If you are using Google Sheets to create your spreadsheets, you are probably already using the recently-released new version of Sheets.

But what about your existing spreadsheets? How do you convert a spreadsheet created in the original version to the new format?

While Google doesn’t provide a simple one-click conversion tool yet, there is a quick workaround…

• Open the a spreadsheet created in the original version;
• Select ‘Download as’ from the File tab;;
• Choose the Microsoft Excel filetype (doesn’t matter if you don’t have Excel installed);
• Locate the downloaded file and upload it back into Google Drive;
• Make sure the Excel file is converting to the Google Sheets format;
• If necessary, re-share with all your collaborators from the original file.

Here is a video overview of the process from Google Gooru…