google sheets

A collection of 5 posts

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Named Range: The Spreadsheet Timesaver

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The Named range feature found in both Excel and Google Sheet gives the user the ability to name a range of cells with a label that is more memorable than the built in spreadsheet range format of “Sheet!ColumnRow:ColumnRow” (e.g. ‘Excel - Test - One’!A15:AF255’). While

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IMPORTRANGE() - Google Sheets Most Powerful Function

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An underused feature of Google Sheets that I find to be a major reason to use the software over excel (yes I said it) is the IMPORTRANGE() Function. It is a function that doesn’t exist in other spreadsheet platforms and is specifically tied to the collaborative cloud-based capabilities that

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Creating a Day Index in Excel and Google Sheets

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A fun challenge that I faced a few days was creating a weekday/weekend day index in Google sheets to count and index the number of weekdays/weekends in a month. This might sound like something easily achieved by placing a static value next to the date based on the

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Syncing Google Sheets Data to Excel

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Google Sheets is a popular collaborative spreadsheet platform that has become a legitimate threat to Microsoft Excel’s market share over the past few years. Part of the reason why the platform has made such an unprecedented rise in a short period of time is because of its cloud-first product

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Creating and Automating Google Analytics Reports in Google Sheets

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Manually populating spreadsheets with Google Analytics data on a weekly or daily basis is a time consuming task.The typical report building format follows the uniform process of generating a custom report, exporting that data to an excel format and then pasting the values into a customized reporting format. This