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This is all about designing better within sheets. where info goes, how it is displayed, fonts, colors, borders, etc.

43Tutorials

Turning an infographic into a useful Copy Writing cheat sheet
Learn how Starter Story, and Pat Walls, created a report that is well designed and packed with information.

Get the report at starterstory.com/solopreneur
Quick intro to a better experience of using Google Sheets
Learn about "Oswald" the best font for headers. You might fall in love with this font as much as I've fallen in love with Karla (the font). It helps your headers stand out without having to do much coloring or more. A little change to your header font and your sheets will look better.
This lead magnet by the folks at Lemon.io is incredibly useful. 150 active VCs. I checked out their page and was like WHOA, what a site! In this video I turned their google sheet into an extension of their branding.
Learn to set text wrap, overflow, or clip. Great for designing better text in your sheets.
A calendar template designed like early Craigslist. A brutalism minimalist style calendar.
Get ready to shake things up, formula fanatics! Learn how to add a dark mode button to your Google Sheets with this dead simple trick. Using conditional formatting and a custom formula, you can turn on dark mode with just one click. Don't miss out on this cool feature! Made this really quick dark mode click button. And I wanted to show you how I did it because it's dead simple, super simple. It's literally just using conditional formatting
Add extra pizzazz. a little more snazz to your sheets. Make dashboards with very flexible drop shadows. A great google Sheet trick for any occasion.
to make better Dashboards consider merging cells.
10 Things I Hate About Your Spreadsheets and how to fix them. Here is a list of 10 things you can do today to make your sheets more lovable.

The 10 Things I Hate about your Sheets
  1. Squeezed Rows
  2. Garbage Data
  3. Looks The Same
  4. Crazy Column Width
  5. Where’s Waldo 
  6. Of Results
  7. Too Many Clicks
  8. Instructions Unclear
  9. Eye Strain and Headaches
  10. Lazy Conditional Formatting
  11. Too Many Cells
While the desktop version of Google Sheets does not have a dark mode, doesn't mean we can't make it ourselves. Create dark mode in one click. You'll learn to make a dark mode toggle.
While this advice and all well and good, try out Sheet Styles, a free Google Sheets Add-on that enables you to do this less contrast style in one click. https://sheet-styles.bettersheets.co/
Turn your sheets into web apps with interactive checkboxes. Make your sheets' UI better with more interaction.
Want to create sleek, stunning PDFs from your Google Sheets? Look no further! Learn how to easily export your sheets to PDF format and impress your audience. Create a PDF from your Google Sheet.
A quick video to share with you this theory. Consider repositioning your headers as labels in a dashboard.
Add visual flair to your Google Sheets when sharing company domain information. You’ll learn how to use an undocumented Google API. ( Easier than you think!)
Use neon blue to show where someone needs to enter data.
Reviewing a Corona hiring sheet. A great example of using Google Sheets. I have high praise for the design and the use of forms for data validation. The sheet makes great use of white space, circular image, and icons instead of text. While I suggest other ways to monetize the job board, I acknowledge the creator's decision to avoid exploiting the situation.
Incredible design and inspiration for us in our sheets.
I have no idea what to do as a user, so let's make it better.
Find out what fonts to use to make your headers better.
Your question is, you have these events and dates and statuses. And you want to turn them green actually you wanna turn them any, some color, the whole entire row based on if in this D column the status is closed.
We're gonna talk about some of the most basic keyboard shortcuts that incredibly time saving and are gonna make you so much faster when using Google Sheets.
You can change the row height in 5 different ways in a google sheet. Consider adding padding around your text with more row height. and column width.
Set a different default font for each sheet you open.
An optical illusion in Google Sheets and how to fix it.
you might actually find something new and interesting about it. We're just changing the column width.
Let's figure out how a sheet is structured.
Make your Google Sheets visually appealing and easier to understand with our expert tips on using gridlines, border styles, and colors. Learn how to create a professional-looking spreadsheet that effectively communicates your data to your audience. Boost your productivity today! We're gonna be talking about how to communicate better with grid lines, border styles, and border colors. Really interesting thing happens when you hide grid lines. You lose the grid, and I'll show you how to add that in. And some really interesting things you can do with different styles of border.
Very quick interesting little keyboard shortcut where you might not even know it exists. Repeat what you're doing, over and over again.
how to create an auto-updating sales chart that displays the trailing 12 months of data in Google Sheets. The tutorial uses a sample dataset to demonstrate how to build a dynamic chart that updates automatically as new data is added.
Let's start at the basics of Google Sheets. Where every beginner spreadsheet expert starts!
tactics on how to keep your sheets secure.
Autofill inside of google sheets is possible with Dropdowns.
Track your goals with a thermometer.
Create fun funky bullet points to get your point across better. Put emojis in your sheets to bring them to life.
Having trouble with ppl filling in cells before other cells?
This video covers how a user would use Smarket to list items to be sold and then unlist those items to be sold. It uses two different forms for the listing and the unlisting. The key connection is that you use a unique number, or a unique text when entering the item to be sold. Then use that item to delist it once it's been sold. Also you can wait 7 days, and the item will be unlisted.
Combine Databases and Backup Your Information Effortlessly - Learn how to merge two databases and compare backups with ease. Get all the information you need from past years and multiple sheets. Follow our step-by-step guide and simplify your data management today! 
Turning a drab sheet into a fab sheet. Transform your job search with this amazing job application tracker template! Get it now from the Land of Random newsletter and streamline your job hunt.