Sheets will auto-fill or suggest formulas based on what you type, so you don't need to remember every formula. You can click a formula to add it to a cell, or you can start typing any formula with a = sign in a cell followed by the formula's name. Hover the dark grey bar in the top left of the spreadsheet (until it becomes a hand) and drag between rows 1 and 2
This allows you to have a long list and helps to keep tabs on what you’re actually looking at.Ĭlick VIEW > FREEZE > 1 ROW in the navigation bar to lock the first row in place That means if we scroll down the spreadsheet, the first row will still be visible, no matter how much data lies below it. Since I eat breakfast every morning, let's take some time to make this spreadsheet more user-friendly with some formatting!įirst we’ll "Freeze" the first row in place. But it’s not something I would want to come back to each day. It’s really boring, and if it was a large data set it would be painful to skim through.įor the simple example above a lack of significant formatting is "okay." It does the basics, storing my information and allowing me to save it. In fact, a vast majority of my own spreadsheets look like this-Google Sheets makes it so simple to capture information, share it, and return to it later for reference that it acts as my highly-structured note-taking tool.īut let’s assume that you have to deal with dozens of spreadsheets per day (or worse, that you have to share spreadsheets back-and-forth) and this is what someone sends you. It’s functional, enough that you could use this very easily to keep track of information. Try looking for data that’s actually in an HTML table (like movie data from IMDB, for example) to avoid getting funky pasted data in your spreadsheet. Import an existing spreadsheet in csv, xls, xlsx and other formatsĬopy any value in a cell across a range of cells via a click and dragĬopy & Paste is pretty self-explanatory, but there are times when you’ll try to copy a "spreadsheet-y" set of data from a website or PDF, and it will just paste into one cell or format everything with the original styling. If you don’t want to type in everything manually, you can also add data to your Sheet en masse via a few different methods:Ĭopy and paste a list of text or numbers into your spreadsheetĬopy and paste an HTML table from a website Use the ARROW KEYS on your keyboard (up, down, left, and right) to move 1 cell in that directionĬlick any cell to jump directly to that cell Press TAB to save the data and move to the right in the same row Press ENTER to save the data and move to the beginning of the next row When you’re done entering data into a cell, you can do one of 4 things: Each cell should contain one value, word, or piece of data.įeel free to select any cell you’d like, then go ahead and type something in.
Spreadsheet: The entire document containing your worksheetsĪn individual square in a spreadsheet is called a cell they're organized into rows and columns with number and letter IDs, respectively. Worksheet (Sheet): The named sets of rows and columns making up your spreadsheet one spreadsheet can have multiple sheets Range: A selection of cells extending across a row, column, or both.įunction: A built-in operation from the spreadsheet app, which can be used to calculate cell, row, column, or range values, manipulate data, and more.įormula: The combination of functions, cells, rows, columns, and ranges used to obtain a specific result. To kick things off, let's cover some spreadsheet terminology to help you understand this the terms we'll be using:Ĭell: A single data point or element in a spreadsheet. In this chapter, you'll learn how to:Ĭreate a Spreadsheet and Fill It With DataĪdd, Average, and Filter Data with Formulas The best way to learn a tool like Sheets is to dive straight in. Interested in writing your own scripts for Google Sheets? We'll dig into those in chapter 8 with tutorials on writing Google Apps Script.
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