Make a New Spreadsheet

Make spreadsheets for your visualizations in Google Sheets. 

1. Go to docs.google.com/spreadsheets/

   • A list of Google accounts will appear

2. Log in to your account
   • Make sure you let Visuals access this account with authorize Google Drive access

   • Your Google Sheets page will open

3. Click the Blank spreadsheet icon beneath "Start a new spreadsheet"

   • A new spreadsheet will open

4. Title your sheet
5. Enter your data
   • The format of your spreadsheet will depend on the visualization you want to make 
   • Learn about specific formatting at the Visualization Index
   • Learn how to set data types
6. Set headers for rows if necessary
   • These spreadsheet headers will determine labels on the visualization
   • Learn how to set data labels 
7. When you are finished, click Share

   • Sharing settings will open in a dialog box

8. Click Advanced

   • Advanced sharing settings will open

9. Click Change next to "Private - Only you can access" 

   • "Link sharing" will open

10. Select "On - Anyone with the Link" or "On - Public to the Web" 
11. Click Save
12. Click Done 

    • Your spreadsheet is ready for Visuals