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Google Sheets: Online Spreadsheets & Templates | Google Workspace
Create online spreadsheets with Google Sheets. Collaborate in real-time from any device and leverage AI to generate formatting, analysis, and more.
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Google
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Google Sheets: Sign-in
Access Google Sheets with a personal Google Account or Google Workspace account (for business use).
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Why Choose Google Sheets Over Excel?
It's free, and I'm always logged in to Google already. More on reddit.com
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Does Google Sheets do nearly everything that Excel does?
From what I can tell, Sheets is keeping up rather well with Excel's expanding functionality, but it does not handle datasets as large as Excel can without a serious calculation lag. More on reddit.com
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Google Play
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Google Sheets - Apps on Google Play
Create and edit online spreadsheets with Google Sheets, part of Google Workspace
Rating: 4.3 ​ - ​ 1.29M votes
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App Store
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Google Sheets App - App Store
With Sheets you can: * Create new ... * Open, edit, and save Excel files Google Sheets is part of Google Workspace: where teams of any size can chat, create, and collaborate....
Rating: 4.8 ​ - ​ 1.64M votes
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Reddit
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r/googlesheets on Reddit: Why Choose Google Sheets Over Excel?
July 30, 2024 -

I work with spreadsheets daily and have always used Excel. On the few occasions I’ve tried Google Sheets, it felt like a similar product but with a cheaper experience. Given this, why would someone choose Google Sheets over Excel? I’m really interested in hearing your thoughts on this.

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My organization recently switched to Google Workspace from MS Suite and I will tell anyone how much better off I am. Here is a shortlist of things: Collaboration: i am a part of a two-person team that builds and stores data and reporting for a large regional bank. We work in different locations. The fact that we can be in a Sheets together without it breaking something or having to save & send files is a godsend. I can even teach a few of the more complicated formulas I've built over the years because we can work in the same file live. Break a webpage, not your computer: I can't tell you how many times I've crashed my computer with Excel. The reports I use are too big, too complicated, and need to link together. At my peak I was crashing about twice a week. I've crashed a Sheets page twice since converting a year and a half ago. Living files connected: import range is delightful. It took the only fear out of leaving Excel behind away. We have about 30 reports that talk to each other so that my branch and regional leaders can have a one-page synthesis report based on their location or region. It's possible to make this happen in Excel, but once someone can't "see" the origin file, everything breaks. Not so when everything is in Workspace. I won't say it's easy to convert everything to Sheets. I miss how much easier macros seemed to be in Excel. My teammate and I decided to rebuild every document into Sheets instead of trying to convert it. The net result, however, was far surpassing in efficiency and in design. We took files that required thousands of repeating formulas (a headache in Sheets) and replaced it with a single Query. We made tools even easier for managers to use, which gave them less reason not to be up to date on production and servicing. We work better and faster, and we get to test out new ideas because our workload has dramatically improved. So, yes. I'm a fan of converting from Excel to Sheets.
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Google Sheets function list - Google Docs Editors Help
October 22, 2025 - Google Sheets supports cell formulas typically found in most desktop spreadsheet packages.
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support.google.com › docs › thread › 269157096 › i-can-t-open-my-google-spreadsheet-anymore
I can't open my google spreadsheet anymore!!! - Google Docs Editors Community
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google-spreadsheet - npm
import { GoogleSpreadsheet } from 'google-spreadsheet'; import { JWT } from 'google-auth-library'; // Initialize auth - see https://theoephraim.github.io/node-google-spreadsheet/#/guides/authentication const serviceAccountAuth = new JWT({ // env var values here are copied from service account credentials generated by google // see "Authentication" section in docs for more info email: process.env.GOOGLE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL, key: process.env.GOOGLE_PRIVATE_KEY, scopes: ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/spreadsheets'], }); const doc = new GoogleSpreadsheet('<the sheet ID from the url>', service
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support.google.com › docs › answer › 6000292
How to use Google Sheets - Computer - Google Docs Editors Help
Google Sheets is an online spreadsheet app that lets you create and format spreadsheets and work with other people.
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support.google.com › docs › thread › 393399119 › my-google-spreadsheet-becomes-extremely-slow-when-it-has-around-20-or-more-tabs-sheets
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Factsheet
Developer Google LLC
Initial release March 9, 2006; 19 years ago (2006-03-09)
Stable release(s)
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Wikipedia
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Google Sheets - Wikipedia
3 weeks ago - Google Sheets is a spreadsheet program included as part of the free, web-based Google Docs Editors suite offered by Google. Google Sheets is available as a web application, as mobile apps for Android and iOS, and as a desktop application on ChromeOS.
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Google Sheets: Getting Started with Google Sheets
Google Sheets allows you to organize, edit, and analyze different types of information using spreadsheets. In this lesson, you'll learn about the different ways you might use spreadsheets and how to navigate the Google Sheets interface.
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Google Sheets
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Sheets.new
Access Google Sheets with a personal Google account or Google Workspace account (for business use).
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Reddit
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Google Sheets
January 29, 2015 - I have made a sample spreadsheet here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_gavYmve-xERV2QQnAROOD5yCDgRlyZmasB4VqhQpzc/edit?usp=sharing · Currency conversion between ILS and USD not working · u/Shu477 · • · Currency conversion between ILS and USD not working ·
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reddit.com › r/excel › does google sheets do nearly everything that excel does?
r/excel on Reddit: Does Google Sheets do nearly everything that Excel does?
November 13, 2023 -

I love Excel, but my workplace prefers that we use Google’s suite of apps like Docs and Sheets because we do a lot of collaborative work.

I’ve built several Excel sheets that do things like lookups in other tabs within the same sheet, pivot tables, lots of advanced calculations, etc. I want to share my Excel files with my colleagues but since they prefer Google Sheets, when they open my file on their computer after I’ve placed it in our share drive, that’s what my file opens in. I’m a little worried that some things won’t work correctly since my files were built in Excel so don’t know if everything will function properly.

What can Excel do that Google Sheets can’t? I’d rather not have to test everything in Google Sheets because that would take forever and I most certainly don’t want to rebuild them.

Edit: Thank you all for the replies! Given the major consequences of even a single error, I’ve told my colleagues they will need to use my Excel sheet or shouldn’t use it at all and that they’re more than welcome to replicate my work from the ground up in Sheets.

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How to view google spreadsheets shared on the web or gdrive - Google Docs Editors Community
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Google Sheets for Beginners - The Complete Course - YouTube
This is the beginning Google Sheets course that you've been waiting for! Learn everything you need to effectively use Google Sheets by watching just one vide...
Published   August 4, 2025
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Quora
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What is your take on Google Sheets vs. Excel? - Quora
Answer (1 of 2): They’re somewhat different breeds. On the outside, the basics look the same and indeed are the same. But the engine is different. In general, Excel has more features but is also more complex to deal with. Sometimes much too complex. Google Sheets may have fewer features, but no...
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Google
developers.google.com › google workspace › google sheets › create a spreadsheet
Create a spreadsheet | Google Sheets | Google for Developers
October 13, 2025 - Google Sheets · Guides · Send feedback · This page describes how to create a spreadsheet. To create a spreadsheet, use the create method on the spreadsheets collection, as shown in the following example. This example creates a blank spreadsheet with a specified title.