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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

Applying print settings on demand

By default, Custom Views captures the print settings currently in place for each worksheet included in the view, unless you clear the Print Settings checkbox when creating a view. Let’s create an audit view of a worksheet that will illustrate some additional settings that you can manage by way of the Custom Views feature:

  1. Open the example workbook for this chapter and activate the Loan Calculator worksheet.
  2. Maximize the worksheet window if necessary so that you can see how Custom Views can resize windows:
    • Excel for Windows: Click the Maximize button, which looks like a square in the top right-hand corner of the title bar.

Tip

If you see two overlapping squares in the top right-hand corner of the title bar – which represent the Restore Down button – then your window is already maximized.

  • Excel for macOS: Click the green Enter Full Screen button in the title bar of the window.
  1. Choose View...