It can be very frustrating getting an Excel document into Google Sheets. I'm gonna show you a couple of things about it that can save you time and headache. So we have a Excel file in our Google Drive in a folder. I literally just clicked it in my computer, clicked and drag. Put it in here, dropped it in, and when I open it it might take a few minutes or moments to open and it might look like this. And the key here, and I wanna point out the key here is up at the top title. Right next to the title, it says, do XLSX . It says Excel . Format and it shows you there that if, if, if you have some issues with your sheet and it doesn't have the Google sheet stuff, this is your issue, you can

click it and see it's office formatted. And I think what you need to do. A lot of times you're going to not have capabilities to do certain things and you want to do them to this. You're like, it's a Google sheet. I can do this Google Sheet. You watch some videos of mine on Better sheets, on the Better sheets.co or on YouTube, wherever you are, you're like, I wanna do that thing and it, I don't have that thing. All you have to do is go up to file and click save as Google Sheets. Now it's gonna create a new. File. You can even go back to the folder and see there is a xlsx file and a Google Sheets file. And now this Google sheet is a Google sheet. The your Excel file has become a Google sheet, and now it

has all of the possibilities. For example, you can see at the top there is no extensions tab. On the Google sheet, there is an extensions tab and I can open app script and I can use add-ons. I can do app sheet, I can create macros. All of this in the Google Sheets file, not in the Excel file. So this is a key difference that if you have an Excel file and you're using it in a Google sheet and you wanna use it as a Google sheet, make sure you save it as a Google sheet. And now the Google Sheet you can see, doesn't have the option to save as a Google sheet, but your Excel file now has become a Google sheet. Hopefully that helps you with a little bit of headaches, a little bit of frustrations, gets you through that, and you can open your Excel files as Google Sheets now, not just inside of Google Sheets. You are watching better sheets here on YouTube.

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