Doodling over the document

Excel is increasingly being used on mobile devices. Although, due to their size, they are not the ideal solution for making reports, as they enable mobility, these computers or tablet devices are a great solution for the presentation of reports. Recently Excel got a group of options, integrated in the Draw ribbon, which allow you to doodle over report and leave comments, just like you would do with the pencil.

Ideas

Power BI has for some time been equipped with feature that enables it to analyze data, and then on the basis of them it is proposed to create appropriate visuals. From recent time such option exists in Excel, and for the time being it can only be used by Office 365 subscribers. This option is called Ideas. Let’s look at how Excel can offer you clues to help you get the most out of your data!

Events

Running the VBA program is most often initiated by an event. Events can be on the document-level (eg Open, Activate), worksheet (eg Calculate, Change), charts, applications, forms … The event that starts the subroutine is mainly a click on a button or object, object focus or change the content of the object. Some events are executed automatically after opening an existing or creating a new document …

VBA filtering

Filters are a very useful functionality that enables us to filter content in the table or area above which the autofilter was previously used based on a given criterion. This can be accomplished in many ways, but there is always an event that we are launching to perform the action. In this “recipe” you will learn how to filter the table with the help of previously prepared, combo lists.

Coloring the content

Colors help us to emphasize the contents of the worksheet, and the VBA allows you to do so through the code. You can change the colors of the font, background or cell border. This can be done in several ways: by specifying a VBA constant representing color, by typing a color code or by specifying a RGB color combination using the same name function …