Values, types, and formatting in Google Sheets

This screencast introduces the basic kinds of data that are available in Google Sheets (& most other spreadsheet systems): Strings, numbers, and booleans. It also goes over the default alignments (left, center, right) for each of these types, and how to override those alignments, and talks about the many ways to format numbers and date/time information. 0:00 Introduction & basic types 2:55 Using the TYPE() function to see what types Google thinks things are 5:12 Default alignments and overriding those defaults 8:02 Formatting numbers 16:46 Formatting dates, times, and durations