Basics

Basics

Learn the fundamentals to structure your work.

Sign in or sign out of Smartsheet

Signing in and out of Smartsheet: direct, SSO, third-parties, and enterprise methods.  

Get Started with Smartsheet

Starting your Smartsheet journey: Learning Center, progress tracking, and utilizing templates

Access and organize your work

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Standardize and customize your work with Smartsheet templates

Using and creating Smartsheet templates for standardization and customization

System requirements and guidelines for using Smartsheet

Understanding Smartsheet's system requirements: browser compatibility, file size limits, and advanced features

Create a hyperlink to a sheet, report, or website

Creating, editing, and removing hyperlinks in Smartsheet

Filter basics

You must be the sheet Editor or higher to name and save a filter. You must be the sheet Owner or Admin to share a filter....

Create a filter to show or hide data

Create, use, and manage filters in Smartsheet

Create Smartsheet items

Smartsheet items include: Sheets: The foundation of your work in Smartsheet....

Access the Smartsheet trial plan

If you're an unpaid user on your company's plan, you have limited access to Smartsheet's full capabilities....

Manage conditional formatting rules

Managing conditional formatting rules in Smartsheet: editing, cloning, enabling, disabling, and rearranging

Copy and paste cells, rows, formulas, or hierarchy

Copying and pasting in Smartsheet: working with cells, rows, formulas, and hierarchies

Personalize your Home experience

Home recommends sheets, reports, dashboards, workspaces, WorkApps based on your Smartsheet activity....

Find your way around Smartsheet

Quickly find your way around Smartsheet with these navigation tips. 

View your assigned tasks

View your assigned tasks by creating filters or reports.

Sheets and rows

Create or rename a sheet or other Smartsheet item

In Smartsheet, most solutions start with a sheet: it's the primary place where information is stored.

Hierarchy: Indent or outdent rows

You can create a hierarchy on your sheet by indenting rows. When you indent a row, it becomes a child of the row above it (the parent row)....

Add, edit, or clear cell content

Editing cell and sheet content is easier than even with Smartsheet. 

Move rows, columns, or cells

Before you move or copy a row to another sheet, make sure the destination sheet includes identical column names and types....

Copy a sheet with save as new

When you copy a sheet with save as new, columns and conditional formatting rules from the original sheet will always be saved to the new

Delete Smartsheet items

Select File > Delete. Browse to the item you want to remove. Right-click the item, then select Delete....

Import files to create new sheets

Understanding sheets or reports imports to Smartsheet

Export a sheet or report

Understanding sheets or reports exports from Smartsheet

Save and refresh sheet data

It's a good best practice to save your changes frequently to keep from losing work.

Keep sheets and other items organized in a folder

Folders allow you to organize Smartsheet items (sheets, reports, dashboards, and more).

Work with the copy rows action

To create a new copy row value workflow: Go to Automation > Create workflow from template......

Find and replace values within a sheet

Use Find and Replace to search for specific values in a sheet and replace those values one at a time or all at once.

Insert or delete rows or tasks

Users can insert or delete single or multiple rows to organize their data.

Auto-number rows

Use an auto-number system column to generate an automatically incremented counter for each row that contains data.

Create a series of numbers or dates with drag-fill

You can quickly fill a range of cells with a series of numbers, dates, or a text string ending in numbers, that’s either sequential or an

Sort rows to organize your data

To organize your data in ascending or descending order, use the Sort Row command.

Copy rows to another sheet

Avoid manually duplicating your work by copying rows from one sheet to another.

Cell links: Consolidate or maintain data consistency

You can only link cells that contain data, or previously contained data, to a destination sheet....

View your assigned tasks

Filters can show you all tasks assigned to you or someone else on a single sheet, and reports can show you tasks across multiple sheets. 

Include a picture or other image in your sheet

You can insert images directly into cells in your sheets.

Assign people to a task

In Smartsheet, you can use the Contact List column type to assign tasks to team members.

Work Insights: Use a burndown chart to track team effort

A burndown chart allows teams to see their effort over time.

Use Work Insights to visualize your data

Work Insights automatically analyzes and visualizes your sheet's current and historical data.

Columns

Insert, delete, or rename columns

Column management: Insert, delete, or rename columns

Keep consistency in data with dropdown columns

Use the dropdown list columns to standardize the collection of key information: Allow your collaborators to select one or more values that apply to th...

Lock or unlock columns and rows

Manage your data integrity by locking and unlocking columns and rows

Control data entry in a column

Add restrictions to your data entries in columns.  

Change column details

Adjusting column attributes for enhanced data management

Column types

Configurable and Default columns, learn about Column type references

Available symbols for the symbols column

You cannot add your own custom symbols to the column. You can use formulas in a Symbols column. To do this, use the text values of the symbols....

Work with the primary column: Overview and best practices

Understanding and optimizing the mandatory primary column in your Smartsheet grid

Hide or Unhide Columns

Managing your column views

Freeze or Unfreeze a Column

Column management: Freeze or Unfreeze columns

Add a latest comment column

Column management: adding a Latest comment column

Use column formulas to apply calculations to all rows in a sheet

Implementing calculations across your sheet with column formulas

Attachments

Attach files to a sheet or report

You can attach almost any file from your computer to a sheet, row, or comment.

View and download attachments

Sheet Owners, Admins, and Editors can add, version, or delete attachments. Anyone with access to the sheet can view and download attachments....

Attach a file or link from an online resource

Relate files stored in another online resource (Google Drive or OneDrive) to items that you're tracking in Smartsheet with the At

Keep attachments current

Owners, Admins, and Editors on a sheet can add, version, or delete attachments. Anyone with access to the sheet can view and download attachments....

Delete an attachment from a sheet or report

When you delete a file from a sheet or report, its removal is permanent — the action cannot be undone....

Delete a comment attachment

You can remove a file attached to a comment by deleting it from the comment itself or the comment altogether. 

Access and download files attached to a Workspace

Owners, Admins, and Editors of a workspace can add, version, or delete attachments....

Views

Timeline, board, grid, Gantt, card, and calendar views

Views in Smartsheet allow you to see and work with your data in different ways.

Track date-based work with timeline view

With timeline view, you can easily see what’s happening now and what’s coming next, helping your team and stakeholders stay focused and aligned on com...

Collaborate in real time with board view

Board view has an all-new, modern look and feel and includes key new functionality to make working on a board faster, easier, and more collaborative t...

Board view and sharing permissions

For details about specific actions you can take in board view, see the following table....

Use card view to visualize your project

With card view, you can organize tasks, work items, or ideas into actionable groups.

Card View: Create, edit, and share cards

In Card View, cards make up the work items or tasks in your project.

Act on work in motion with mobile Card View

To use Card View, you must have a Dropdown, Symbol, or Contact List column on your sheet....

Card view and sharing permissions

What you can do in the card view depends on your sharing permission level in the sheet....

Work with Calendar View

The Calendar View is a reflection of the dates contained in a sheet or report.

Publish a Smartsheet Calendar to iCal

To view your Smartsheet tasks in a non-Smartsheet calendar, you can publish a sheet from Calendar View and subscribe to it from any calen

Formatting

Brand Smartsheet with your colors and logo

Maintain your organization's brand recognition by applying custom colors and uploading your logo to Smartsheet.

Create a quality logo to brand your Smartsheet items

In the Admin Center, System Admins can set the default color settings and logo branding for everyone in the plan....

Format your data

Formatting data in Smartsheet allows you to visually enhance your information, making it easier to interpret and analyze.

Apply automatic formatting with conditional formatting rules

Use conditional formatting to change the appearance of rows or cells based on the values they contain.

Automatic Format and Formula Autofill

Automatic formatting and formula autofill are related features that persist patterns of formatting or formulas when you add content to a

Change the color of task bars

The sheet owner and shared collaborators with Editor or Admin access to a sheet can manually change the color the task bar....

Apply standardized date formats in your sheet

You can apply a date format which will be interpreted in the same manner for everyone on your team, regardless of their Regional Preferen

Default date and number formats with Regional Preferences

Using Regional Preferences, you can specify the dates and number formats for your account....

Printing

Print a sheet or report from Smartsheet

If you want, you can print only selected rows from a sheet or report....

Set options to print a PDF

If there is a filter applied, printing the entire sheet prints the filtered view. Turn all filters off then apply the unnamed filter....

Print selected rows from a sheet or report

Smartsheet prints to a PDF by default. If you don’t want a PDF, you can export your data instead. Learn how to export a sheet or report....

Printing tips and troubleshooting

How you print from Smartsheet will depend on what you want to print. Print from card viewYou can print the contents of a single card or row....

Print a dashboard

You can print a dashboard for handouts or for a read-only PDF to share.