TL;DR: If you miss your Excel productivity and want to be faster, more accurate, and produce more digestible models in Google Sheets, try SheetWhiz for free. Over 17,000 professionals at companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, DoorDash, and Robinhood have used SheetWhiz over 8 million times to boost their productivity in Google Sheets.

Sometimes Google Sheets just doesn’t cut it.

After working for years in private equity and learning Excel like the back of my hand, the transition to startup finance and ops, where I had to use Google Sheets (on a MacBook to boot!), was incredibly painful. SheetWhiz fixes this so you don’t have to go through the pain I went through.

Since launching SheetWhiz, it’s become the go-to spreadsheet tool for finance teams working in Google Sheets. It’s what finance teams at top tech companies use to move faster and with greater accuracy.

Try the SheetWhiz Chrome extension today with a 21-day free trial and a free forever plan. Visit www.sheetwhiz.com and click “Get Chrome Extension” to install the tool.

The Problem

3 billion people use Google Workspace each month and hundreds of millions use Google Sheets in their everyday work. Finance teams are increasingly moving work into Google Sheets because it comes free with Google Workspace, and it’s easier to aggregate data and collaborate in Sheets than in Excel.

The problem? Google Sheets lacks proper tooling for finance teams to streamline their work. As this move to Sheets picks up speed, finance teams are often forced to download files into Excel to complete the work, then re-upload them back into Drive to share once complete.

It also doesn’t help that Excel, over the last 40+ years, has built massive market share in finance with a community of finance educators and tooling, while Google Sheets has focused more on the data analyst and lacks many education touch points that would drive adoption by finance teams. It’s especially frustrating for finance teams, many of whom have Excel training, to lose access to the features and functionality they’re used to.

Missing features include:

• A robust way to trace precedent and dependent cells
• An easy What-If suite with tools like Goal Seek and Data Tables
• Fast formatting tools and shortcuts
• Exporting into other systems while maintaining formatting

Without these workflows, teams move slower, data quality checks take longer, and spreadsheet output hygiene suffers, with key stakeholders having to work harder to digest takeaways.

Before SheetWhiz, I worked in tech private equity at Silver Lake and later in finance and operations roles. Excel plus plugins were core to how I worked. Moving into Google Sheets meant losing speed, visibility, and accuracy. I searched for a fix and couldn’t find anything close. As my cofounder Peter observed my constant complaining, we decided to build the tool I wanted and use every single day.

Our Solution

Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3IivzfLeT4

SheetWhiz brings Excel’s most important auditing, scenario analysis, and formatting tools directly into Google Sheets, all triggered by shortcuts you can customize.

Current capabilities include:

Audit and accuracy

• Trace Precedents
• Trace Dependents
• Auto-Color Hardcodes and Links to Other Tabs

Driver and sensitivity tools

• Goal Seek
• What-If Data Tables

Advanced formatting

• Number Cycle
• Font Cycle
• Fill Color Cycling
• Indentation Cycle (yes, you can indent in Sheets!)

Excel formatting shortcuts

• Paste Special (Alt + E + S)
• Insert/Delete Columns and Rows (Ctrl + Shift + Plus/Minus)
• Border shortcuts
• Add/Remove Gridlines (Alt + E + V + G)
• Set or Auto-Fit Column Width and Rows Height
• Add/Remove Filters (Ctrl + Shift + L) and Open Filter Dropdown (Alt + Down Arrow)
• Alignment shortcuts
• Merge shortcuts
• Freeze/Unfreeze shortcuts

PowerPoint formatting shortcuts

• Alignment shortcuts
• Text alignment shortcuts
• Distribute shortcuts
• Grouping shortcuts

Reporting

• Export selections as clean images for pasting into other programs like Google Slides and Slack

What finance teams use SheetWhiz for:

• Understand and debug models in seconds
• Build sensitivities
• Maintain cleaner spreadsheets faster
• Avoid formula breakage
• Export reporting visuals for leadership decks

If you work in Google Sheets, we would love for you to try SheetWhiz and share feedback on what to build next.

Try it free for 21 days at www.sheetwhiz.com (click “Get Chrome Extension)

Dimely and SheetWhiz: Fixing Spreadsheet for Finance Teams

SheetWhiz emerged alongside Dimely, our AI connected spreadsheet, as part of the same mission: making the spreadsheet experience better for finance teams. Dimely focuses on automating your billing spreadsheet work, while SheetWhiz focuses on improving the daily tooling inside Google Sheets itself. Please reach out if interested in learning more about SheetWhiz or Dimely.