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Useful Tips Tools PDF Version
Useful Tips Tools PDF Version
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I. A selection of useful tips and tools
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Index
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Formatting a worksheet 4-11
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Formatting a worksheet
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Formatting a worksheet
Newly created
worksheet in Excel
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Formatting a worksheet
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Formatting a worksheet
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Formatting a worksheet
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Formatting a worksheet
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Formatting a worksheet
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Formatting a worksheet
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Freeze Panes
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Freeze panes
Go to “View”
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Freeze panes
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Freeze panes
Click on “Freeze
Panes”
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Freeze panes
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Freeze panes
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Freeze panes
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Freeze panes
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Set Print Area
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Set print area
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Set print area
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Fast Scrolling
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Fast scrolling
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Fast scrolling
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Fast scrolling
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Fixing references
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Fixing references
We multiply
(Volume) * (Cost per Unit)
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Fixing references
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Fixing references
Let’s say that we want to do the following: We have to fix the column reference
1. Multiply (Volume) * (Cost per Unit) of Volume because we would like to
2. Copy the ready formula and multiple multiply by Volume when we copy to
(Volume) * (Price per Unit) the right
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Fixing references
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Fixing references
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Fixing references
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Fixing references
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Text to columns
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Text to columns
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Text to columns
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Text to columns
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Pick “Delimted” if the data follows a
given pattern
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Pick “Fixed width” if you want to
separate the data into columns
mechanically
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Text to columns
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Text to columns
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Text to columns
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Text to columns
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Alt + Enter
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Alt + Enter
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Alt + Enter
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Wrap text
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Wrap text
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Wrap text
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Custom sort
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Custom sort
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Custom sort
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Select the whole table
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Go to the “Home” menu and select
“Custom Sort”
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Custom sort
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Criteria How to order
the data
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Column according to
which to sort by
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Custom sort
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Select special
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Select special
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Select special
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Select the whole table
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Click F5
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Click on “Special”
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Select special
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Select special
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Data validation
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Data validation
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Data validation
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Data validation
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Data validation
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Data validation
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Data validation
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Go to “Data”, “Data Validation”
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Select the third tab within the
dialog box, which opens
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Unselect the box saying “Show
error…”
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Dynamic naming
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Dynamic naming
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Type equal, as if you are
creating a formula
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Put within brackets the hard
text. In this case “P&L:”
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Dynamic naming
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Custom formatting of cells
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Custom formatting of cells
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Custom formatting of cells
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Right-click on the cell/range of cells
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Go to “Format cells”
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Click on “Custom”
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Type in the menu the desired number
format
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Custom formatting of cells
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Custom formatting of cells
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Recording Macros
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Recording Macros
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Recording Macros
Click on “Developer”
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Recording Macros
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Recording Macros
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Recording Macros
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Recording Macros
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Name cell ranges
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Name cell ranges
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Name cell ranges
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