Too many worksheets?

If we choose to create a complex Excel document that combines all the elements of a business process, we will try to call everything nicely, mark it, color it … During this process, we will create multiple worksheets, and sometimes give them long names in order to describe them as accurately as possible. The trouble is that the document can then become overloaded. The goal of this “recipe” is to show you a simple trick to find the desired worksheet faster.

Whatta heck do ya want?

Some people use to say: “Whatta heck do ya want”? In a translation into Excel, this means “Tell me what you want to do”. All of you who have been using Excel for a long time recall a “animated clip”, a personal assistant to whom you could ask a question about working in an application. She has long retire, and since the 2016 version, an integral part of the user interface has become a field in which you can enter the term, after which Excel will offer you a solution for your problem.

Options for opening documents

Anyone who has elementary computer literacy can open a document, whether it’s Excel or some other file. Excel 2013 brought several novelties that, even in doing this simple operation, make daily work easier. These are options for creating shortcuts to the most frequently used documents in the menu and opening a copy of an existing document. More detailed, in the text that follows …

Formatting in service of reporting

In several previous posts I wrote about the formatting of the contents of the cell. In addition to the standard ways of displaying its content, users can also define custom views. User-defined formats can be greatly used to enrich the appearance of the report. Using them, we achieve effects similar to the conditional formatting technique, and we can easily copy them or use them to create formatting styles.

Custom formats

When formatting the content of a cell, one of the items that we can set up is the way the content of the cell is displayed. Since the options for creating such formats are in the Number tab of the Format Cells dialog box, the settings to be addressed are often called “formatting the number”. Although the content of a cell does not have to be a number. It can also be text, date, time or other information. Have you ever wondered: how to create custom formats?