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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

Workbook-specific toolbars

So far in this chapter, every change we’ve made to the Quick Access Toolbar has been a global change, meaning the commands will be available in every workbook that you open. You can also create toolbars that are specific to individual workbooks, which means that anyone else who opens the workbook will be able to access the custom toolbar. If you add Custom Views in the fashion I described in the previous section, most of the time, you’ll end up with a blank list consuming space on your toolbar. This technique requires Excel for Windows, as it is not possible in Excel for macOS. Here’s how to create a workbook-specific Quick Access Toolbar:

  1. Access the Quick Access Toolbar section of the Excel Options dialog box.
  2. Choose a workbook name from the Customize Quick Access Toolbar list above the second column, on the right-hand side, as shown in Figure 3.12:

Figure 3.12 – Workbook-specific Quick Access...