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Exploring Microsoft Excel’s Hidden Treasures

By : David Ringstrom
Book Image

Exploring Microsoft Excel’s Hidden Treasures

By: David Ringstrom

Overview of this book

David Ringstrom coined the phrase “Either you work Excel, or it works you!” after observing how many users carry out tasks inefficiently. In this book, you’ll learn how to get more done with less effort. This book will enable you to create resilient spreadsheets that are easy for others to use as well, while incorporating spreadsheet disaster preparedness techniques. The time-saving techniques covered in the book include creating custom shortcuts and icons to streamline repetitive tasks, as well as automating them with features such as Tables and Custom Views. You’ll see how Conditional Formatting enables you to apply colors, Cell icons, and other formatting on-demand as your data changes. You’ll be empowered to protect the integrity of spreadsheets and increase usability by implementing internal controls, and understand how to solve problems with What-If Analysis features. In addition, you’ll master new features and functions such as XLOOKUP, Dynamic Array functions, LET and LAMBDA, and Power Query, while learning how to leverage shortcuts and nuances in Excel. By the end of this book, you’ll have a broader awareness of how to avoid pitfalls in Excel. You’ll be empowered to work more effectively in Excel, having gained a deeper understanding of the frustrating oddities that can arise daily in Excel.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Part 1: Improving Accessibility
6
Part 2:Spreadsheet Interactivity and Automation
12
Part 3: Data Analysis

Hiding and unhiding worksheets

As I mentioned previously, the Custom Views feature captures views for the entire workbook, including the hidden or visible status of each worksheet. First, let’s learn how to manually hide and unhide worksheets, which we’ll then automate with a Custom View.

You can easily hide any number of worksheets:

  1. Open the example workbook for this chapter.
  2. Select the January worksheet, hold down the Shift key, and click on the Table Feature worksheet.
  3. Right-click any worksheet tab and then choose Hide (or choose Home | Format | Hide & Unhide | Hide Sheet).

At this point, only the Summary worksheet should be visible. Excel requires that you have at least one visible worksheet in each workbook.

Tip

If you want to hide an entire workbook but still keep it open in Excel, choose View | Hide. You can then choose View | Unhide to redisplay the workbook.

Historically, unhiding worksheets in Excel has been a tedious...