12 Facts About Google Sheets

Google Sheets is a spreadsheet program included as part of the free, web-based Google Docs Editors suite offered by Google.

Google Sheets is available as a web application, mobile app for: Android, iOS, Microsoft Windows, BlackBerry OS and as a desktop application on Google's Chrome OS.

Google Sheets originated from XL2Web, a web-based spreadsheet application developed by 2Web Technologies, founded by Jonathan Rochelle and Farzad “Fuzzy” Khosrowshahi.

In March 2010, Google Sheets acquired the online document collaboration company DocVerse.

In June 2012, Google Sheets acquired Quickoffice, a freeware proprietary productivity suite for mobile devices.

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Google Sheets is available as a web application supported on: Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari web browsers.

In June 2014, Google rolled out a dedicated website homepage for Sheets that contain only files created with Sheets.

In 2014, Google launched a dedicated mobile app for Sheets on the Android and iOS mobile operating systems.

In 2015, the mobile website for Google Sheets was updated with a "simpler, more uniform" interface and while users can read spreadsheets through the mobile websites, users trying to edit will be redirected towards the mobile app to eliminate editing on the mobile web.

Google Sheets serves as a collaborative tool for cooperative editing of spreadsheets in real time.

Google Sheets'sets app and the rest of the Google Docs Editors suite are free to use for individuals, but Google Sheets'sets is available as part of the business-centered Google Workspace service by Google, which is a monthly subscription that enables additional business-focused functionality.

Google Sheets Cloud Connect maintained previous Microsoft Excel document versions and allowed multiple users to collaborate by working on the same document at the same time.