How to Create and Edit Spreadsheets for Free with Google Sheets

What is Google Sheets and how to create and edit spreadsheets for free with Google Sheets?

A free web based program to create and edit spreadsheets, powerpoint presentations and word documents just like Microsoft Excel.

 As can be seen from the above image it has option to upload file or folder. Also, we can create folder as per our requirement to arrange our documents inside google drive.

One can see, edit and share their documents either using their laptop. Desktop or mobile (using their mobile application).

ADVANTAGE:

• The advantage of using Google Drive and it’s documents is that 
  • First we don’t require to carry any hard drive or storage device with us anymore
  • Secondly, these are easily sharable and multiple people can work on this at the same time. Also, this has option to give only viewing rights, commenting rights, editing rights etc. to user
  • It supports a wide range of document types like .xlsx, .xls, .csv, .tsv etc. and much more than this
  • Is supported by almost every browser like Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari etc.
  • Can import files created on Microsoft Excel as well and has the ability to edit and manipulate it’s data

Import external files on Google Sheet is also very easy, just click on the Import option as shown above and import.

Files can be imported from Drive or can upload any document from hard drive.

OTHER FUNCTIONALITIES

• It has a list of inbuilt functions like VLOOKUP, SUMIF, SUMIFS, COUNTIF, COUNTIFS, SUM, DATE, PIVOT, REMOVE DUPLICATES etc. 
• And the important thing is one can do numerical as well as text analysis in it
• Can make beautiful curves, bar charts; hence reducing the users effort in analysis
• One can publish their spreadsheets directly to WordPress as well

And most important of all, it’s simple, easy to use and a lot of readymade tutorials are available online for it.

LIMITATIONS:

• Handles less data w.r.t Microsoft Excel (Excel has capacity to handle ~1 million rows
• Additional advanced formulas are available for finance, statistics etc. in Microsoft Excel but not in Google Sheets

OTHER ARTICLES (PUBLISHED OR WIP) ARE:

• VLOOKUP
• SUMIF
• SUMIFS
• COUNTIF
• COUNTIFS
• PIVOT
• REMOVE DUPLICATES
• PUBLISHING ON WORDPRESS
• TEXT ANALYTICS
• NUMERICAL ANALYSIS
• VISUALIZATION

For more information about Google Sheets refer the link.

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