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.

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?

Inventory

Inventory is necessary but always dull (whatever kind of inventory you do). Since some time ago and I was a member of the Inventory Commission, this experience has served as an inspiration to write an article about a good way of using collaboration tools in Excel (Shared tables) to facilitate inventory process. This is also a good way to use Windows tablets that your company have bought. Most of the time they are only used for show off, and now they could have a real purpose.

Link to other Excel documents

When making reports, multiple Excel documents are often used. As you know, data in another worksheet or other document, if it is open, we can easily access by specifying the absolute address of a cell or cell range. But what if we want to access a closed document? And can Excel be used as a data repository? About the link to other Excel files more in the text that follows.

Connecting with a database

Excel is a software with lots of features, but perhaps its best application is data analysis. In order to have something to analyze, we must retrieve the data. Operational data are held in relational databases, so we should connect to DBMS. Most of the time it is and istance of Microsoft SQL Server. When connecting we’ll importing a content of a table, view or result of a query into Excel worksheet.