Tinkering Within » google http://www.tinkeringwithin.com Constant tinkering with all sorts of stuff: Macs, PCs, audio, video, music, radio, web, phones... Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:18:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The next big step? Fantastic Google Spreadsheets feature http://www.tinkeringwithin.com/2008/03/10/the-next-big-step-fantastic-google-spreadsheets-feature/ http://www.tinkeringwithin.com/2008/03/10/the-next-big-step-fantastic-google-spreadsheets-feature/#comments Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:01:19 +0000 Muzo B http://www.tinkeringwithin.com/2008/03/10/the-next-big-step-fantastic-google-spreadsheets-feature/ Googledocsfeature
Google Spreadsheets has an outstanding feature hidden in the depths of its help pages.

It’s called GoogleLookup.

How does it work? Try this:

  • Open a Google Spreadsheet
  • Type Denmark in A2, France in A3 and Turkey in A4
  • Select A2:A4.
  • Holding the Ctrl (Win, Linux) or Ctrl+Option (Mac) button expand that selection by dragging the small blue square in the lower-right of the selection to, say, A20. Check this if you need more help.
  • Surprised? You’ve seen nothing yet.
  • Type capital in B2
  • Again, expand that to B20.
  • Then go to C2 and type =GoogleLookup(A2;B2)
  • Then again, expand that to C20.
  • :)))

You could also try doing different things, like typing Apple, Microsoft, Dell… in A2 and CEO in B2. Or even more!

I think this is very exciting! Microsoft should really start worrying for Office.

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