Google Sheets Frequently Asked Questions

This page is dedicated to questions regarding Google Sheets. The questions appearing here may in reality not be so frequently asked or posed even once. However, if they are questions we think should be asked frequently, we'll ask and answer them ourselves.

Questions About Maintaining Google Sheets

QUESTION

When I encounter an error in the shared MT-WY Families spreadsheet is is possible for me to make edits to it?

ANSWER 1

No.
Why not?
Because.
Because why?
Because we said so.
You sound like my parents!
You sound like our child.

ANSWER 2

OK, actually your account hasn't been given privileges to edit the MT-WY Families shared spreadsheet for two reasons.

1. For now we expect all edits be done by just a couple of people in order to maintain the integrity of the data. Edits are only done to the MT-WY Database spreadsheet. Carolyn is the primary editor.
2. The shared MT-WY Families spreadsheet is not editable in any case. It is generated by programs from the MT-WY Database spreadsheet and is refreshed after each editing session on the MT-WY Database system. Any changes someone would make to the shared MT-WY Families spreadsheet would be overwritten at that point.

QUESTION

I was using the shared MT-WY Families spreadsheet when suddenly the page went blank. I didn't try to change anything, I promise! Did I annihilate the entire system?

Did you notice any smoke seeping out of your keyboard?. If not, you are probably OK. Most likely you happened to be using the MT-WY Families spreadsheet when one of the editors finished modifying the MT-WY Database and triggered an update to the MT-WY Families spreadsheet which clears the shared sheets and rewrites them. If you wait long enough when that happens you will see the sheet being refilled.