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Excellent multiple use program
What do you like best about the product?
I love that there are so many uses and that multiple people can contribute to each Smartsheet. We use it as ongoing meeting agendas, task lists, and more. I personally like it better than any other programs due to the amount of different uses
What do you dislike about the product?
There is a bit of a learning curve with Smartsheet. There are so many capabilities, however, I still feel like I am not utilizing it to it's full potential. It would be great if it were a bit more intuitive.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Smartsheet is making it easier for our team to collaborate and work through projects together. It keeps us organized and holds everyone accountable since the task list is visible for everyone to see.
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What do you like best about the product?
I love the idea of everything Smartsheets; everything we have been shown has only seemed to make my team's life easier in the event planning world. We have had systems in place for a few years now that resemble Smartsheets, so using it is a no-brainer for added organization and automation.
What do you dislike about the product?
The path to becoming 100% operational in Smartsheets has been challenging because there seems to be a handful of loose ends integrating other platforms. I worry that my team and I will lose the historical data that we have archived in similar excel sheets that are important to event planning and development. Since everything is so new for Smartsheets and we are not fully operational just yet, I am very interested to see if there is a way to view previous year information to help with future planning.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
In theory, SmartSheets can solve a lot of headaches that come with a handful of tedious tasks that our team has on an event-to-event basis. Being able to have these tasks automated then allows our team to have more time to enhance our events.
SmartSheets - Perfect for Excel Users
What do you like best about the product?
Our company was built on Microsoft Excel spreadsheets but lacked the structure to keep us organized. Smartsheet has closed that gap. Communication has left our outlook and is stored next to each item with a review process that creates accountability.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are little formatting things that can be improved upon. A few things are a little complicated to set up that I hoped would be easier. On a few occasions, I would like the info to be exported into excel so the data could be manipulated and pushed back with changes.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
An organized approach to managing data. The ability to review files and sign off with approval has been a big help. Getting all communication out of your email into one stored and organized space has been a game changer. Also the ability to allow outside people from your organization to review and connect on projects.
Good if you know excel
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to create a list, commands and actions are very similar to excel. Easy to download a report of your sheet.
What do you dislike about the product?
Hard to create automations. Hard to search for automations when you don't know what to look for. It would be good to have suggested actions pop up for automations and options to duplicate that automation throughout the sheet. For example, I have a large project sheet that relies on dates and data pulled from another department's sheet, if I do not manually link it each time, nothing happens. For a company like ours that runs 300+ projects a year, that part is extremely tedious.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Allows me to combine all projects on one sheet with alerts for users. Although it is limited, it is a feature google sheets didnt offer.
Long time Smartsheet user
What do you like best about the product?
I like the collaboration features. It is very easy to collaborate with team members and send custom notifications or updates. I like the project timeline feature.
What do you dislike about the product?
When Commenting on a row, I want to be able to use text features in the comment (ex: Bold, underline, alternate colors. I want to be able for formal specific words or text within a cell, without formatting the entire cell.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Solves the problem of communicating across teams. We can update a single sheet in Smartsheet and update any other linked sheets automatically just by linking the cells in the sheet. Helpful for managing project timelines.
Cleaner and quicker than Excel, but with fewer features
What do you like best about the product?
Collaborating with other users has been far easier than with other platforms. As opposed to other spreadsheets, Smartsheets makes it quick and simple to share changes and updates to co-authored documents on a web based platform.
I also value the data I can store in the background (attachments). I can use sheets to document legacy data that would otherwise need to be referenced and stored in different data storage locations (cloud, local, etc.). The ability to recall that data quickly is a huge time saver.
I also value the data I can store in the background (attachments). I can use sheets to document legacy data that would otherwise need to be referenced and stored in different data storage locations (cloud, local, etc.). The ability to recall that data quickly is a huge time saver.
What do you dislike about the product?
I would really like the addition of pages to individual sheets. As the documents grow, they can start to get pretty bloated. Being able to seperate out sections of data to different pages on the same document would help maintain document grownth.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I work in industrial automation. The meta data for different operations and systems is constantly changing and evolving. I use Smartsheets to create live, up to date documents that can quickly be editied with changes made day to day.
Good. Wish it was Great
What do you like best about the product?
I like the fact that its based on a spreadsheet like design and helps in creating spaces where teams can collaborate and assign tasks and actions to. I like the fact that it has multiple integrations that can help in bringing in data.
What do you dislike about the product?
I find it slower in comparision to working with Excel and PowerQuery/ PopwerBI
I think I can work faster with excel with formulas as compared to smartsheet. For me, smartsheet is reserved more if I just want to create a basic tracking log and share it with other people. I still need to figure out the "smart" in smartsheet. For any advanced data handling etc, I have to move over to excel or powerquery.
I think I can work faster with excel with formulas as compared to smartsheet. For me, smartsheet is reserved more if I just want to create a basic tracking log and share it with other people. I still need to figure out the "smart" in smartsheet. For any advanced data handling etc, I have to move over to excel or powerquery.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Allows basic spreadsheets to be created, and shared with teams, create spaces specific to tasks.
Two-year daily user of Smartsheet.
What do you like best about the product?
User Friendly
Automation Capabilities
Dashboard Functions and collaboration of information pulled from multiple sheets and workflows
Smartsheet makes it easy to manage a large project with various moving pieces as well as being able to pull a quick report on the project as a whole or on a specific aspect of the project.
Automation Capabilities
Dashboard Functions and collaboration of information pulled from multiple sheets and workflows
Smartsheet makes it easy to manage a large project with various moving pieces as well as being able to pull a quick report on the project as a whole or on a specific aspect of the project.
What do you dislike about the product?
More features are needed in Forms, changing fonts, and font sizes throughout the form, collecting information from the form such as who submitted instead of just # of submissions, an Outlook calendar feature where if using a form for an appointment/event, it can easily be added to a calendar for the person submitting the form, easier way to change the logo on the form and in general, the graphics side of smartsheet is hard to use.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Smartsheet is solving a major efficiency problem in our department. Since using Smartsheet, we can process grant requests, send approvals to our procurement department, collect data from approved grant applications into a dashboard, and then use all of this information in a monthly report and an annual report. Smartsheet has also helped us establish a database for our volunteer program. We can send out volunteer opportunities and track who is attending and how often the volunteer and pull all of this information into a dashboard and/or report.
Smartsheet is effective but not always intuitive
What do you like best about the product?
I like the ability to design effective, clean surveys and quickly view the results in spreadsheet form. This functionality makes it easy to collaborate with others on survey management.
What do you dislike about the product?
I do not always find that smartsheet is intuitive for survey design. I like to make likert scale style questions, which can be done in smartsheet via multiple choice, but it is not as intuitive for the user. I prefer Survey Monkey's ability to create a 5 or 7 point likert scale question with clear descriptors for each option. Additionally I think the label vs. question title functionality is confusing. I would prefer that the survey by default show the entire question as the column header. Additionally, I like to create forced ranking questions in surveys, which is not possible in Smartsheets.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I primarily use Smartsheet for surveys. The problem I'm trying to solve is how do I solicit feedback from a group and aggregate the results in one location that can be easily shared with other collaborators. Smartsheet is effective for surveys and I like the fact that it seamlessly integrates a form and sheet to easily view survey results.
A great workflow system, but still room for improvement in terms of functionality
What do you like best about the product?
Our unit uses Smartsheet for a number of different purposes ranging from requesting and approving purchases to maintaining our up to date chart of accounts and internal grants. Setting up the workflows is user friendly and creating/managing forms also has worked really well for us.
What do you dislike about the product?
Smartsheet is missing some of the user-friendliness of Excel and there isn't always a way of duplicating formulas between the two. Luckily, people in the forums can be very helpful in terms of troubleshooting how to get similar results.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Smartsheet is expediting the way we request and receive approvals. Instead of having paper going back and forth between buildings and employees, we record proper approvals and maintain record retention for audit purposes. Cell history and the email approval system have both been great.
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