Power Tools: 30+ add-ons for Google Sheets

Power Tools is a collection of 30+ add-ons for Google Sheets. They help speed up most of your daily tasks, both complex and simple, enhancing your performance and saving your time. Get help with cleaning up and organizing data in your Google Sheets. Pick the group below to learn the tools it has to offer.

• Start Power Tools
• Choose the action
  • Quick features of the Smart Toolbar
    • Find and replace data
    • Sum and count by color
  • Dedupe & Compare
  • Merge & Combine
  • Split
  • Process
  • Text tools
  • Clear
  • Randomize
  • Formulas
  • Convert

Start Power Tools

Start the add-on from Add-ons > Power Tools > Start or pick the tool group you need right from the menu:

Tip. You can make Power Tools open its sidebar in each spreadsheet automatically by pinning the button at its very bottom:

Please bear in mind that this doesn't open any specific add-on. It simply opens Power Tools so you could proceed with the desired add-on right away.

Choose the action

1. Smart Toolbar is a set of one-click tools for the most common tasks:
   • Advanced Find and Replace to search, substitute, or export values, formulas, notes, hyperlinks, and errors in any selected sheets.
   • Freeze to lock top rows and left columns in your tables.
   • Function by Color to sum, count, and calculate in other ways different cells based on their colors.
   • Calculate to quickly insert formulas with the most popular functions for multiple data ranges.
   • Change Case to switch between different capitalizations of the text.
   • Remove to get rid of all blank and/or unused rows and columns on the sheet.
   • Unpivot Table to transform your cross-tab table and get columns as row values instead.
   • Unmerge to divide combined cells into multiple separate cells.
   • Flip to exchange records between columns, rows, or cells.

   

2. Dedupe & Compare group contains add-ons that scan your data for duplicates, uniques, and their 1st occurrences. It's up to you to decide whether to color, remove, copy, or move what's been found. Use 5 add-ons to:
   • Find and remove duplicate rows in one spreadsheet.
   • Compare two sheets or columns.
   • Find and remove duplicate cells in one spreadsheet.
   • Combine duplicate rows and merge all related data together.
   • Quickly find and remove duplicate rows within just one step.

   

3. Merge & Combine group is equipped with 5 utilities to bring data together:
   • Merge Values transfers values within rows, columns, or a range of cells and separates them with a delimiter of your choice.
   • Merge Sheets matches data in common columns of two spreadsheets and updates one table with the corresponding records from another.
   • Combine Duplicate Rows searches for duplicate entries in the columns you select, merges corresponding uniques and calculates subtotals.
   • Combine Sheets joins data from multiple sheets into one sheet preserving column headers.
   • Consolidate Sheets also joins data from multiple sheets into one but also calculates all numbers using the most common aggregate functions.

   

4. Split data from one cell into multiple cells by delimiters, strings, or position. Split names to get each name part separately.

   

5. Process your data using 3 powerful one-step add-ons:
   • Multiple VLOOKUP Matches looks up values in all directions based on multiple criteria and returns all matching data as a formula or as values.
   • Function by Color calculates cells of the same color using 13 formulas.
   • Advanced Find and Replace searches and substitutes in values, formulas, notes, hyperlinks, and errors.

   

6. With the Text group you can alter text in different ways:
   • Add text to cells by position.
   • Change case and replace special characters; polish all text by removing extra spaces, adding lost spaces after punctuation marks, and turning text into Sentence case — all in one click and with the help of the Modify tool.
   • Use the options from the Remove group to get rid of unwanted characters and their substrings, excess spaces and delimiters.
   • Split cells by different chars or positions.
   • Divide full names to its name units.

   

7. The Clear tool will remove different types of values from your spreadsheet, from dates and notes, to formatting and hyperlinks. It also removes blank or unused rows and columns.
8. Randomize features 2 helpful add-ons:
   • Random Generator to generate strong passwords or strings by mask or character sets, create lists of random dates and numbers, or use your own lists of values to mix up.
   • Shuffle to rearrange records in rows or columns in no particular order.

   

9. Tweak multiple formulas in your spreadsheet in a blink of an eye: convert relative cell references to absolute ones or even their values. Alter all selected formulas according to the pattern you set or auto apply 12 most common functions to all selected columns.
10. Last but not least, you will convert text to numbers or dates, change the number sign, and export the data to JSON or XML formats.