Calendar

There are several ways to create Excel calendar. Also there are multiple templates that you can use for that purpose. The goal of this „recipe“ is helping you to understand practical application of some important date&time functions, and creating a calendar is an ideal opportunity to do so. When you learn how to generate dates and positions they should fit in you can use calendar for planning activities or tracking project realization.

Forecast sheet

Forecast Sheet is an option used to calculate trends using specific forecasting functions. This is the Excel 2016 novelty. Based on the data provided for the appropriate time period, future values are forecasted and the lower and upper confidence interval is calculated. The calculated values are shown in the table along with a graph showing trends in data movement.

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.

Corporate reports

Working in large companies, especially multinational corporations, often involves periodically sending the standardized Excel reports that are intended to provide management with information about the business. These are usually consolidated balance sheets and other reports that display key performance indicators, and the employees who should fill them have a task to enter data into ready-made templates.

Picturesque charts

o far, in several “recipes,” you can find out how to create and beautify the charts. This one will be about how to combine charts and images. First, in the case of a simple column column, you will see how to replace the columns with the image. Then we will add the picture as a background. Although it will not be about new features here, using some tricks will help you to make your reports more beautiful.