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Automate Your Reports: Google Apps Script Triggers Explained

sheets.org — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:00:00 -0400

A macro you run by hand saves minutes. A trigger saves the remembering: it runs your function every Monday at 8am, or every time a form response lands, with nobody at the keyboard. Triggers are the difference between a script and an automation. This post assumes you can write a …

Excel VBA for Beginners: Record, Read, and Edit Your First Macro

sheets.org — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 09:00:00 -0400

VBA has been automating Excel since 1993, and it is still the fastest way to eliminate repetitive work in a workbook. The on-ramp is gentler than people think, because Excel writes the first draft for you: record a macro, then read and edit the code. Here is that path, step …

Your First Google Apps Script Macro (No Coding Experience Needed)

sheets.org — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:00:00 -0400

Anything you do by hand in Google Sheets — formatting a report, sorting, inserting a timestamped row — can be done by a script. Google Apps Script is built into every spreadsheet, free, and based on JavaScript. You do not need to know JavaScript to start, because Sheets will write the first …

Master SUMIFS, COUNTIFS & AVERAGEIFS: Conditional Math Done Right

sheets.org — Wed, 06 May 2026 09:00:00 -0400

Once your data has more than one dimension, plain SUM and COUNT stop being enough. The questions become conditional: total revenue for the West region, count of orders in March, average deal size over \$500. The IFS family — SUMIFS, COUNTIFS, AVERAGEIFS — answers all of these with one formula each, identically …

Getting Started with Power Query in Excel

sheets.org — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:00:00 -0400

If you clean the same messy CSV export every week — deleting header junk, splitting columns, fixing dates, removing blanks — Power Query will give you those hours back. You perform the cleanup once, Excel records every step, and from then on it is a one-click refresh. It is built into Excel …

25 Excel Keyboard Shortcuts That Actually Save Time

sheets.org — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 09:00:00 -0500

Most shortcut lists are padded with things nobody uses. This one is not. These are the shortcuts that heavy Excel users press hundreds of times a day, grouped by job. Learn them a group at a time — a week per group — and your hands will stop leaving the keyboard. Mac …

ARRAYFORMULA Explained: One Formula for a Whole Column

sheets.org — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 09:00:00 -0500

If you have ever added rows to a sheet and discovered your formulas did not come along, ARRAYFORMULA is the fix. It is the most distinctly "Google Sheets" function there is — one formula at the top of a column that computes every row, forever, including rows that do not exist …

Conditional Formatting in Google Sheets: A Practical Guide

sheets.org — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 09:00:00 -0500

Conditional formatting turns a grid of numbers into something your eyes can scan: overdue tasks glow red, top performers glow green, duplicates reveal themselves. Here is how to use it well in Google Sheets — including the custom-formula trick that unlocks most real-world use cases.

The basics

Select a range, then …

Pivot Tables in Google Sheets: Turn Raw Data into Insights

sheets.org — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 09:00:00 -0500

A pivot table is the fastest way to answer questions like "what were sales by region by month?" without writing a single formula. If you have ever built a wall of SUMIFS to summarize a dataset, pivot tables will feel like a superpower. Here is a complete walkthrough for Google …

XLOOKUP vs VLOOKUP vs INDEX/MATCH: Which Should You Use?

sheets.org — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 09:00:00 -0500

Every spreadsheet user eventually needs to pull a value from one table into another. For twenty years the answer was VLOOKUP. Then INDEX/MATCH became the power-user favorite. Now XLOOKUP, available in both Excel and Google Sheets, does what both of them do with fewer sharp edges. Here is how …

Master VLOOKUP in Google Sheets: The Complete Guide

sheets.org — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 20:38:00 -0400

Have you ever had two spreadsheets with related information and needed to combine them? Maybe you have a list of customer orders in one sheet and customer contact details in another, and you need to match them up. Or perhaps you're managing inventory and need to pull product prices from …

Using SQL in Google Sheets: Master the QUERY Function

sheets.org — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 20:30:00 -0400

Ever wished you could use SQL's powerful data retrieval capabilities right inside Google Sheets? You're not alone. While spreadsheets are fantastic for organizing data, they can feel limiting when you need to filter, sort, and analyze information the way you would in a database. The good news? Google Sheets has …