How to get maximum value from Google Sheets

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Gone are the days when Microsoft Excel held a monopoly over the spreadsheet world. Google Sheets has proven itself an equally powerful and versatile data management program. Plus, it’s available for free while Excel is most definitely not. 
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Sheets will undoubtedly become more popular and ubiquitous as time goes