How to Use spreadsheet in a Sentence

spreadsheet

noun
  • Freezing the top row of your spreadsheet is a good place to start.
    Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2023
  • That’s when one player’s name seemed to jump off the page on my spreadsheet.
    Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Or add rows to a spreadsheet, then send them as a Slack message.
    Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Attached was a spreadsheet of items for sale: LED grow lights for $500 apiece.
    Gene Johnson, oregonlive, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Set up a spreadsheet to record the progress toward debt freedom.
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Well, these are spreadsheet assumptions, and, of course, the real world is a lot messier.
    Glenn Ruffenach, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2022
  • The spreadsheet did not contain the state’s reasons for denying the two requests.
    Jeff Barker, Baltimore Sun, 9 June 2023
  • He’s been recording his mood ranking in a spreadsheet for all that time.
    Chloe Taylor, Fortune, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Almost all charts and graphs are confusing, and the sight of a spreadsheet on screen makes people crazy.
    John Lowe, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
  • But that data needs to be composable; it shouldn’t be stuck in PDFs and spreadsheets.
    Gary Iles, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The Power Point presentation was good enough and so was the spreadsheet.
    Paula Marantz Cohen, WSJ, 16 Sep. 2022
  • All the information from open sources ends up on a huge spreadsheet.
    Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2022
  • Hey, ever catch that mate who’s daydreaming of the golf course more than spreadsheets?
    Cristian Esteban, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Keeping track of all this data might be difficult on your own—even with the help of a spreadsheet.
    Anna-Louise Jackson, wsj.com, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The police had designed the Excel file to fetch that image from their own server when the spreadsheet was opened.
    Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Near the end of the year, the El Faro newsroom gathered to review a spreadsheet with reporters’ names and the dates their phones were infected.
    Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The drama and emotion and panic and love were reduced to data on a spreadsheet.
    Liz Meriwether, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Instead, poll workers will record their time worked on a spreadsheet.
    Dallas News, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Then plug those items into a spreadsheet and start to assign guesstimate costs to each.
    Laura Fenton, House Beautiful, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The search also unfolded online, where many turned to a spreadsheet on Google Drive to search for loved ones.
    Alexandra E. Petri, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The bigger screen allows users to see more spreadsheet cells or Slacks at once, or to comfortably watch a movie.
    WIRED, 24 July 2023
  • Zhang had even made a spreadsheet of her favorite doughnuts.
    Laurie Ochoa, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2023
  • After poring over the giant spreadsheet, here are some things that stand out.
    Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Set up a meeting with your manager and present your spreadsheet and case.
    Lynne Curry | Alaska Workplace, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Aug. 2023
  • There are two Logan Cunninghams in the league, which can wreak havoc on a spreadsheet.
    Dylan Bumbarger, oregonlive, 11 Nov. 2022
  • These cars are built to entertain the person behind the wheel rather than fill a spreadsheet with big numbers.
    Car and Driver, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Your spreadsheet will be nothing more than a grid of checkboxes.
    Gene Marks, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
  • On one side, Varitek and Wong comb through notebooks, spreadsheets, and metrics embedded in a binder.
    Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2023
  • Merchandising by spreadsheet alone takes away the creative eye of the merchant.
    Michael Forrest, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Case in point: Rachael Deane, a mother in Richmond, Virginia, has a summer-camp spreadsheet.
    Elliot Haspel, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2023

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