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New Sheets

Bringing speed, flexibility, and modern Excel-like functionality to your Fieldguide Sheets

Overview

New Sheets are purpose-built for speed, flexibility, and modern Excel-like functionality. This brings additional features to your sheets, including:

  • Drag-to-fill

  • Bulk copy-paste

  • Auto-row heights

  • Custom row heights

  • Faster load times

  • And more!

Enable New Sheets

Enable or disable New Sheets by using the toggle at the top-right of your sheet.

Set sheets preference

Set a preference for your default sheets experience in your user settings. Instead of choosing each time, this setting will enable or disable new sheets automatically when opening sheets.

Add rows

Insert one or more rows above or below the current row from the settings menu:

Move rows

To move a row:

  1. Hover over the handle on a row's left margin until your cursor becomes a 4-way arrow .

  2. Drag and drop the row to move it to a new location.

Keyboard shortcuts

In New Sheets, you can use keyboard shortcuts to navigate, select cells, and more. New Sheets has some new keyboard shortcuts in addition to the ones previously available in Standard Sheets.

Action

Keyboard shortcut (New Sheets)

Move one cell down, up, left, or right

Windows: Arrow key

Mac: Arrow key

Extend the selection of cells by one cell

Windows: Shift + Arrow key

Mac: Shift + Arrow key

Extend the selection of cells to the end of this column or row

Windows: Ctrl + Shift + Arrow key

Mac: Cmd + Shift + Arrow key

Clear the selected cells

Windows: Backspace

Mac: Delete

Drag-to-fill

Drag a cell value down to populate the cells underneath it with the same value.

  1. Click a cell and hover your cursor over the bottom-right corner until you see a ➕ icon.

  2. Click and hold while dragging your cursor down to the row you want to fill up to.

Bulk copy-paste

Copy multiple cells to your clipboard and paste them into other cells.

  1. Click a cell and hold while dragging your cursor to select a group of cells. Press Ctrl + C to copy to your clipboard.

  2. Click a blank cell to paste data into. Press Ctrl + V to paste.

Use Ctrl + Z to undo a bulk paste.

Set row height

Rows are sized automatically by default. To set a custom row height:

  1. Hover your cursor over the bottom of a row's left margin until you see an arrow icon .

  2. Click and hold while dragging your cursor to the desired height.

To set a row back to the default height:

  1. Hover your cursor over the bottom of a row's left margin until you see an arrow icon .

  2. Double-click.

Pin columns

Pin (AKA freeze), show/hide, reorder, and remove columns all in one central place.

To pin a column:

  1. Right-click on the column header and click Pin column. If a column is already pinned, you can unpin it here.

  2. Use the Manage Columns menu to drag to pin or unpin multiple columns at once.

Add a column aggregation

Add an aggregation to a column to calculate a sum, count, average, or another calculation.

To add an aggregation:

  1. Open the 3-dots menu on the column header and click Edit Column.

  2. Turn on the Aggregate totals toggle and select an aggregation type from the dropdown menu.

The aggregation will be displayed at the bottom of each section header.

Sample sheets

New Sheets now supports sample sheets. See below for more information on how to use sampling feature in New Sheets.

  • Rename or delete a sample by clicking on the sample name.

  • Replace a sample by clicking the button, where you can choose to manually select or randomly reselect a sample.

  • Link a request by clicking the button.

Cell and row highlights

You can use highlights to color a row or cell on your sheet to convey status or mark an area to return to.

Add a highlight

Highlight a Cell: Right-click on a cell and choose a color. Bulk selection is also supported via right-click:

Highlight a Row: Use the three-dot menu in the row action menu:

Remove a highlight

Highlighted cells and rows can be removed by selecting the white fill color. This can be done individually or via bulk selection.

Column filters

New Sheets includes the ability to filter columns on multiple values. You can:

  • Apply Excel-like multi-attribute filters with AND/OR logic.

  • Use familiar text filters from our standard sheets experience (contains, not contains, etc.).

  • Filter by list values for even more flexibility.

  • Use the new Filter Overview button to view all active filters across the sheet, see saved and unsaved filters, clear filters in one place, and filter by unique rows.

Shared columns

When a sheet is sharing columns to another sheet, you can see which other row(s) are linked to a row by opening the linked rows menu next to the row key.

Supported features

Some features aren’t yet available in New Sheets. Toggle off New Sheets to access these features in Standard Sheets mode.

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