Google Sheets
About Google Sheets
Google Sheets is a cloud-based spreadsheet platform designed to help businesses of all sizes collaborate with clients and partners to create and edit data on spreadsheets. The artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled system allows employees to add collaborators to projects, view real-time changes in the sheet, and chat with team members from within documents.
The application lets administrators set expiration dates on projects and grant permissions to download, copy, or print content among specific collaborators. Stakeholders can utilize the explore functionality to view trends and gain data insights through customizable visuals in real-time. Google Sheets offers data loss prevention (DLP) module, which enables organizations to detect potential data breaches and prevent data leak by blocking sensitive data visibility among unauthorized members.
Google Sheets provides an API and Zapier integration, which lets businesses connect with several third-party platforms such as BigQuery, Microsoft Office, Outlook, Apps Script, Trello, Slack, Mailchimp, and more. Other features include information rights management (IRM), customizable templates, analytics, collaboration, survey creation, revision history, conditional formatting, and more.
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- Industry: Consumer Services
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Take your reporting to the next level with Google Sheets
Reviewed on 14/09/2019
User friendly with good and exciting features supporting the requirements of today's day and age.
User friendly with good and exciting features supporting the requirements of today's day and age.
Pros
1. Simple and easy to understand with all the necessary tools available right in front of the eyes.
2. Uploading and downloading feature with multiple file format support.
3. Version and editing history with option to suggest edits.
4. Highly controllable in terms of sharing with email notifications.
Cons
I did not find any cons of this product.
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Microsoft ExcelReasons for Choosing Google Sheets
The collaborative working environment on the cloud that Google Sheets offers.Switched From
Microsoft ExcelReasons for Switching to Google Sheets
1. Google Sheets is free. 2. It works on the cloud. 3. It provides collaborative working space and easy sharing- Industry: Nonprofit Organization Management
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Full-featured Spreadsheet for Free
Reviewed on 11/01/2024
In general, I am satisfied. Differences between our desktop spreadsheet tool and Google sheets are...
In general, I am satisfied. Differences between our desktop spreadsheet tool and Google sheets are minimal.
Pros
As a small business, free tools that actually work are easy on the budget.
Cons
We use LibreOffice for our desktop spreadsheets and upload them to our Google drive. Not everything translates and some re-working is inevitable.
- Industry: Supermarkets
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Google Sheets
Reviewed on 23/07/2024
Google Sheets is an easy to manage spreadsheet app. Working with other in the same time is possible...
Google Sheets is an easy to manage spreadsheet app. Working with other in the same time is possible with neat sharing options of a viewer or contributor. Also there are available phone apps for Android and iOS witch makes Google Sheets more accessible.
Pros
I consider Google Sheets the ultimate spreadsheet app (at least from what i used until now). I really like it because it works very good and is really fast even with large amounts of data. Another great feature I really like is that the spreadsheet is stored securely in Google Drive and can be accessed from any device, this also makes sharing possible.
Cons
There are no cons for Google Sheets from my side.
- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
A good free alternative to Excel—if you need free
Reviewed on 14/07/2020
Since I don't use super-advanced features, I would say my experience is mostly fine, but I probably...
Since I don't use super-advanced features, I would say my experience is mostly fine, but I probably wouldn't go out of my way to suggest the use of Google Sheets over Excel—I would offer it as a suggestion to someone who either didn't have the money to spend on a spreadsheets software or if their intentions were limited to relatively simple or common tasks like making a monthly budget or creating a to-do list.
Pros
The basic features of Google Sheets are very easy to use, especially if like me, you spent the first 30 years of your life on Microsoft products. Google didn't reinvent the wheel and most of the functions used in Google have identical syntax to Excel, so you won't spend time re-learning how to sum your rows or columns. If you don't need to do anything overly complex in a spreadsheet, Sheets is an absolutely acceptable alternative to its competitor
Cons
While the basic features are simple and easier. Some of the "intermediate" features require a bit of research. For example, basic conditional formatting is fairly straight forward—however, if you want to do even a little bit beyond basic, for example, look for duplicates (which is very straightforward in Excel), you need to apply custom functions within conditional formatting rules. And if you're not relatively informed or willing to sit through a YouTube tutorial, it's not going to be super clear what the correct answer is. Also, Google's customer service doesn't usually supply any help here; I've seen numerous threads between customers and Google where customers ask how to do very common tasks or ask about common features and the reply is a resounding "We don't do that.". I'm in a privileged position because I work at a company that actually teaches people how to use Google Sheets, so I have a free resource to teach myself tricks if necessary, but despite this, the syntax for "complicated" tasks is easy to forget and I do often find myself looking up the same things over and over again.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Nap with sheets>Office
Reviewed on 01/07/2024
Was apprehensive at first as an avid excel user, but now it would be difficult me to go back.
Was apprehensive at first as an avid excel user, but now it would be difficult me to go back.
Pros
it's like excel 2.0 with way more integrations/add ons and more freedom.
Cons
uploading documents from excel sometimes causes issues with formatting or formulas
Google Sheets FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Google Sheets.Q. What type of pricing plans does Google Sheets offer?
Google Sheets offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$6.00/month
- Pricing model: Free Version, Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
Please contact Google directly for pricing information.
Q. Who are the typical users of Google Sheets?
Google Sheets has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Google Sheets support?
Google Sheets supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does Google Sheets support mobile devices?
Google Sheets supports the following devices:
Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does Google Sheets integrate with?
Google Sheets integrates with the following applications:
Google Analytics 360, Google Drive, Google Workspace, Mailchimp, Microsoft Outlook, Slack, Trello, Zapier
Q. What level of support does Google Sheets offer?
Google Sheets offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, Chat
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