Google workspace Posts 1–5 of 8

  • Stop Creating Decorative Spreadsheets

    Tuesday, Nov 11, 2025
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    Spreadsheets are arguably the best thing to come out of the computer age. Spreadsheets were the first killer app for computers. Good spreadsheets are powerful, well organized and, most importantly, useful. Decorative spreadsheets, on the other hand, give the appearance of being useful but in reality resist any kind of deeper analysis or utilization. Let me clarify what separates the two and help you avoid creating the latter.

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  • Using Svelte with Google Apps Script

    Sunday, Nov 2, 2025
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    Earlier this year I wrote about my love of Google Apps Script to automate Calendar, Docs and Sheets. I recently looked into taking Google Apps Script even farther, leveraging its ability to serve HTML. Specifically, though, I wanted to see if I could build single-page apps (SPAs) using Svelte, my preferred UI framework. Turns out, you can and it’s really easy!

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  • Google Apps Script for Fun and Profit

    Sunday, Jun 29, 2025
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    If you use Google Workspace, you should know about the amazing Google Apps Script functionality that lets you automate tasks, create custom functions, and build web apps. Read on for examples and tips on how to get started.

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  • Ghost meetings are a growing RTO problem but Google could fix it

    Sunday, Apr 20, 2025
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    The conference room shows a meeting about to start, but the room is totally empty. Where are all the attendees? Is everyone just running late? Nope, they’re all working from home today, but no one thought to remove the conference room from the meeting invite! Google could fix this problem, or allow us to fix it ourselves, but we need to bring their attention to it! Read more to find out how.

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  • Google Slides Power User Tips

    Friday, Aug 30, 2024
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    Google Slides may not have all the fancy graphical animations that Powerpoint supports, but the vast majority of business presentations we use it for, it's great. That said, it does have some power-user capabilities that aren't very widely known yet. Hopefully these tips will help

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