Just click the Free button that appears when you hover over an add-on, then accept the permissions. That'll open the Sheets Add-ons store, where you can search through over 250 add-ons or sort them by category. To get started with Google Sheets Add-ons, just open a new or existing spreadsheet in your browser, select the Add-ons menu in the top right, and click Get Add-ons. Today,there are hundreds of add-ons for each of the Google Docs apps, and it only takes a couple clicks to install them. But over time, Google relentlessly added features to make up the difference, and in added Add-ons to each of their apps in 2014. Google Sheets-and the rest of the Google Docs suite-were originally known as simpler, less powerful alternatives to Microsoft Office. You come for the great browser or photo editing tools, but stay for the countless extensions that help you get things done more easily. Google Chrome, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Word, Sublime Text, and more are great programs on their own, but extendability is what makes them platforms. Add-ons, extensions, plugins: they're what make the most popular software great.
