Google Sheets Excel Shortcuts & Trace Formula
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CRX ID
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Status
- Extension status: Featured
- Extension status: In-App Purchases
- Live on Store
Description from extension meta
SheetWhiz brings Trace Precedents & Dependents, Goal Seek, What-If, Macabacus format cyclings, and Excel & PPT shortcuts to Google
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Key features include:
• Excel and PowerPoint shortcuts in Google Sheets and Slides, fully customizable on Mac and PC
• Trace Precedents and Trace Dependents to instantly see formula relationships and navigate with arrow keys
• Goal Seek and What-If analysis for financial models, budgets, and forecasts
• Format Cycling to apply consistent number formats, company colors, and indentation cycles, similar to Macabacus and Arixcel
• Export Selection as Image to copy cells into Slides or Docs while preserving formatting and linking to the source
• Auto-Color to highlight hardcoded inputs and linked cells for faster spreadsheet audits
Why SheetWhiz:
• Familiar to anyone who has used Excel add-ins like Macabacus, Arixcel, FactSet, or CapIQ, but built specifically for Google Sheets and Slides
• Designed for finance and operations teams who rely on Excel speed but work in Google Sheets
• Works across Mac and Windows with native key mappings
• Customizable shortcuts and formatting cycles to match your workflow
• Secure and private: SheetWhiz never sees or stores your spreadsheet data and is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant
Full Shortcuts List:
• Trace Precedents
• Trace Dependents
• Goal Seek
• What-If Data Sensitivities
• Paste Special (Formulas, Values, etc.)
• Insert & Delete Columns / Rows + Option to Always Select FULL Rows & Columns
• All Border Shortcuts
• Autofit & Set Column Width & Row Height
• Align Center, Left, Right, Top, Middle, Bottom
• Increase & Reduce Decimals
• Font Shortcuts
• Show / Hide Gridlines
• Export Selection as Image
• Auto-Color Selection & Sheet
• Add / Remove Filters and Filter Dropdown Menu
• Number Cycles
• Font Color Cycle
• Cell Fill Cycle
• Wrap, Clip, Overflow Text
• Freeze & Unfreeze Columns / Rows
• Merge & Unmerge Cells
• Google Slides - Bring to Front, Send to Back, Bring Forward, Send Backwards
• Google Slides - Distribute Horizontally & Vertically
• Google Slides - Align Objects Left, Center, RIght, Top, Middle, Bottom
• Google Slides - Align Text Left, Center, RIght, Top, Middle, Bottom
• Google Slides - Font Shortcuts
• Google Slides - Grouping Shortcuts
All new installs include a 21-day free trial of the Pro plan. After the trial you continue on the Free plan with core formatting shortcuts, with the option to upgrade anytime.
Latest reviews
- Anthony Wakim
- The app works well, but I took off a star due to the value proposition. I just needed this extension to trace dependence. While it does a good job of this. I can't justify paying $90/year just for that feature. All my other shortcuts can be programmed through Karabiner (macbook). Perhaps offer a smaller package for the most basic features? I don't need all the bells and whistles. Also, the "Export as Image" feature seems like a great idea. However, when I go to paste it, it only pastes as a link and not an image.
- Scott Foubister
- This extension is a game-changer! It accelerated my transition from Excel to Sheets, and makes working with spreadsheets in Sheets soooo much faster & easier. Would love to see it available for Firefox as well.
- Noah Kiejdan
- Incredible!
- Leopoldo Belloni
- This is actually an extremely underrated extension, the installation is so easy a kid could do it, and assigning shortcuts is so easy. I didn't even mention it covers all actions in sheets/excel, it's fantastic! Although I would change the UI of the app and the icon, which is just a compressed box on the top right corner, and the UI when you open it can be simplified, and made a bit user friendly. Despite this I'm still giving it 5/5, great job!
- O P
- I feel like this is a lesser used feature so wanted to highlight that I LOVE export selection as image. I can't stand having to screenshot everything myself every time and then not remembering where I screenshot the image from. Just having the ability to quickly copy and paste a linked screenshot of my data is such a mental-headache saver. 5/5
- Aman Mishra
- AMAZING! Having to switch from excel to google sheets, lack of customizable shortcuts was my biggest challenge. Took me a lot longer to finish my work. I found out about this after a gruesome few months of doing my work, and it was LIFE CHANGING. Absolutely amazing. I started with the free trial to make sure it had everything I was looking for and it absolutely did! P.S. They have a slack community where you can interact with others using the product and the team to ask questions and provide direct feedback and requests.
- kamal kalim
- NICE
- Henry Hamada
- Huge time saver, especially all the cyclings Trace precedents is extremely helpful. Same with dependents. Hard to believe Google hasn't built either out fully yet UI could be better Using a Mac so especially helpful since Mac is incompatible with most shortcuts
- Alt Man
- TRIAL VERSION. Buried in the description near the bottom it tells you, but after 25 days, you lose some features (including tracing). In my opinion it is clearly misleading to bury the lead on this, intended to make you get used to using the features and then make you pay for them at a later date. It would be okay if either in the promotional images (ie: the first one) or in the title you made it clear it was a trial version.
- Vamsee Ravella
- Hi, The login button when pulled up in google sheets does not load into a login screen, it's just a dead image. Do you know of any fixes? Thanks!
- Lucas Miller
- This is the best extension I've ever used. By a mile. I work in finance and it saves me time every single day. It's so good that it's converted me from a lifelong Excel junkie to a Sheets evangelist. I even recently moved all my clients from Excel to Sheets. Please do yourself a favor and give this a try if you use Sheets.
- Conner Vickery
- As a big data cruncher at work and for my side projects, I've really come to rely on this tool. Working without sheetwhiz would be like riding a bike without pedals at this point.
- Brit Ness
- Simple and it actually works!
- Daniel Weng
- This is a must-have extension for G Sheets. Huge fan of the ability to cycle formats. Number and font cycles bring back some of the MS Excel power-user features back (e.g., (1) vs. -1 and zero's represented by a “-“ vs. "0", blue = hardcode, green = links, black = formula, among many other great features). Trace precedents/dependents are incredible - It's nearly impossible to do anything remotely productive in Sheets w/o this. Really seamless and saves so many unnecessary clicks and time!
- 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!
- 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!
- Isabelle T
- Super useful extension - especially for folks who are used to Excel and moving to Sheets. I mainly use the tool to resize columns and trace precedents and it works well for both use cases.
- 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✨
- 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✨
- 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!
- 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!
- 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!!!
- 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!!!
- Jim Bean
- Models and analysis are harder in Google Sheets without my shortcuts! The Paste Special pop up with paste formulas, values, formatting = huge!
- Jim Bean
- Models and analysis are harder in Google Sheets without my shortcuts! The Paste Special pop up with paste formulas, values, formatting = huge!
- Pitchaya “Nat” Chairuengjitjaras
- Love the paste special shortcut! Can customise your own shortcuts - even better than Excel.
- Pitchaya “Nat” Chairuengjitjaras
- Love the paste special shortcut! Can customise your own shortcuts - even better than Excel.
- Jessica Mark
- The functionality is perfect and makes google sheets so much easier to use!
- Jessica Mark
- The functionality is perfect and makes google sheets so much easier to use!
- Anika Ranginani
- Great trace precedents functionality!
- Anika Ranginani
- Great trace precedents functionality!
- 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!
- 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!
- 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.
- 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.
- Henry Wang
- Sweet tool, very helpful!
- Michael Doudy
- Very helpful tool!
- Michael Doudy
- Very helpful tool!
- Guy Wassather
- I've been looking for a tool like this, it's already saving me time!
- Guy Wassather
- I've been looking for a tool like this, it's already saving me time!
- 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
- Freddy
- Really love the trace precedents tool. I use it for my data analysis and model building.
- Freddy
- Really love the trace precedents tool. I use it for my data analysis and model building.
- Eric Wang
- Great tool, saves me loads of time every day
- Eric Wang
- Great tool, saves me loads of time every day
- James Serena
- Great stuff for ex wall st / consulting folks that need to use sheets now!
- James Serena
- Great stuff for ex wall st / consulting folks that need to use sheets now!
- Erika Danielle Lim Hao
- Super helpful tool
- Erika Danielle Lim Hao
- Super helpful tool
- 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!