Sheets Insiders Members Archive

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Content Archive

πŸ“Œ Sheets Insiders 43: The last one… (4 September 2025)

  • Thank you!
  • An amazing SCAN formula + conditional formatting trick
  • Sheets Insiders Highlights

πŸ“Œ Sheets Insiders 42: Build Your Own Custom Apps for Google Sheets (28 August 2025)

  • Build custom Sheets apps with Gemini AI
  • Improved Notes app with logs, search feature, and hashtags

πŸ“Œ Sheets Insiders 41: Imitation as a shortcut to mastery in Sheets (21 August 2025)

  • Recreate Tools or Websites for Inspiration
  • Design: columns, whitespace, fonts, borders, dropdowns, IMAGE function, gridlines
  • Data: IMPORTHTML, LET, XMATCH, XLOOKUP, Named Functions, Image buttons with scripts

πŸ“Œ Sheets Insiders 40: A Fundamental Apps Script Lesson (14 August 2025)

  • Understanding one of the most difficult concepts of Apps Script, the order of operations
  • Concept of server side, batching UI updates
  • Spreadsheet flush method to control order

πŸ“Œ Sheets Insiders 39: The AI Function in Google Sheets (7 August 2025)

  • How to use the AI Function
  • 10 real-world examples with the AI Function
  • Who has access
  • What it can’t do

πŸ“Œ Sheets Insiders 38: Using Google Sheets Tables with Apps Script (31 July 2025)

  • How to use Tables with Apps Script
  • Introduction to Advanced Services
  • Introduction to the Sheets API

πŸ“Œ Sheets Insiders 37: Introduction to Looker Studio (24 July 2025)

  • What is Looker Studio?
  • Benefits of Looker Studio
  • Looker Studio chart tutorial

πŸ“Œ Sheets Insiders 36: More reader tips (17 July 2025)

  • Named Functions
  • Data Validation
  • Build Strings With Formulas
  • And more…

πŸ“Œ Sheets Insiders 35: Reader Ideas! (10 July 2025)

  • Highlight incomplete rows
  • Global commenting system
  • Filter with partial matching
  • Dynamic SUM
  • And more…

πŸ“Œ Sheets Insiders 34: Over to you! (3 July 2025)

  • Submit Your Favorite Tip

πŸ“Œ Sheets Insiders 33: The era of homemade add-ons / 3-D Formula References (26 June 2025)

  • 3D references formula in Google Sheets
  • How to build a sidebar add-on to do 3D references
  • Era of homemade add-ons

πŸ“Œ Sheets Insiders 32: Conditional Notifications (19 June 2025)

  • Conditional Notifications in Google Sheets
  • How to set up and use conditional notifications
  • How to build your own version with Apps Script, if you don’t have access

πŸ“Œ Sheets Insiders 31: Arrays are a key skill for advanced formulas (12 June 2025)

  • How to create arrays in Google Sheets with curly brackets { }
  • How to combine formulas with arrays
  • Examples of useful formula combinations using arrays
  • Sparkline with text overlay formula

πŸ“Œ Sheets Insiders 30: Custom actions using Gems from the Google Sheets sidebar (5 June 2025)

  • Access custom Gems from the Gemini sidebar in Google Sheets
  • How to build a Gems with custom instructions
  • How built a Gem to generate sparkline formulas from description

πŸ“Œ Sheets Insiders 29: Save TIME with this Automated Feedback Tool (15 May 2025)

  • Leverage AI to radically speed up time to share to feedback
  • Example using Education Data (student scores)
  • AI Formula in Sheets, Gemini, and Apps Script automation

πŸ“Œ Sheets Insiders 28: Roadmap, learning pathways, and CHOOSECOLS trick (8 May 2025)

  • Membership roadmap
  • Learning pathways for existing member content
    • A delightful CHOOSECOLS trick

πŸ“Œ Sheets Insiders 27: Use Apps Script To Build Utility Tools (1 May 2025)

To script or not to script: automation decision flowchart
  • Extract URLs from rich text cells with script
  • Make plain text links clickable in bulk
  • Using Apps Script & AI tools to create utility scripts

πŸ“Œ Sheets Insiders 26: Undocumented Functions (23 April 2025)

  • Undocumented Functions in Google Sheets
  • CONDITION_ONE_OF_RANGE Function
  • STRICT Date and Time Functions
  • REFERENCE Function
  • Easter Egg Functions

πŸ“Œ Sheets Insiders 25: Two Huge Workspace Announcements from the Google Cloud Conference (17 April 2025)

  • Google Workspace Flows
  • Help Me Analyze in Google Sheets

πŸ“Œ Sheets Insiders 24: Intermediate Skills Workshop (27 March 2025)

  • ⭐ Live session replay
  • Key data techniques
  • Benefits of Tables
  • LEFT, MID, DATE, IMPORTRANGE, XLOOKUP
  • Killer pivot table tricks

πŸ“Œ Sheets Insiders 23: Apps Script Vibe Coding 😎 (20 March 2025)

  • Upcoming workshop registration
  • What is vibe coding?
  • Vibe coding experiment with Google Apps Script
  • Build a color counting automation in Sheets

πŸ“Œ Sheets Insiders 22: NEW FUNCTION ALERT! And, How To Keep Up With AI In 2025 (13 March 2025)

  • Sneak peek at the new AI function
  • Resources to keep up-to-date with AI
  • New workshop announcement

πŸ“Œ Sheets Insiders 21: Unlocking the Secrets of LAMBDA Functions Workshop Replay (6 March 2025)

  • ⭐ Live session replay
  • Introduction to LAMBDA Functions
  • What they are and how they work
  • Demos of LAMBDA, BYROW, MAP, SCAN, and Named Functions

πŸ“Œ Sheets Insiders 20: Better Charts in Google Sheets Workshop Replay (27 February 2025)

  • ⭐ Live session replay
  • Introduction to Data Visualization
  • 4 key techniques for better charts
  • 3 chart demos to illustrate how these work

πŸ“Œ Sheets Insiders 19: Future of spreadsheets + IMPORT example (20 February 2025)

  • Using OpenAI’s Deep Research to write a whitepaper on the future of the spreadsheet industry
  • IMPORT formula to grab all the Sheets Insiders links on this page

πŸ“Œ Sheets Insiders 18: Advanced Chart Tutorial (13 February 2025)

  • Combo chart with columns and area
  • How to use data to create advanced charts
  • Sinusoidal curve formulas πŸ€“

πŸ“Œ Sheets Insiders 17: Brainpower still matters… for now (6 February 2025)

  • Cautionary tale of how AI can still make mistakes with relatively simple data tasks
  • How to solve using SPLIT, TOCOL and QUERY

πŸ“Œ Sheets Insiders 16: Beginner Apps Script workshop 3 (30 January 2025)

  • ⭐ Live session replay (workshop 3)
  • How the MAP function works in Apps Script
  • How to publish Internal Adds Ons to share scripts throughout your organization

πŸ“Œ Sheets Insiders 15: Beginner Apps Script workshop 2 (23 January 2025)

  • ⭐ Live session replay (workshop 2)
  • How to design and code with AI tools and Apps Script
  • Building our Table of Contents tool with Apps Script and AI

πŸ“Œ Sheets Insiders 14: Beginner Apps Script workshop (16 January 2025)

  • ⭐ Live session replay (workshop 1)
  • Best way to learn Apps Script in 2025
  • How to approach problems
  • How to leverage AI to accelerate learning path

πŸ“Œ Sheets Insiders 13 (9 January 2025)

  • Resources and reads on spreadsheets and AI

πŸ“Œ Sheets Insiders 12: Holiday Formula Challenge (19 December 2024)

  • January Schedule for the upcoming Apps Script workshops
  • Holiday formula challenge with dates and the SEQUENCE formula

πŸ“Œ Sheets Insiders 11: The Year in Sheets (12 December 2024)

Multiple Selections in Drop Downs in Google Sheets
  • Rundown of all Google Sheets feature releases during 2024

πŸ“Œ Sheets Insiders 10: Table Formulas + Combo Chart (5 December 2024)

  • How to use Tables formulas and benefits
  • How to create combo charts
  • How to add labels to charts

πŸ“Œ Sheets Insiders 9: Modern Analytical Functions Part II (21 November 2024)

  • ⭐ Live session replay
  • HSTACK and VSTACK examples
  • BYROW and LAMBDA
  • Bonus SPARKLINE trick with HSTACK

πŸ“Œ Sheets Insiders #8: Modern Analytical Functions (14 November 2024)

  • How to use HSTACK and VSTACK
  • How to create default values in cells
  • How to work with multi-select dropdowns and database functions

πŸ“Œ Sheets Insiders #7: Database Functions (7 November 2024)

  • ⭐ Live session replay
  • How to use Database Functions
  • Advanced criteria options

πŸ“Œ Sheets Insiders #6: Tables (31 October 2024)

  • Benefits of Tables
  • How to use Structured Table References in formulas
  • Advanced Tables formulas

πŸ“Œ Sheets Insiders #5: Dropdowns (24 October 2024)

  • Automatic dropdowns
  • Multi-select dropdowns
  • Dependent dropdowns with formulas and Apps Script

πŸ“Œ Sheets Insiders #4: AI Experiments (17 October 2024)

  • Three AI tools: Gemini, ChatGPT, and Julius
  • Prompting tips
  • Data analysis experiments
  • Formula generation

πŸ“Œ Sheets Insiders #3: User Interface Template (10 October 2024)

  • Built-in methods like checkboxes and dropdown menus
  • Specialized use cases with Apps Script
  • Experimental methods using formulas and clever formatting tricks

πŸ“Œ Sheets Insiders #2: Chart Tutorial (3 October 2024)

  • Why series (columns) of data are KEY to building charts
  • How to use β€œfiller” bars to float data
  • How to use formatting and drawings to make your charts visually pop!

πŸ“Œ Sheets Insiders #1: Visual Vocabulary Template (26 Sep 2024)

Google Sheets Visual Vocabulary
  • Google Sheets Visual Vocabulary template
  • Design tips
  • Show/hide technique for dashboards