How to Use spreadsheet in a Sentence

spreadsheet

noun
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  • Use a shared spreadsheet to track all of your progress.
    — Dandan Zhu, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Freezing the top row of your spreadsheet is a good place to start.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2023
  • That’s when one player’s name seemed to jump off the page on my spreadsheet.
    — Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Or add rows to a spreadsheet, then send them as a Slack message.
    — Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 24 Mar. 2023
  • By the end of the week, a group of Twitter accounts published a spreadsheet of names.
    — Rashah McChesney, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Cruz stepped out of the pickup to look at the box that had been a line at the top of a spreadsheet and the object of so much agita.
    — John Francis Peters, ProPublica, 16 June 2022
  • Attached was a spreadsheet of items for sale: LED grow lights for $500 apiece.
    — Gene Johnson, oregonlive, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The spreadsheet can handle all kinds of questions to guide your growth and plan against the downside.
    — Barry McCarthy, Forbes, 17 May 2022
  • Set up a spreadsheet to record the progress toward debt freedom.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Well, these are spreadsheet assumptions, and, of course, the real world is a lot messier.
    — Glenn Ruffenach, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2022
  • The spreadsheet did not contain the state’s reasons for denying the two requests.
    — Jeff Barker, Baltimore Sun, 9 June 2023
  • Who can put their heart into a spreadsheet or sales call right now?
    — Lila MacLellan, Quartz, 20 Sep. 2021
  • But no sport can be reduced to numbers in a spreadsheet.
    — Ben Cohen, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2022
  • The spreadsheet had more than 250 names on it by midday Wednesday.
    — Omar Abdel-Baqui, WSJ, 9 Feb. 2022
  • He’s been recording his mood ranking in a spreadsheet for all that time.
    — Chloe Taylor, Fortune, 25 Sep. 2023
  • That spreadsheet pointed Smith elsewhere in the Big Ten.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Almost all charts and graphs are confusing, and the sight of a spreadsheet on screen makes people crazy.
    — John Lowe, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
  • But that data needs to be composable; it shouldn’t be stuck in PDFs and spreadsheets.
    — Gary Iles, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The Power Point presentation was good enough and so was the spreadsheet.
    — Paula Marantz Cohen, WSJ, 16 Sep. 2022
  • All the information from open sources ends up on a huge spreadsheet.
    — Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2022
  • Hey, ever catch that mate who’s daydreaming of the golf course more than spreadsheets?
    — Cristian Esteban, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Keeping track of all this data might be difficult on your own—even with the help of a spreadsheet.
    — Anna-Louise Jackson, wsj.com, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The police had designed the Excel file to fetch that image from their own server when the spreadsheet was opened.
    — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Near the end of the year, the El Faro newsroom gathered to review a spreadsheet with reporters’ names and the dates their phones were infected.
    — Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The drama and emotion and panic and love were reduced to data on a spreadsheet.
    — Liz Meriwether, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Instead, poll workers will record their time worked on a spreadsheet.
    — Dallas News, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Then plug those items into a spreadsheet and start to assign guesstimate costs to each.
    — Laura Fenton, House Beautiful, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The search also unfolded online, where many turned to a spreadsheet on Google Drive to search for loved ones.
    — Alexandra E. Petri, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2023
  • And then, fueled by corny ambition and creative use of Excel spreadsheets, the Cooley family of Dixon went big.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 19 Oct. 2024
  • In Ingham County, two deputies from the evidence room printed out Morrow’s spreadsheet on a piece of poster-sized paper and started making notes in the margins.
    — Gina Barton, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2024

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