Practical Free Alternatives to Commercial Software

© Steve Oualline and Grace Oualline 2018

Steve Oualline and Grace OuallinePractical Free Alternatives to Commercial Softwarehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3075-6_18

18. Using Google Sheets

Steve Oualline¹  and Grace Oualline¹

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San Diego, California, USA

 

Google Sheets is an online spreadsheet program. Its main advantage is that it is on the Internet. That means you can access it from anywhere. There are even phone apps that let you access it through your smartphone, which makes it useful for storing numbers as they are generated.

In this chapter, you will learn the basics of Google Sheets, including the following:

• Getting started

• Creating a basic cost estimation spreadsheet

• Creating titles

• Creating a chart

Getting Started with Google Sheets

To get ...