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Creating a new Google Sheets spreadsheet is similar to creating a Google Docs document, just a few steps are needed to successfully create and open a Google Sheets spreadsheet. The steps to open and create a Google Sheet are as follows.
How to create an online Google Sheets Excel spreadsheet
How to open, create a Google Sheet online
Prerequisite: You need to have a Gmail account beforehand.
Instructions:
- Step 1: Visit THIS LINK to log in to Gmail. If you don't have a mail account yet, refer to the email signup article to create one. Enter your email/phone number in the 'Email or phone' field and click 'Next' (if using the Vietnamese interface, click 'Continue')
Enter your password in the 'Enter your password' field and then click 'Next'.
Note: You can click on 'Show Password' to check if your email password is correct. If you don't remember your email password, you can click on 'Forgot password' to recover it.
- Step 2: Look at the top right corner, click on the Grid icon (as shown below).
- Step 3: Proceed to click on 'Sheets'.
On the left side, click on the multicolored plus icon (Blank).
Note: Alternatively, if you want to access Drive, when clicking on the Grid icon, click on Drive (Image 1). Look at the bottom left corner, click on 'New' (Image 2) then click on 'Google Sheets' (Image 3) to create a new Google spreadsheet.
Once you've opened a Google spreadsheet, if you want to create multiple sheets, tables, or charts... you can do so similarly to Excel. After a few seconds of data entry, Google will automatically save the information you input, so even if your computer suddenly loses power, you won't lose your data.
How to save a Google spreadsheet
Google Sheets automatically saves after a few seconds when you input data. However, to easily and quickly find the Google spreadsheet you created, you need to save it with different names.
Save Google Spreadsheet
In the top left corner, click on 'Untitled spreadsheet' and then name it appropriately. Just a few seconds later, Google Sheets will automatically save it for you with the name you just set.
Save a Spreadsheet
To save a spreadsheet, follow these steps:
- Step 1: Look at the bottom of the interface, right-click on the spreadsheet, then click on 'Copy to' and click 'Existing spreadsheet'.
- Step 2: Drag to locate the spreadsheet you want to save, then click on it. Finally, click 'Select'.
That way, you've saved that spreadsheet to the Google Sheets you previously saved.
So what's Google Sheets Excel? It's an improvement over Excel. You can open and create new Google Sheets spreadsheets to replace Excel, which is convenient, especially for sharing with others. Additionally, you can use keyboard shortcuts to open a new Google Sheets spreadsheet.
- Learn more: Keyboard shortcuts for creating a new Google Sheets spreadsheet
