Data formatting is something that many people don’t consider when they are first creating a spreadsheet, but it often becomes an issue later in the spreadsheet’s life cycle when you need to do something that you hadn’t planned for. This is common when multiple pieces of data are included in one cell, but should have […]

The gridlines and borders in a spreadsheet are an important component for making your data easier to read. When the cells are visually separated by those lines, it’s more unlikely that someone reading the spreadsheet will have trouble identifying a cell. While Google Sheets includes gridlines by default, you may be looking for a thicker […]

While many of the spreadsheets that you work on in Google Sheets may only contain one worksheet, there are a number of situations where you may find yourself working on a file that has a lot of different tabs in it. This could be something like a weekly or monthly report where each tab indicates […]

Sometimes you are working with data in a spreadsheet and there is something that you would like to highlight among all of that data. Whether it’s data that is much higher or lower in relation to everything else, you might feel like it’s something that a person looking at the spreadsheet should have pointed out […]

Data that you print in a spreadsheet can be difficult to read, especially when there are a lot of rows and columns. It’s very easy for a reader’s eyes to glaze over when viewing this type of information, as it all starts to run together. This problem becomes amplified if the data isn’t visibly separated […]

Google Drive makes it very easy for you to share a link to one of the Google Sheets files that you’ve created. Simply turn on a sharing setting to get a link to the file, which you can then send to anyone you wish. But you may find that that link ends up in the […]

When you make a workbook in Google Sheets that contains a lot of worksheet tabs, finding the important ones can be difficult. In some cases you might actually need to access every tab in your worksheet but, in other cases, there might be some old tabs, or tabs that are just for formula references, which […]

The collaboration feature in Google Sheets makes it easier for a group of people to work on the same file. But if you have shared your file with others, you might not want them to be able to change some of the information found in that file. Fortunately Google Sheets provides an effective way for […]

Sorting data in a spreadsheet is very useful, and some sort of sorting method is usually preferred when you are submitting a report at your job or school. Arbitrarily analyzing data can be difficult, especially when important values are spread across a lot of cells without any real order. You may be familiar with sorting […]

Do you find it difficult to manage your files in Google Drive because the names aren’t descriptive enough? Sometimes we may have an idea of how we want to name our files when we initially create them but, over time, we can discover that our original file names weren’t very helpful? You may be familiar […]