1.2 Creating your first spreadsheet

In this lesson

Google account, Drive, new sheet, templates, naming, autosave.

Chapters

• 00:00 Welcome
• 00:23 What you need
• 00:42 Google Drive
• 00:59 New, Google Sheets, Blank spreadsheet
• 01:16 Your new spreadsheet
• 01:33 Give it a name
• 01:50 Type your first data
• 02:15 Autosave: there is no Save button
• 02:35 Three ways to start a sheet
• 02:54 The template gallery
• 03:12 Open a template
• 03:29 Find your files in Drive
• 03:45 Your Turn

Your turn

Open the practice file for this lesson and follow the steps. Create a new spreadsheet from Drive, name it Weekly Grocery List, type the headers Item, Store and Price, and add five items. Tick each step on the Your Turn tab.

Practice files

Download Module-01-Getting-Started-with-Google-Sheets-Practice-Files.zip from the Practice resources tab and open Lesson_1_2_Practice.xlsx (folder Lesson 1.2). Upload it to Google Drive and open it with Google Sheets, or use File > Import in Google Sheets, then follow along with the video.

All data in this course is fictional US business data.