What are Google Sheets?
Google Sheets is a spreadsheet program included in a free, web-based software office suite offered by Google within its Google Drive service. The service includes Google Docs and Google Slides, a word processor, and a presentation program.
The app allows users to create and edit files online while collaborating with other users in real time. Edits are tracked by the user with a revision history presenting changes. An editor’s position is highlighted with an editor-specific color and cursor. A permissions system regulates what users can do. Updates have introduced features using machine learning, including “Explore”, offering answers based on natural language questions in a spreadsheet.
Benefits of Using Google Sheets
Have you ever considered using Google Sheets to host your product data feed?
If you don’t have a technical background or have only worked with Excel before, this may not have crossed your mind. However, Google Sheets offers numerous benefits as we have listed only major ones:
1. Formatting features
Offers powerful formatting, automated formulas and chart options, conditional formatting, and more.
2. Ease of Use
Google Sheets is incredibly simple to use, making it the ideal spreadsheet application for users who are new to this type of program. If you are used to working with Microsoft Excel, for example, you will find that Google Sheets utilizes many of the same commands and functions.
3. Advanced calculations
Sheets use advanced calculations, such as figuring out an average for example, the average of the values in a range of cells or finding the maximum value from a range of cells. You don’t need to know any programming language or write any formulas yourself.
4. Versatile
Google Sheets is available as a web application, mobile app for Android, iOS, Windows, BlackBerry, and as a desktop application on Google’s ChromeOS.
5. Compatibility
The app is compatible with Microsoft Excel file formats.
6. Collaboration
The spreadsheet component of the program allows users to create and edit spreadsheets online while collaborating in real time with other users.
7. Integration
It has more robust integration with other Google services i.e. Google Forms.
8. File sharing
It allows users to store their files in one place and access them from any device no matter where they are.
9. Ready-made templates
It has pre-built templates and custom functions that can help you complete tasks faster and more efficiently. You can also import data from other programs like Excel or CSV files for further analysis or archiving purposes.
10. Productivity
It lets users accomplish more tasks in less time and with fewer headaches.
11. Functions
Allows users to add new predefined functions.
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Conclusion
Overall, Google Sheets is extremely useful software, and it’s one that we should all learn to use more. It has many applications outside of the office, as well as several features that can be used to improve productivity. We’ll delve into more detail about how to use these features in a later post, so stay tuned! In the meantime, comment if there is any benefit left out.
