Benefits of Google Sheet:

Collaboration with Sheets

The benefit of using sheets over excel is the collaboration feature of the application which allow you and your colleagues to work in the same sheet at the same time. This in excel is not possible and will saver you time in your everyday work. With Google sheet you are able to link different sheets together using the import range feature of the application.

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Where Excel may be better than Sheets?

On the other hand, the main benefit of using excel over using sheets is that excel will allow you to process more bigger data sets which if used in Google will make the application crash.

Google sheets is overall better in the modern day of processing data where teams need to collaborate more digitally. But it all depends on the type of work. If wanting to do more advance techniques excel will be still a good tool to use.

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Drawbacks of Google Sheet:

Google account needed to access sheets

The main reason as to why you may be drawn towards using Excel over Google sheets is if you’re company works on the Microsoft Ecosystem. If you have an outlook email then you won’t be able to use Google sheets so will be more better to use Excel in that instance.

Processing large data can be difficult:

The same can be said for Excel, but what we’ve found is that Excel can process more information quickly than Google sheets, especially if you are using more advance formulas and techniques such as , Importranges. Another thing which can make Sheets slower than Excel is if you are regularly having a lot of people work in a file.

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Overall:

I believe the pros for using Sheets outweigh the cons the main being the ability to collaborate at once in sheets can really increase your businesses productivity and ensure that you are working towards you rgoals and providing the best service to the end customer. Sheets is a multi-purpose platform that can be used for other reasons than Finance and should be one of the tools that businesses are using at their disposal.

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