Trace dependents is a key part of your spreadsheet auditing toolkit. Practicing good spreadsheet hygiene and trying to figure out if you can delete some cells? Trace dependents. Your teammate’s model has a random cell and you don’t know what it does? Trace dependents. Knowing how cells tie together is critical to building efficient, well-structured models and analyses.  In this article, I’ll discuss how you can run trace dependents in Google Sheets. There are two ways to do i