This foundational Google Sheets training prepares technical or non-technical professionals to feel comfortable navigating and using Google Sheets to process data, write formulas and present data in persuasive and striking charts.
Most people don't tend to get very excited about spreadsheets. For plenty of people, spreadsheets are about as exciting as — well, hundreds and thousands of rows and columns of numbers.
But what usually gets people excited about spreadsheets is the meaning and value that can be pulled out of data. Google Sheets is a great spreadsheet tool that puts tools of explanation, revelation and persuasion into the hands of a skilled user. You can uncover unexpected profit losses, save yourself tons of time, and create striking imagery to prove your point.
This Google Sheets training helps make sure you know exactly how to. But watch out, it won't be long until you're one of those people who gets excited about spreadsheets.
For anyone who manages their training, this training can be used to onboard new technical or non-technical professionals, curated into individual or team training plans, or as a reference resource.
Google Sheets: What You Need to Know
This Google Sheets training covers Google Sheets topics including:
- Formatting data, charts and spreadsheets
- Writing formulas — simple and complex — that process data for you
- Extracting useful information from cold data with charts and data visualizations
- Discovering and uncovering meaning from data sets
Who Should Take Google Sheets Training?
This Google Sheets training is considered foundational-level training, which means it was designed for technical or non-technical professionals with no Sheets experience at all.
Google Workspace user training. If you and your team or your company rely on Google productivity tools, mastering Google Sheets is basically non-optional. It's more than a place to store data and numbers, it's an incredibly powerful tool for extracting meaning out of those numbers. And doing that isn't terribly complicated or challenging. This Google Sheets training is made for people who don't have extensive data science backgrounds: you'll be managing spreadsheets in no time.
New or aspiring IT professionals. If you're starting out your career, whether in an IT background or not, you might be surprised how much of your future career will probably include managing data in spreadsheets. With this Google Sheets training, you can help set up spreadsheets that can clock hours, keep track of workflows or production cycles, monitor efficiency and a lot more. It's up to you whether the parts of your future career that involve data are familiar and pleasant -- or confusing and awful.