Google Sheets & Forms - Beginner to Expert

A short introduction to Google Sheets from Joe Buchmann.

Google Sheets is an online spreadsheet app that lets you create and format spreadsheets and simultaneously work with other people.

Here are a few things you can do with Google Sheets:

• Import and convert files to a Google spreadsheet
• Export to various file formats
• Use formula editing to perform calculations on your data
• Use formatting make your sheets look the way you want them to
• Chat in real time with others who are editing your spreadsheet
• Create charts with your data

In this lesson we'll learn how to create new sheets and get them set up. 

Things we'll cover include:

• Create new sheets
• Import and convert
• Sharing
• Page setup
• Preferences
• Document history

Now that we know how to create and set up a sheet, we'll learn how to edit it. 

We'll talk about:

• Paint format
• Text styles
• Font styles
• Alignment and spacing 
• Lists and indentation
• Links

Commenting can be a powerful tool for collaboration. In this section we'll talk about how comments work in Sheets.

We'll take a look at:

• Adding, editing and viewing comments
• Sending comments to specific people
• Replying to comments
• Closing and re-opening comments
• Managing comment notifications

In this lesson we'll talk about how to format your sheet for printing, as well as how to download to various formats. 

The ability to filter data in Sheets is a very powerful tool for being able to analyze data in various formats. We'll talk about the differences between filters and filter views, as well as how to use both of them. 

By the end of this lesson you will be able to set up filters, filter views, and share filter views to specific people.

Charts are an important part of Sheets that allow you to visually depict your data in an appealing way. In this lesson we'll talk about how to insert a chart, as well as make quick and advanced edits. 

By the end of this lesson, you will be able to insert and edit charts. 

In this lesson we'll take a look at some of the common chart types. This includes:

• Bar charts
• Scatter plot
• Pie charts

By the end of this lesson, you will understand how to create and manipulate each of these chart types. 

Google Sheets supports cell formulas typically found in most desktop spreadsheet packages. These formulas can be used to create functions that manipulate data and calculate strings and numbers.

In this lesson we'll cover:

• Auto functions
• Creating formulas
• Selecting and editing ranges
• Nested functions
• Formula highlighting
• The formula bar

By the end of this lesson you will understand how formulas work, as well as how to apply them to your data. 

In this lesson we'll take a look at some of the ways we can work with data in Sheets. 

We'll talk about:

• Splitting data into columns
• Adding and editing named ranges
• Protecting sheets and ranges

Now that we know how to set up, edit, and manipulate our sheets, it's time to take a look at some tips and advanced items. 

We'll take a look at:

• Adding images
• Updating Excel spreadsheets with a Chrome extension
• Emailing copies as attachments
• Using add-ons
• Finding and applying templates

A short intro to Google Forms from Joe Buchmann.

Google Forms is an easy to use tool for creating web forms, surveys, or online tests. Anyone can create a web form and tie it to a spreadsheet, without having to know any programming. 

As will other Google apps, you can also collaborate with multiple people on a form at the same time.

Here are a few things you can do with Google Forms:

• Manage event registrations
• Create an opinion poll
• Collect email addresses for a newsletter
• Create a pop quiz

In this lesson we'll talk about how to create a form and start setting it up.

We'll cover the following items:

• Creating a new form
• Adding a description
• Form settings
• Color and themes

By the end of this lesson you will know how to start a new form, and get it set up how you want.

Now that we can set up a form, we need to add some questions. 

In this lesson we'll cover:

• Adding titles
• Adding images and videos
• Changing the order of elements
• Adding new questions
• Types of questions

By the end of this lesson you will have an understanding of the various types of questions available in Forms, as well as how to use them in your form.

With Google Forms, you can make sure that respondents fill out answers according to rules that you set. For example, you can tell Google Forms to accept only email addresses in a short answer question

In this lesson we'll cover the following validation topics:

• Validation settings
• Text validation
• Checkbox validation

By the end of this lesson you will understand how validation works, as well as be able to add questions to your form to be validated.

You can divide your form into sections to control how respondents interact with the form. This allows you to do things such as send users to different sections based on their answers. For example, you can send users who answer "Yes" to a question to page three of your form while sending users who answer "No" to page four.

In this lesson we'll see how to add sections and control responses.

There are a few ways to send your form to people to start filling it out. In this lesson we'll take a look at those, as well as how to collect responses.

We'll cover the following items:

• Ways to share the form
• Pre-populating form answers
• The responses tab
• Spreadsheet responses
• Pausing responses
• Response options

By the end of this lesson you will understand where responses go, how to view them, and how to control where they go.

In this lesson we'll take a look at how to install and use add-ons. We'll also learn how to use one of my favorite add-ons, Form Publisher.

Google forms allows you to let people upload files when responding to your form. We'll see how to do that in this video.

This video is also available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/FGhvycPp0_o

A short thank you video from Joe Buchmann