For example, if your spreadsheet is filled to the brim with illegible data—as in, you literally can't see everything because your cells aren't wide enough—here's how to expand cells in Google Sheets. First, the short version for the quickest way to do this (keep scrolling for more...
One particular functionality that Sheets doesn’t natively support is the ability to find duplicates in Google Sheets – whether it’s duplicate data in cells or rows. While there is a way to quickly remove duplicate entries, using theRemove duplicatesoption under theDatamenu, there’s no way ...
Sort range organizes only the selected cell range without altering the rest of the sheet. In the example below, notice how the movie titles in column B are sorted alphabetically, but the other information—rank, opening numbers, and release date—stayed in their original cells. One other thin...
Without it, I have to keep scrolling over and over, often picking up or losing unintended cells in my selection. Please, please restore the "Select Range" function. I also need to be able to open or import .csv files. It's very inconvenient to use a different app for this alone....
If you own or have edit-access to a Sheet, you can set notifications when: A range of cells changes value A range of cells matches a particular condition To set conditional notifications, open your spreadsheet, go toTools > Conditional notifications > Add rule. You can also right-click dire...
Tounmerge all selected cells, highlight the range that contains them and either click on the tool's icon or click on the down arrow next to the icon and pick the first option from the drop-down menu. Tounmerge all cells on the sheet, select any cell on the spreadsheet of interest, cl...
Google Sheets is a great way to manage vast amounts of data, but the larger it grows, the more challenging it can be to track down specific information. Scrolling through spreadsheets looking for that one cell is like finding a needle in a haystack. That’s precisely why it’s helpful to...
When you have a lot of text in one of the cells of your spreadsheet, you may find that you can’t see all of it. While you might have tried ot resize the cell or manually insert line breaks, you can also use an option that will cause the text to “wrap.” ...
Once you’ve highlighted those cells, press and hold Ctrl, then tap the C key to copy that entire highlighted section. Then, press and hold Ctrl and tap the V key to paste it. This shortcut also works with Google Docs. If you need to copy the information from a Doc to a Sheet, ...
It looks like this in our Sheet: We can use a BYROW function to expand this SPLIT formula to work with a range of multi dropdowns. This single formula in cell C2 splits out all the cells in the range B2:B6 and outputs all the data in C2:E6 range: =BYROW(B2:B6,LAMBDA(r,SPLIT...