Google Sheets, the popular spreadsheet application, has added a new feature that allows users to add colorful chips to their sheets. The chips can be used to represent different data points, and they can be customized to match the user’s preferences. The new feature is available in the “Data” tab of the application’s interface. Users can add chips by clicking on the “Add a Chip” button and selecting one of the available colors. They can then customize the appearance of their chip by selecting a font, size, and color. The addition of colorful chips is an interesting addition to Google Sheets. It allows users to more easily identify different data points and makes it easier for them to see patterns in their data. The ability to customize chips makes them even more useful, as users can create sheets that are specifically tailored to their needs. ..
Spreadsheets are useful for a lot of things, and among those uses, there’s project/task managing. Google Sheets is one of the most easily accessible and useful spreadsheet services, and now, it’s getting a little friendlier for task management purposes as well.
Google has announced that Sheets is gaining support for dropdown chips. You can add dropdown chips to cells within your spreadsheet and assign different colors, serving as an additional visual indicator and letting you know the status of something at a glance. In a way, they look very similar to the dropdown chips that are used often in proper task-managing services like Asana and Airtable.
The workflow for creating these chips, and all other data validation rules, has also been changed. Now, any rules that have been established in a certain Sheets tab may be seen, edited, and new rules can be added from a sidebar view. According to Google, this workflow is now similar to how you establish rules for named ranges, protected ranges, and conditional formatting.
It’s important to point out that Sheets already had support for dropdown items in menus. If anything, this seems to be building on top of that by making those dropdowns easier to create, as well as adding the colored “chip” visual element — as of right now, they were pretty much just text items.
This feature is rolling out now, and it should be available on everyone’s Sheets within the next 15 days.
Source: Google
