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What is Google Sheets?

Google Sheets is a powerful online spreadsheet platform designed to help businesses and individuals manage, analyze, visualize, and collaborate on data in real time. As part of the Google Workspace ecosystem, the platform allows users to create spreadsheets, organize information, build reports, and track projects from desktops, tablets, and mobile devices with seamless cloud synchronization. Gemini AI enhances spreadsheet productivity by enabling users to generate formulas, create trackers, build advanced charts, analyze patterns, and automate spreadsheet tasks using simple natural language prompts. Smart formatting tools, smart chips, and pre-built templates help users quickly structure spreadsheets for workflows such as inventory management, budgeting, project tracking, scheduling, and event planning. Real-time collaboration features allow multiple users to edit spreadsheets simultaneously, leave comments, assign action items, and review version histories to improve communication and decision-making. Integrated Google Meet functionality enables teams to launch meetings directly from spreadsheets, helping discussions remain connected to live project data and reports. Connected Sheets allows organizations to work with billions of rows of BigQuery and Looker data directly inside Google Sheets, making advanced analytics more accessible to non-technical users. The platform also supports integrations with third-party applications such as Salesforce, Asana, and Intuit, allowing businesses to centralize operational data and streamline reporting workflows. Google Sheets improves Microsoft Excel compatibility by enabling users to edit Excel files while unlocking collaborative editing, intelligent recommendations, and workflow automation features. Security features include encryption by default, privacy controls, anti-abuse protections, and optional client-side encryption designed to help organizations safeguard sensitive information.

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Company Facts

Company Name:
Google
Date Founded:
1998
Company Location:
United States
Company Website:
workspace.google.com/products/sheets/

Product Details

Deployment
SaaS
Training Options
Documentation Hub
Support
Web-Based Support

Product Details

Target Company Sizes
Individual
1-10
11-50
51-200
201-500
501-1000
1001-5000
5001-10000
10001+
Target Organization Types
Mid Size Business
Small Business
Enterprise
Freelance
Nonprofit
Government
Startup
Supported Languages
Afrikaans
Albanian
Arabic
Armenian
Basque
Bengali
Bulgarian
Catalan
Chinese (Mandarin)
Chinese (Simplified)
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
Estonian
Finnish
French
Georgian
German
Greek
Gujarati
Hebrew
Hindi
Hungarian
Icelandic
Indonesian
Irish
Italian
Japanese
Javanese
Korean
Latvian
Lithuanian
Macedonian
Malay
Malayalam
Maltese
Maori
Marathi
Mongolian
Nepali
Norwegian
Persian
Polish
Portuguese
Punjabi
Romanian
Russian
Samoan
Serbian
Slovak
Slovenian
Spanish
Swahili
Swedish
Tamil
Tatar
Telugu
Thai
Turkish
Ukrainian
Urdu
Uzbek
Vietnamese
Welsh
Xhosa
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Google Sheets Categories and Features

Spreadsheet Software

Analytics
Audit Trail
Calculators
Charting
Multi-User Collaboration
Templates

Google Sheets Customer Reviews

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  • Reviewer Name: A Verified Reviewer
    Position: Business Analyst
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 500 - 999
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    Sheets - Cloud Excel

    Date: Jun 10 2020
    Summary

    Google Sheets is a very helpful application when you have to work with multiple teams where collaboration is the key. The security concerns for sharing a file can be taken care of by just sharing a link of the file with an access setting. Integration with drive makes things easy. The only concern with sheets is that it is not as fast as the traditional excel. It does not have all the shortcuts like in excel. On an overall level, it is a great application that adds a lot of value.

    Positive

    (+) Free of cost, provides a cloud space of 15 GB.
    (+) Easy to use and has almost all of the Excel features.
    (+) Integration with google drive, sharing of files is easy where you can just share a link without actually sharing the file.
    (+) Realtime collaborations can be done, which is very helpful when working in teams.

    Negative

    (-) Slows down when you try to open a file of 20-30 MB
    (-) Not all the excel features are available in the sheets.
    (-) The mobile application does not work well, navigation on the mobile application is not very easy.

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  • Reviewer Name: Samantha S.
    Position: Admin
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Weekly
    Org Size (# of Employees): 1 - 25
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    Sheets

    Date: Apr 10 2020
    Summary

    Overall great software. I enjoy using it on my computer or phone depending if it's work or personal use. We use it very often for personal and business uses.

    Positive

    We love Google Sheets in our house. We use it to make a running wish list or Christmas list throughout the year. Easy to use and set up. I also use it for work to keep patients appointments organized.

    Negative

    Sometimes I find google sheets and be a tad touchy when scrolling or tabbing through the rows. Sometimes it moves or delets something I didn't want deleted.

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  • Reviewer Name: Maria G.
    Position: Sales Manager
    Has used product for: 6-12 Months
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 1 - 25
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    Handling data made easy

    Date: May 24 2020
    Summary

    The best tool for handling smaller projects. It comes very handily if you do not have license to Microsoft application and can be used for various purposes.

    Positive

    I love all Google cloud-based applications and google sheets are no different. The sheets are easy to manage and the templates provided by Google comes in handy on various occasions. The sheet can be easily shared with my colleagues via email or a shareable link. They also have a mobile application to quickly make small changes If you are traveling and have no access to your laptop.

    Negative

    The mobile application for google sheet needs improvement. It becomes very difficult to edit the sheet using the mobile app. More features can be added to Google Sheets. If the data and number of rows are increased the sheet takes a long time and sometimes fails to open, My suggestion would be to create a desktop application to make it more useable for large projects.

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  • Reviewer Name: A Verified Reviewer
    Position: Business Development
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 1 - 25
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    Great Alternative to Excel

    Date: May 27 2020
    Summary

    I use it almost everyday, and I use it to open Excel documents that are sent to me that I otherwise wouldn't be able to edit.

    Positive

    It has all the features (that I know of) that Excel has, but it is free, saves everything to your drive, makes documents easily shareable, and opens Excel documents!

    Negative

    I'm sure it lacks some of the features that Excel has, but I do not know if that's the case.

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  • Reviewer Name: Brandon P.
    Position: Marketing Coordinator
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 1 - 25
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    Stunning way for data

    Date: Apr 28 2020
    Summary

    It's a powerful and easy program to use and can sync to programs to autoload data into cells and rows.

    Positive

    Very easy way to manage and use data to understand. Also easy to collaborate in real-time with others.

    Negative

    There is some learning that takes place to use to it's full potential.

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  • Reviewer Name: Chet N.
    Position: CEO
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 1 - 25
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    Very powerful

    Date: Apr 21 2020
    Summary

    Overall i recommend this to everyone because of how powerful the tool is and it works. Never had problems.

    Positive

    Love how I can share so easily and works on any device. Plus it updates immediately as you work so you always are current.

    Negative

    I think if they had more ways to easily add integrations it'd be awesome.

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  • Reviewer Name: Makayla B.
    Position: Social Media Manager
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Weekly
    Org Size (# of Employees): 1 - 25
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    Essential for projects shared amongst teammates

    Date: Apr 23 2020
    Summary

    I do think that Google Spreadsheets is a great program. It's essential for large teams working on a central project giving everyone access to necessary information and allowing everyone to make edits.

    Positive

    Very user friendly and convenient to use. I like being able to have spreadsheets shared among teammates, with everyone having the ability to edit and work on one cohesive project.

    Negative

    With a full spreadsheet it doesn't always allow you to view everything in a cell easily which can be frustrating when working on projects.

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