
Students will be able to create a Google account & spreadsheet.
Create a Google account to access your Drive, then open drive.google.com. Click New, choose Google Sheets, and start building spreadsheets.
Master the Google Sheets toolbar basics, from file, edit, view to insert and format options, learn to undo, redo, borders, merging, text alignment, and adding charts and functions.
Learn practical formatting tricks for Google Sheets: format headers, set uniform alignment, apply currency and percent formats, add borders, and make data easy to read before moving to functions.
Learn how to use built-in functions like sum, average, product, quotient, and count in Google Sheets, starting with the essential equal sign and range inputs.
Explore nested if statements and the IFS function in Google Sheets, learn how to evaluate multiple conditions and return specific results with practical examples.
Master conditional formatting in Google Sheets by building if statements, nested ifs, and ifs with custom formulas, then highlight and format cells to visualize data.
Explore the new raw data tab format in Google Sheets, understand why large datasets become practice data ranges for analysis, pivot tables, and best practices for separating raw data.
Discover how pivot tables and pivot charts analyze data quickly, create instant tables and charts, and weigh the pros and cons for segmentation, cross tab analysis, and reporting.
Explore building pivot tables to analyze Amex customer data by day, calculating total orders, unique customers, average purchase price, gross revenue, and average cost per order to reveal trends.
Learn to sort and filter in Google Sheets with both the old toolbar and the new sort, sortn, and filter functions, including top ten and conditional views.
Explore dynamic sorting and filtering in Google Sheets, using a mobile gaming data example to build reusable, user friendly filters and sortable views for others.
Explore visualizing data in Google Sheets with line, area, column, bar, pie, histogram, scatterplot, heat map, and geo map charts, and learn to choose visuals by your data goals.
Discover how to create and customize charts in Google Sheets, from selecting data and data ranges to inserting charts and choosing bar, pie, histogram, or geo map visuals.
This lecture demonstrates creating amazing visuals in Google Sheets, including geo heat maps, population maps, column and bar charts, and histograms with color scales and buckets.
Practice data validation in Google Sheets, validating dates, URLs, and a checkbox to-do list, with optional progress; then apply what-if analyses and a dropdown filter for dynamic data slicing.
Master dynamic data validation and interactive dashboards in Google Sheets, using date and URL validation, checkboxes, and dynamic dropdowns for category-based analyses.
Learn to identify and fix common Google Sheets errors, from hash tag errors to divide by zero, practice with lookups, and use the if error function to keep spreadsheets pristine.
Learn how the iferror function cleans spreadsheets by replacing any error with a chosen value or text, using lookups, filters, and divide-by-zero scenarios to keep data tidy.
Name and use named ranges in a dumpling stand dataset. Compute total customers, dumplings, revenue, and averages like order size and tip, then prepare for vlookup and index match.
Learn how to use vlookup and hlookup in Google Sheets to pull the year moved in and rent increase for housing data, with examples using named ranges and exact matches.
Learn how to combine text in Google Sheets using concatenate, cat, and ampersand, and master upper, lower, and proper casing for clean titles and sentences.
Explore Google Sheets text functions join, split, and transpose to efficiently extract first and last names from a cell, using delimiters and orientation changes.
Master the trim function in Google Sheets to remove leading and trailing spaces, then split, transpose, and join with a bar delimiter before sorting data.
Explore date functions in Google Sheets, including today, day, month, year, weekday, and end of month, and learn to apply edate and eomonth for monthly date calculations.
Create an interactive Google Sheets calendar using date functions such as today and today plus one, with filter and join to map to-dos like dentist visits, doctor appointments, and holidays.
In this course you will learn the fundamentals of Google Sheets (some of which translates to Microsoft Excel!). You will not only learn the basics, like adding and subtracting. But you will also learn valuable advanced formulas like VLOOKUP, INDEX(MATCH()MATCH()), and IMPORTRANGE.
Never heard of those before? Don't worry! I start from the beginning - so those terms will become clear when the time is right.
Along the way, you will develop an amazing spreadsheet toolkit. Wondering what tools will be in that toolkit? Check out the list below for some highlights of the course:
Learn the basics like how to create a Google Account and a Google Spreadsheet
Arithmetic Functions like SUM, COUNT, and AVERAGE
Shortcuts like filling formulas across THOUSANDS of cells
Advanced charts & Beautiful Visualizations
PIVOT TABLES - though I don't particularly like them...
Advanced functions like INDEX MATCH MATCH and IMPORT RANGE
QUERY, the function that DOES IT ALL!
Ultimately, the point of this course is to get some awesome skills for professional or personal use. And - above all - have fun doing it!
My course isn't like a lot of other online Excel or Google Sheet courses. Most of these courses force you to watch them build things and hope that you understand what they are doing. Instead of that old model, I've incorporated everything I've learned from my experience in the real professional world to make this the best online Google sheets course. The course includes:
Lectures
Activities
Projects
Exercises
Slides
Comprehensive Workbooks WITH Answer Keys
Extra Learning Resources
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Sign up today and see how fun, exciting, and rewarding web development can be!
There are some updates to Google Sheets like Tables and others. We may be adding more content to the course to address these - stay tuned!