SheetWhiz brings Trace Precedents, Trace Dependents, Excel shortcuts, and format cycling (similar to Macabacus) to Google Sheets
➤ Excel Shortcuts on Google Sheets
Love your Excel shortcuts but can’t use them in Sheets? Now you can!
We brought the most frequently used shortcuts to Sheets so you no longer need to click around Sheets to accomplish what you would’ve been able to do with a couple keystrokes in Excel.
Not an Excel junkie? That’s okay too! We’ve defaulted these shortcuts to native Excel, but with SheetWhiz you’re able to customize formatting shortcuts to whatever works best for you. Just click on the shortcut key to modify it
Excel shortcuts are supported on both Mac and PC. ALT is replaced with Option on a Mac. CTRL on a PC maps to Control on a Mac (not Command)
• For shortcuts starting with ALT, press and release all keys in the order listed
• For shortcuts starting with CTRL, press all keys in the order listed and hold down until all keys have been pressed
➤ Trace Precedents on Google Sheets: Get Your Formulas Right
• See all the cells referenced in your formula in one window
• Quickly jump to every precedent cell using the up / down arrow keys
• Make spreadsheet edits without having to close the trace precedents window
• Dive a layer deeper and view the precedents of the precedents cells from the same window without having to rerun the tool. The right arrow key opens and left arrow key closes each layer
• Close the window by hitting "Esc." Never need to touch your mouse!
• Similar to the tracing precedents tools seen in plug-ins like Macabacus, Arixcel, Factset, and S&P Capital IQ on Excel
➤ Trace Dependents on Google Sheets: Modify Your Sheet with Confidence
• See all the cells that reference the cell that you’re on in one window
• Navigate to every dependent cell using the up / down arrow keys
• For large spreadsheets, you can run trace dependents on specific tabs to increase the speed of the tool vs. on the entire spreadsheet
• Close the window by hitting "Esc." Never need to touch your mouse!
• Similar to the trace dependents tools seen in plug-ins like Macabacus, Arixcel, Factset, and S&P Capital IQ
➤ Format Cycling: Be Faster on Google Sheets than Native Excel!
Tired of having to reformat negative numbers as (1) versus the Google Sheet default of -1.00? Need to color code numbers (e.g., Blue = Hard Code, Green = Link, Black = Formula)? Have company colors that you need to use but always need to import them into a Sheet?
Use our format cycles that allow you to quickly flip through number formats, font colors, and cell fills that you define and keep your formatting consistent in every analysis you do
➤ Export Selection as Image (Beta): Keep Your Cell Formatting When Exporting to Slides or Docs!
Ever need to export your analysis into Google Slides or Google Docs? Now you can quickly take a screenshot of your selection by hitting Ctrl + Shift + C. We are working on allowing the image to be updated once it has been pasted - stay tuned!
Our Full List of Customizable Shortcuts:
• Trace Precedents
• Trace Dependents
• Export Selection as Image (Beta)
• Insert & Delete Columns
• All Border Shortcuts (Remove, Bottom, Top, Left, Right, Outside, All, Inner, Horizontal, Vertical)
• Auto-Fit Column Width
• Auto-Fit Row Height
• Set Column Width
• Set Row Height
• Align Center, Left, Right, Top Middle, Bottom
• Increase & Reduce Decimals
• Add & Remove Filters
• Paste Special (Formula, Format, Value, Transposed, Column Width Only, All Except Borders)
• Show / Hide Gridlines
• Increase / Decrease Font Size
• Set Font Size
• Set Font
• Freeze / Unfreeze Rows & Columns (including together at the same time!)
• Merge / Unmerge
• General Number Cycle
• Percent Cycle
• Local Currency Cycle
• Multiples Cycle
• Font Color Cycle
• Cell Fill Cycle
When you install SheetWhiz, you’ll automatically be enrolled in our 21-day free trial of our Pro plan. After the trial is over, you’ll automatically be converted to our Free plan, which includes all the key native Excel formatting shortcuts, with the option to upgrade if desired
Finally, we know data privacy matters to you. There is no mechanism at SheetWhiz for us to see, edit, create, delete, or store any of the values in your spreadsheets or Google Drive files. You can view our Privacy Policy at https://www.sheetwhiz.com/privacy-policy and learn about our security controls and architecture by reading our Security Policy at https://www.sheetwhiz.com/security
Latest reviews
- (2023-11-28) Allen Wen: Amazing app. Makes working in gsheets tolerable (somewhat) - definitely a "must have" if you spend any time at all modeling or analyzing data! Great trace dependents tool - highly recommend!
- (2023-09-07) Ender Nova: Useful extension though it'd be nice to be able to change what colors we can cycle through as I love making my spreadsheets look ✨aesthetic✨
- (2023-04-17) Ally Nabbouh: So many great features brought over from excel to call out but the paste special and row/column insert/delete has saved us so much time in modelling and has allowed us to build more reports for non-excel users. Love this product!
- (2023-03-22) Jeehae Lee: SheetWhiz is a GAME CHANGER and the best Google Extension I've ever downloaded. You can do the same things you'd do in Excel but in Google Sheets now, including Google Sheet's paste special, resize column, format borders, trace precedents, etc. This tool is brilliant and has saved me a few hours per week. Highly recommend!!!
- (2023-03-20) Jim Bean: Models and analysis are harder in Google Sheets without my shortcuts! The Paste Special pop up with paste formulas, values, formatting = huge!
- (2023-03-18) Pitchaya Chairuengjitjaras: Love the paste special shortcut! Can customise your own shortcuts - even better than Excel.
- (2023-03-05) Jessica Mark: The functionality is perfect and makes google sheets so much easier to use!
- (2023-01-31) Anika Ranginani: Great trace precedents functionality!
- (2023-01-25) Emily Zhao: Super useful tool with lots of potential--Google Sheets is missing several valuable shortcuts and this extension bridges that gap. Looking forward to more functionality being added to this tool!
- (2023-01-23) Isabel Zhu: Super awesome tool, especially for those who come from excel-heavy backgrounds (investment banking, private equity, etc.). The toughest change for me when transitioning from finance to tech was the more Google Sheets-heavy usage in tech - the native shortcuts in Google Sheets are pretty limited, and there is no way to easily audit and trace precedents (down to several layers) in complex formulas / models. Sheet Whiz solves this exact problem. For anyone who's looking to be as efficient in Google Sheets as they are in Excel, Sheet Whiz is an awesome plug-in.
- (2023-01-20) Henry Wang: Sweet tool, very helpful!
- (2023-01-20) Michael Doudy: Very helpful tool!
- (2023-01-20) Guy Wassather: I've been looking for a tool like this, it's already saving me time!
- (2023-01-19) Lydia.S Chen: So glad somebody has invented this! Definitely solves a pain point and I find the Trace Precedents tools really helpful for auditing my models and catching errors
- (2023-01-18) Freddy: Really love the trace precedents tool. I use it for my data analysis and model building.
- (2023-01-18) Eric Wang: Great tool, saves me loads of time every day
- (2023-01-16) James Serena: Great stuff for ex wall st / consulting folks that need to use sheets now!
- (2023-01-16) Erika Danielle Lim Hao: Super helpful tool
- (2023-01-13) Jiaying Li: I inherited a financial model from my predecessor and had to quickly learn how it worked. The trace precedents tool made this incredibly easy and saved me many hours!
- (2023-01-13) Peter Sun: Great for the forecasting and regression models I've built in Sheets! Formulas are easy to audit with Trace Precedents
- (2023-01-13) Rae Peterson: A helpful tool for auditing my models. I like the fact that trace precedents can go more than a layer deep. An excellent Chrome extension.
- (2023-01-11) Darien Lee: Great tool - excited to use it!
- (2023-01-09) Robert Naruse: We build a lot of vertical models and this is so helpful in checking over everything and making sure everything flows correctly. Really needed this tool!
- (2023-01-07) Aillen You: Great trace precedents tool - would recommend!!
- (2023-01-06) Lamija H: Awesome trace precedents tool - would recommend to check any complex formulas
- (2023-01-05) Lily Peng: Received a v dense marketing performance tracking sheet from coworker and used this trace precedents tool to check it over and understand all the calculations. Caught some errors and saved a bunch of time!
- (2023-01-04) Bart Thomas: All Macabacus Trace Precedents users will love this tool. 5/5