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.

Field Tell me what you want to do is located in the extension of the toolbar tab, and it resembles the usual text input field where, on the left side, there is an icon that resembles a bulb. When you click on it, and then you start typing a question, the menu that opens below will automatically provide answers – shortcuts to options or menus that contain a group of options related to the term you entered. For example, if you begin to type the word “Insert picture” and before you finish it, Excel will already offer you options that could help you accomplish that task.

In addition to several options offered, at the bottom of the menu there will be two more that can be of importance. The first one is called “Get Help on …” and you can choose to search for help with the entered term by choosing her. Another, much more useful option, is called Smart Lookup and it is the news that came out of Office 2016. By activating this option or by clicking on a term, opening a context menu and then activating it to the right of the window opens a panel where Excel starts searching with Bing Search Engine Search for the term specified.