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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

Summary

In this chapter, you saw the range of features that can be controlled by way of Excel’s Custom Views feature. Instead of creating supplemental worksheets that offer summarized views of detailed worksheets that you must maintain when the detailed worksheets change, you may instead be able to use the Custom Views feature to create multipurpose worksheets.

It's easy to overlook Custom Views that you or others have created. You can make this feature more accessible by adding the Custom Views drop-down menu to the Quick Access Toolbar of any workbook that utilizes the Custom Views feature. Remember, you cannot edit a Custom View, but you can save over an existing view. You can also delete an view and then create a replacement.

You can also spend less time navigating within large workbooks by hiding sheets that aren’t relevant to your current task, and then easily unhide all sheets again with a couple of mouse clicks. You can also assign multiple print ranges...