Google Sheets Basics: An Introduction to Google Sheets

Get started with Google Sheets with this comprehensive course for absolute beginners

What you'll learn
Different ways of accessing Google Sheets and getting familiar with the Google Sheets interface
Working with cells, rows, and columns, including group and merge
PC and Mac keyboard shortcuts
How to apply themes, formatting, and conditional formatting
Inserting images, links, checkboxes, comments, and notes
Making use of Google Drawings to insert videos and drawings
Adding data validations and dropdown selections
How to sort and filter data in Google Sheets and working with multiple sheets
An overview of basic formulas and functions and how to use the Query function
Creating charts and graphs, learning different chart types, editing, and customizing charts
Sharing your sheet and collaborating with other users
Publishing, downloading, and printing Google Sheets files

Requirements
A Google account to access Google Sheets
No previous knowledge of Google Sheets required. This course is created for absolute beginners.
Description
**This course includes course instructor files and exercise files to work with and follow along.**

Discover how to use Google’s popular online spreadsheet application with this comprehensive beginner course for Google Sheets. This application is perfect for collaboration as it allows you and other users to work on the same spreadsheet at once and have all your changes saved in real-time. No more conflicting changes and lost work! Think of it as using Excel, only better.

In this Google Sheets for Beginners course, we start from the very beginning, where we teach you how to create a sheet from scratch. We’ll work through rows and columns, themes, formatting, and a handful of keyboard shortcuts. We’ll also cover inserting images, checkboxes, and comments as well as using Google Drawing.

This course also discusses data cleanup and data validation, including how to create dropdown menus. We then move on to basic formulas and functions, sorting and filtering, working with multiple sheets, adding graphs and charts, and sharing your sheet.

This is a beginner-level course designed for Google Sheets novices who would like to get started with spreadsheets and is suitable for both PC and Mac users. We’ve also included accessible exercise and instructor files the same Google Sheets files that the instructor used in the tutorial so you can follow along.

What you’ll learn from this course

Different ways of accessing Google Sheets

Getting familiar with the Google Sheets interface

Working with cells, rows, and columns, including group and merge

PC and Mac keyboard shortcuts

How to apply themes, formatting, and conditional formatting

Inserting images, links, checkboxes, comments, and notes

Making use of Google Drawing to insert videos and drawings

Adding data validations and dropdown selections

How to sort and filter data in Google Sheets

An overview of basic formulas and functions

How to use the Query function

Working with multiple sheets

Creating charts and graphs and learning different chart types

Editing and customizing charts

Sharing your sheet and collaborating with other users

Publishing, downloading, and printing Google Sheets files

This course includes

4 hours of video tutorials

38 individual video lectures

Course and exercise files to follow along

Certificate of completion

Who this course is for
Google Sheets novice
Those who want to use an web-based spreadsheet as an alternative to Excel