Searching the ranges

The search of data ranges is most often done with the help of LOOKUP functions, where we enter the  criteria value, the search range (table) and the column containing the result values. After entering the formula, Excel finds and displays the requested value. There are several more ways to search the ranges when it is done relative to their position, which will be discussed more in the text that follows …

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 …

Hyperlinks

We meet the hyperlinks every day while surfing the Internet, and they have long time ago become part of Office applications. In Excel, this is often an unfairly ignored functionality. In addition to allowing you to go to an Internet presentation or write a letter to the specified e-mail address, a link can also be used to create a new document or position it on a prefix in an existing document.

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.

Digital signature

A digital signature is a way to check the authenticity of a digital message or document. A valid digital signature is a proof that a message or document has been created by a well-known author, and that she has reached the recipient in the unmodified form. The text that follows will first be about the digital certificate, then how the user signature is inserted into the Excel, the digital certificate is appended and the digital signature of the document is generated.