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This guide shows you how to display a Google Sheets spreadsheet on your digital signage screens.
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Search for the Google Slides app

Log in to your Pickcel account. Go to Apps and search for Google Slides, then click the app card to open its setup form.
Search for the Google Slides app in the App Store
Pickcel uses one app, labeled Google Slides, to embed Google Slides, Sheets, and Docs alike, since all three publish to the web the same way. Search for Google Slides even though you’re embedding a spreadsheet.
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Publish your Google Sheet to the web

The app needs a published, embeddable link, not just a shareable link. Open the spreadsheet you want to display, then go to File → Share → Publish to web.
Google Sheets File menu with Share and Publish to web highlighted
On the Embed tab, choose what to publish: the entire document, or a single sheet from the dropdown (for example just “Traffic Dashboard”).
Publish to the web dialog on the Embed tab with the entire document or sheet selector
Click Publish, then confirm.
Confirm publishing the document dialog
Copy the URL from inside the <iframe src="..."> code that appears.
Published embed code with the iframe src URL highlighted for copying
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Paste the embed URL and create the app

Back in Pickcel, enter a Name for the app.
Google Slides App form with the name field filled in and the Embed URL field empty
Paste the copied URL into Embed URL.
Google Slides App form with the Google Sheets embed URL pasted into the Embed URL field
Click Create App.
Click Create App
Your Google Sheets app is now ready to use.

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Displaying a multi-tab spreadsheet

A Google Sheets document with multiple tabs: Traffic Dashboard, RawData, and Instructions
If your spreadsheet has multiple tabs and you need to show more than one, you have two options:
  • Publish the entire document. The embed stays interactive, so anyone standing at the screen can click between tabs with a mouse. Only choose this if the screen has a mouse or touch input.
  • Publish just the tab you need. Choose that specific sheet instead of “Entire document” in the Embed dialog. This publishes only that one tab, non-interactive, which is the right choice for unattended screens.
To cycle through several tabs automatically without any interaction, publish each tab separately and create a separate Google Sheets app instance for each embed link. Add all the instances to one composition so they rotate through automatically.

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What’s Next?

The app is saved to your Media library under the name you gave it.
Google Sheets app in the Media library
Click its thumbnail to preview it.
Preview of the Google Sheets app showing the published spreadsheet
Add it to a composition, then schedule and publish it to your screens like any other content.