Google Workspace could have simply solved hours of cumulative frustration and annoyance with a brand new addition to its spreadsheet software program that makes use of the pliability of your mouse.

The corporate has revealed a brand new characteristic which is able to permit customers to autofill by dragging or double clicking a range deal with utilizing a mouse within the Google Sheets Android app.

The brand new characteristic is obtainable to customers on Fast Launch domains now, with different customers set to see it quickly – nevertheless it looks like a real game-changer from Google that could possibly be an enormous productiveness enhance.

Google Sheets mouse autofill

It sounds so easy that we will not fairly work out why this hasn’t at all times been a factor – and in a gif on its Google Workspace updates weblog (opens in new tab), the corporate exhibits that the brand new instrument actually is that straightforward to make use of – you merely click on on the highlighted discipline, then maintain and drag over the containers you’d prefer to develop to – and voila.

Google says that the launch comes shortly after the roll out of full mouse help for Google Sheets on Android, and is the newest in a sequence of enhancements for customers to take pleasure in.

Not too long ago, the spreadsheet software program, a part of the Google Workspace workplace suite, mentioned it might start providing named features, permitting customers to create high-performance customized features that help built-in Sheets formulation constructs.

Customers will even be capable to import named features from present Sheets recordsdata, permitting them to make use of features created in a single Sheets file in a special Sheets file, boosting reusability throughout spreadsheets. 

The corporate additionally lately launched “clever corrections” for formulation in Google Sheets, context-aware fixes that it says enable you to enhance and troubleshoot many alternative sorts of formulation.

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