Google Sheets Beginners: Grouping Rows and Columns (36)

When your Google Sheet spreadsheet starts to grow in complexity it is often a good idea to group similar parts of your data so you can easily collapse and expand them as you need them. Fortunately, Google Sheets has your back with the Grouping tool.

In this tutorial, we will look at how to group rows and columns in Google Sheets. We’ll also look at a few advanced capabilities and show you how to avoid some common traps.

Check it out!

This tutorial covers:

  1. 00:00 Intro
  2. 00:28 Example of grouped data
  3. 01:44 How column and row groupings work.
  4. 02:52 How to create groupings in Google Sheets
  5. 02:59 Grouping columns
  6. 04:03 Grouping adjacent columns and rows
  7. 05:13 undo grouping
  8. 05:38 Grouping rows
  9. 06:27 Sub or secondary groupings.

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Google Apps Script Course – Part 3: 2D Array Data Transformation of Multiple Question Items Data to Total Count of Rating Choices in Google Sheets

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<<Part 2                                         <<Intro>>

In our last tutorial, we grabbed the Google Sheets count data from a single rating survey question. We then displayed it two ways; horizontally with the question item at the top, or vertically with the question item to the side.

Google Sheete count data from rating survey

In part 3 of our Google Sheets data transformation with Google Apps Script course we are going to expand on our current work and add two more rating question items from our survey. Each survey will have the same 1. Weak to 5. Strong survey items.

Our new list of question items will include:

  • Rate your goat’s athleticism.
  • Rate your goat’s agility.
  • Rate you goat’s headbutt

All the information any self-respecting human companion for goats would know.

We’ll be updating our code to be able to take any number of item questions so long as they have the same choices.

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