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Web Applications Q&A works better for practical, detailed questions from people that likes to learn and solve problems by themselves about using web applications that might. It doesn't matter if you are a non-tech savvy person or a power user, questions on this site should show what ques asker tried, what they found and why it didn't meet their needs. For brevity, sometimes this is referred as "show research efforts" and failing on this may lead that a question be downvoted or closed as "needs details or clarity".

Web Applications doesn't work for seed questions (ice breakers / conversation starter like questions), help desk like questions that require a lot of back and forth among of other types of questions that are commonly found in other websites like Reddit, Quora, Google Products Communities, among others.

Search throgouhly this site and Googl Sheets help, show what you tried, share what you found and why it didn't meet your needs. Questions about formulas, charts, pivot tables should include sample data directly into the question body. See this answer for tips about how to include the data.

Before asking a question in Web Applications about Google Sheets you should already have spent time learning the Google Sheets basics even if you are a seasoned Excel user or a Stack Exchange power user.

Questions in Web Applications should be focused in using Google Sheets in the Web (using a web browser like Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, etc.).

This wording is commonly used in blantanly basic questions. If you haven't spend time learning the basics of Google Sheets, do that before asking a question in Web Applications.

This wording also is commonly used in blantanly basic questions. If you haven't spend time learning the basics of Google Sheets, do that before asking a question in Web Applications.

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The Q&A model works better for practical, detailed questions from people that likes to learn and solve problems by themselves about using web applications. It doesn't matter if you are a non-tech savvy person or a power user, questions on this site should be on topic and meet the quality standards.

The above means that not all posts might be allowed to get answers, but it's allowed to fix them to make them a good fit for this site. Questions that can't be answered by the community, i.e., questions were a definitive answer might only be provided by webapp developer / vendor agent aren't allowed.

It's expected that the asker show what they have tried, what they found,i.e. similar questions from this site, articles from the Google Sheets help center, and why them didn't meet their needs. For brevity, sometimes this is referred as "show research efforts" and failing on this may lead that a question be downvoted or closed as "needs details or clarity".

The main site doesn't work for seed questions (ice breakers / conversation starter like questions), help desk like questions that require a lot of back and forth among of other types of questions that are commonly found in other websites like Reddit, Quora, Google Products Communities, among others.

Search throgouhly this site and Google Sheets help, show what you tried, share what you found and why it didn't meet your needs. Questions about formulas, charts, pivot tables should include sample data directly into the question body. See this answer for tips about how to include the data.

Before asking a question in main site about Google Sheets you should already have spent time learning the Google Sheets basics even if you are a seasoned Excel user or a Stack Exchange power user.

Questions in main site should be focused in using Google Sheets in the Web (using a web browser like Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, etc.).

This wording is commonly used in blantanly basic questions. If you haven't spend time learning the basics of Google Sheets, do that before asking a question in the main site.

This wording also is commonly used in blantanly basic questions. If you haven't spend time learning the basics of Google Sheets, do that before asking a question in the main site.

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Search throgouhly this site and Googl Sheets help, show what you tried, share what you found and why it didn't meet your needs. Questions about formulas, charts, pivot tables should include sample data directly into the question body. See this answer for tips about how to include the data.

It's very common that people include links to spreadsheet. That might be helpful but questions should be self contained. You should describe the relevant parts of your spreadsheet directly into the question body. This includes but is not limited to the spreadsheet settings like the Country as it affects the separator used in formulas, numbers among other things.

It's very common that people include links to spreadsheets. That might be helpful but questions should be self contained. Spreadsheets might be edited, deleted or unshared making difficult or even impossible to understand what was asked.

Question should stay clear even after they were answered. Archiving a Google Sheets spreasheet using the Wayback Machine or similar tools doesn't warrant that the archived spreasheet will work as it was intended the day that the question was asked as several features depend on Google server responses.

You should describe the relevant parts of your spreadsheet directly into the question body. This includes but is not limited to the spreadsheet settings like the Country as it affects the separator used in formulas, numbers among other things.

If besides describing the spreadsheet in the question body you want to add a like to a demo spreadsheet to make others easier to create a solution and demostrate that it works it's fine but be aware that your the display name of your Google account displayed in Google Drive and another places and that your email address could be found.

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