First up, when you're pasting data from one spreadsheet to another, the process will be 50% faster. In addition, setting filters, which only show data from a certain range, is getting 50% faster.

Alternative software like Google Sheets has similar ... data by category -- for example, filter the data in a column by month ...

And even though free usually means you can't do as much, Google Sheets does still allow you to add drop-down lists to your spreadsheets. Here's how to do it. After that, you should see a down ...