Get started with Spreadsheet

Start Spreadsheet for your business, make your first spreadsheet, find your way around the editor and the list of spreadsheets.

Start Spreadsheet

Open All Apps > Spreadsheet. The business owner starts it for the business and becomes its first Admin. Every new business gets a 14-day trial of every feature, with no card; after it you move to the Free plan or the plan you choose.

Spreadsheet starts with one spreadsheet, Getting started, with a few formulas and a chart to show the way. Change it or move it to the bin.

Make a spreadsheet

Open Spreadsheets in the menu and press New spreadsheet. You can also:

Start from a template - Templates has ready spreadsheets: a monthly budget, a cash flow forecast, sales by month, profit and loss by month, money owed to you, stock value, the sales pipeline, counter sales by day and support tickets. Templates that read your apps' data show Live from your apps; one that needs an app you don't use (or have no role in) can't be picked.
Open a file - an Excel (.xlsx, .xls), OpenDocument (.ods) or CSV file becomes a new spreadsheet. See Excel and CSV files.

The editor

At the top, the name (click it to rename), the star, and Saved once your changes are kept. On the right, Dashboard and Share.
The menus: File, Edit, View, Insert, Format, Data, App data and Help.
The toolbar: undo, number format, font size, bold, colours, borders, alignment, wrap, merge, sum, functions, filter, conditional formatting, chart, app data and comments.
The formula bar shows what is in the selected cell. The box on its left shows the cell address - type an address (B7, A1:C9, Sheet2!A1) or a named range and press Enter to go there.
The sheet tabs at the bottom. + adds a sheet; right-click a tab to rename, copy, move, colour, hide or delete it.
When you select more than one cell, the bottom right shows their sum, average and count.

Spreadsheets save themselves a moment after each change. Press Ctrl+S to save at once.

Typing in cells

Select a cell and type. Press Enter to go down, Tab to go right. Double-click a cell (or press F2) to change what is in it.

Numbers like 1,250.50, 15%, ₹1,200, dates like 14/11/2026 or 2026-11-14, and times like 9:30 are understood and formatted for you.
Start with = for a formula: =B2*C2, =SUM(B2:B20). See Formulas and functions.
Start with ' to keep something as text, for example '0091.
A web address becomes a link.

The list of spreadsheets

Spreadsheets shows Recent, Mine, Shared with me, Team (everyone can open them), Starred and Dashboards. Search by name at the top. Admins and Managers make team folders; spreadsheets in a team folder are open to the whole team.

Bin keeps spreadsheets you delete for 30 days - restore them from there, or delete them for good.