How to make your first pivot table To start, navigate to Google Sheets and open the spreadsheet you want to work on. This example uses a coin collection because that's more interesting than ...

Google Sheets is a free web-based application and a popular alternative to Microsoft Excel. The tool allows to easily create, update, and modify spreadsheets.

Pivot tables in Google Sheets summarize smaller sets of data from a more extensive dataset and can be sorted by rows, columns, values, and filters.

Dropdowns are useful features that simplify data entry and enforce data validations in spreadsheet software. Creating a dropdown list is easy. And you might have done that already in Excel.

If you use Android, your spreadsheet of choice is likely Google Sheets. But data changes. Sometimes, you need to add data, delete old entries, and make adjustments based on updated information.