reset everything to, to, uh, aerial whitest white background, blackest black text. That's not all this, this, this sheet styles also has custom settings. So say you want to brand your sheet, you want to say like, Oh, we use, uh, a dark Creating A Dark Mode Theme | Announcing Dark Habits Sheet Styles - A Free Google Sheet Add on by Better Sheets Does google sheets have dark mode
red instead of like, like a burgundy or a, like a very dark velvety background color . And our font color is actually like, let's say. Light blue, very light, very light blue. And you can set a custom style. And that will change the whole sheet to this. That's a little weird, but it's fun. Actually, that's very nice, bloody. Um, and then you can also reset it if you want from that custom style. Um, but you have these presets if you want. So you can have this custom style if you wish to really change it. This is a little bit easier for me to use, um, than having to go through the whole sheet, set the background, set the font color, and then also change the font. Turn Bland Sheets Into Glam Sheets! Sheet Styles - A Free Google Sheet Add on by Better Sheets Sheet Styles How to Add Alternating Row Colors
Uh, again, I, I fell in love with Carla. It was suggested to me about five years ago. Um, and I was like, Oh my God, this is so much better. There's also Constantia. If you're looking for like a, um, Times New Roman, like, uh, but not Times New Roman, you know, like how Ariel's like, Oh, we like air, but not like Ariel. Um, we also have quick stand quick sand, which I like it sort of bulkier, uh, uh, font, but, um, really easy to read. I like, I actually like quick stand quick sand a lot. So that subtle change, right? Will help you spend more time in Google Sheets, less headaches, and sort of enjoy the process way, way, way, way more. Better Header Fonts - Best Fonts To Use In Google Sheets Best Header Font Ever for Google Sheets Make Your Spreadsheets Easier to Read