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Google Sheets Mastery

Build practical spreadsheet skills for analysis, automation, reporting, and team workflows

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Quick Course Facts
20
Self-paced, Online, Lessons
20
Videos and/or Narrated Presentations
7.0
Approximate Hours of Course Media
About the Google Sheets Mastery Course

Google Sheets Mastery is a practical Business course designed to help you work faster, cleaner, and more confidently in spreadsheets. You will learn how to organize data, write useful formulas, create reports, automate routine tasks, and support better team workflows in Google Sheets.

Build Practical Spreadsheet Skills For Business Analysis And Reporting

  • Build practical spreadsheet skills for analysis, automation, reporting, and team workflows
  • Learn formulas, functions, lookups, pivot tables, charts, dashboards, and data validation
  • Create cleaner spreadsheets that reduce errors and make Business decisions easier
  • Complete a capstone reporting workbook that brings your Google Sheets Mastery skills together

Google Sheets Mastery teaches the core spreadsheet skills needed for practical Business analysis, reporting, collaboration, and automation.

This course starts with the foundations of Google Sheets, including navigation, spreadsheet structure, data types, clean layouts, and professional formatting. You will learn how to make spreadsheets easier to read, easier to maintain, and more useful for everyday Business work.

From there, you will build practical spreadsheet skills for analysis, automation, reporting, and team workflows through formulas, ranges, math functions, text functions, date and time calculations, logical functions, and conditional calculations. You will also learn how to sort, filter, clean messy data, create dropdowns, use data validation, and prevent common spreadsheet errors before they affect your work.

As the course progresses, Google Sheets Mastery moves into analysis and reporting tools such as conditional formatting, XLOOKUP, VLOOKUP, INDEX MATCH, modern data-shaping functions, pivot tables, charts, scorecards, and dashboards. These lessons help you turn raw information into clear insights that support better Business communication and decision-making.

You will also learn how to collaborate effectively with sharing settings, permissions, comments, and protected ranges, then improve productivity by importing data, connecting spreadsheet workflows, and using macros and automation basics. By the end of the course, you will have completed a full reporting workbook and be able to use Google Sheets as a dependable Business tool for analysis, reporting, automation, and team collaboration.

Course Lessons

Full lesson breakdown

Lessons are organized by topic area and each includes descriptive copy for search visibility and student clarity.

Foundations

3 lessons

In this lesson, students get comfortable with the Google Sheets workspace before moving into formulas, analysis, automation, and reporting later in the course. The focus is on knowing where key tools …

Lesson 2: Spreadsheet Structure, Data Types, and Clean Layouts

20 min
This lesson establishes the habits that make every later Google Sheets skill easier: choosing the right sheet structure, recognizing how Sheets treats different data types, and designing layouts that …

Lesson 3: Formatting for Readability and Professional Use

17 min
In this lesson, students learn how to make Google Sheets easier to read, review, and share by applying professional formatting choices. The focus is not decoration; it is using formatting to clarify s…

Formula Fundamentals

4 lessons

Lesson 4: Cell References, Ranges, and Formula Basics

21 min
In this lesson, students learn how formulas in Google Sheets connect to cells and ranges. The focus is on reading references correctly, building simple formulas, selecting ranges with confidence, and …

Lesson 5: Essential Math and Summary Functions

19 min
In this lesson, students learn the essential math and summary functions that turn raw Google Sheets data into useful answers. The focus is on practical formulas such as SUM , AVERAGE , MIN , MAX , COU…

Lesson 6: Working with Text, Dates, and Times

22 min
In this lesson, Professor Mark Davis teaches the core Google Sheets formulas used to clean, combine, parse, and standardize text, dates, and times. Learners practice turning messy spreadsheet entries …

Lesson 7: Logical Functions and Conditional Calculations

22 min
This lesson teaches how to make Google Sheets formulas respond to conditions. Learners practice using comparison operators, IF, AND, OR, NOT, IFS, and IFERROR to classify records, flag exceptions, and…

Data Organization

3 lessons

Lesson 8: Sorting, Filtering, and Creating Useful Views

18 min
In this lesson, students learn how to turn messy spreadsheet tables into usable working views with sorting, filtering, filter views, and slicers. The focus is on organizing data without damaging the u…

Lesson 9: Cleaning Messy Data Efficiently

23 min
This lesson teaches a practical workflow for cleaning messy data in Google Sheets without damaging the original dataset. Learners will identify common data quality problems, standardize text, split an…

Lesson 10: Data Validation, Dropdowns, and Error Prevention

20 min
In this lesson, Professor Mark Davis shows how to use Google Sheets data validation to reduce entry mistakes, standardize categories, and make shared spreadsheets easier to use. Learners will build dr…

Analysis Tools

3 lessons

Lesson 11: Conditional Formatting for Fast Insight

18 min
This lesson shows how to use conditional formatting in Google Sheets to make patterns, exceptions, and priorities visible without changing the underlying data. Learners practice choosing the right rul…

Lesson 12: Lookup Functions: XLOOKUP, VLOOKUP, and INDEX MATCH

24 min
This lesson teaches practical lookup workflows in Google Sheets using XLOOKUP , VLOOKUP , and INDEX MATCH . Students learn how to retrieve related values from tables, choose the right lookup method, c…

Lesson 13: Combining and Reshaping Data with Modern Functions

23 min
In this lesson, students learn how to combine, reshape, and prepare data in Google Sheets using modern dynamic array functions. The focus is on practical analysis workflows: stacking monthly tables, s…

Reporting

3 lessons

Lesson 14: Pivot Tables for Summaries and Exploration

24 min
In this lesson, students learn how to use pivot tables in Google Sheets to summarize large datasets quickly, explore patterns, and answer reporting questions without writing formulas. The focus is on …

Lesson 15: Charts, Scorecards, and Visual Reporting

21 min
In this lesson, students learn how to turn spreadsheet data into clear visual reports using charts, scorecards, and focused dashboard-style layouts in Google Sheets. The emphasis is on choosing the ri…

Lesson 16: Building a Practical Dashboard

25 min
In this lesson, learners build a practical Google Sheets dashboard from an already prepared reporting dataset. The focus is not on advanced chart theory or complex automation, but on assembling a clea…

Collaboration

1 lesson

Lesson 17: Sharing, Permissions, Comments, and Protected Ranges

18 min
In this lesson, Professor Mark Davis teaches how to collaborate safely in Google Sheets using sharing settings, permission levels, comments, action items, and protected ranges. Learners will see how t…

Productivity Workflows

2 lessons

Lesson 18: Importing Data and Connecting Sheets Workflows

22 min
This lesson shows how to bring external data into Google Sheets and connect multiple spreadsheets into dependable workflows. Students learn when to use manual import, copy-based workflows, linked rang…

Lesson 19: Macros and Automation Basics

23 min
In this lesson, students learn how Google Sheets macros can remove repetitive spreadsheet work by recording actions and replaying them consistently. The focus is on practical automation basics: when t…

Applied Mastery

1 lesson

Lesson 20: Capstone: Build a Complete Reporting Workbook

25 min
In this capstone lesson, students build a complete reporting workbook that brings together clean source data, controlled inputs, analysis formulas, pivot-style summaries, charts, dashboard layout, doc…
About Your Instructor
Professor Mark Davis

Professor Mark Davis

Professor Mark Davis guides this AI-built Virversity course with a clear, practical teaching style.