Excel has recently gained several new features that make it easier to focus on the content, i.e. the tables we work with. First, the menu with color palettes is now much larger and more noticeable, and the choice of colors is more adapted to visually impaired people or those who do not perceive the differences between colors well. Then there is a new option that allows you to focus on the cell, making it easier to work with large tables.
Microsoft is constantly working to improve the user experience and make everyday work in Excel easier. A few years ago, the „Tell me what you want to do“ option appeared, and later its functionality was integrated into the Search field, which you can still see in the title bar of any Excel document. Search is now part of the context menu, and browsing Excel features is even easier than before…
There are several ways to multiply Excel formulas: by simply copying, creating a series that multiplies values, using a variant of the Paste Special option that copies formulas… However, in everyday work, shortcuts will mean a lot to you and they will make you more productive. In the text that follows, you will find out more about such shortcuts…
Since the release of Excel 2007 it has been storing data as an XML file. This is a good practice if we want to exchange spreadsheets between different platforms, or even operating systems, but when it comes to complex calculations, which contain hundreds of thousands of rows, such documents can take up a lot of disk space. This can be overcome by saving with the use of the XSLB extension. You can read about the advantages and disadvantages of this approach in the text that follows.
The Paste Special option provides a number of ways to manipulate the values that need to be pasted back into the document. One of them is calculation, where it is possible to select a cell that contains a value, and then a range with values for calculation that will perform one of the four elementary mathematical operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division). This can increase productivity, let’s see how it is used!