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Excell Notes Ch1 and Ch2

The document provides a comprehensive guide on various Excel functionalities, including shortcuts for editing, formatting, and managing sheets. It also covers useful tools and tips for data manipulation, such as inserting rows/columns, creating pivot tables, and using macros. Additionally, it includes instructions for advanced features like data validation, custom sorting, and conditional formatting.
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Excell Notes Ch1 and Ch2

The document provides a comprehensive guide on various Excel functionalities, including shortcuts for editing, formatting, and managing sheets. It also covers useful tools and tips for data manipulation, such as inserting rows/columns, creating pivot tables, and using macros. Additionally, it includes instructions for advanced features like data validation, custom sorting, and conditional formatting.
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Course Introduction

1. deleting sheets- right click on mouse and choose delete sheet.

2. Modification delete - Esc

3. Edit cell mode – F2

4. Formatting cells – right click and choose format cells. Or on the home tab.
Ctrl+1

5. Double-click with the left mouse button - to adjust the column’s size

6. The shortcut for selecting a column is Ctrl + Space.

7. The shortcut for selecting a row is Shift + Space

8. If you want to insert an empty column in a sheet, select the column before which
you would like to insert a new column, right-click with the mouse and choose
“Insert”, or just use “Ctrl ,Shift and +”.

9. If you want to insert an empty row in a sheet, select the row before which you
would like to insert a new row, right-click with the mouse and choose “Insert”, or
just use “Ctrl ,Shift and +”.

10. If you want to delete a column in a sheet, select the column, right-click with the
mouse and choose “Delete”, or just use Ctrl and - .

11. If you want to delete a row in a sheet, select the row, right-click with the mouse
and choose “Delete”, or just use Ctrl and - .

12. If you would like to repeat the last action that was performed you can do that by
using the F4 button or Ctrl+Y.

13. Ctrl+C – Copy

14. Ctrl+V – Paste

15. Ctrl+X – Cut

16. Ctrl+1 – Cell Format

17. Ctrl+Alt+V – Paste Special

18. Ctrl+Z – Undo

19. Select cells Shift + Arrow key

Useful Tools&Tips

1. Ctrl+A - Selecting entire worksheet

2. Inserting a Line break – Alt+Enter

3. Text to columns - Go to “Data” and select “Text to Columns

4. Set Print Area - Select the area that you would like to be printed and go to Page
Layout and choose Ser Print area.

5. Wrap Text

6. Inserting Hyperlinks - Ctrl+K


7. Freeze Panes - go to ‘’ View” select a row below from the row you want to
freeze and click ‘’Freeze Panes’’.

8. Pivot Tables simplify the work with large quantities of the data.

9. Formatting a worksheet – 1.Select the entire worksheet. 2.Change the color of


the sheet to white. 3.Adjust the width of the first column to 1.25. 4.Select the
entire sheet. 5.Choose Arial, font size 9. 6. B1 will be the title of the sheet,
Assign a font size of 12 and a dark blue color to the text(bold).

10. Recording Macros – 1.Every action that you perform while recording will be
memorized Once you are ready, click on “Stop Recording”. 2. Click on
“Macros”, select the Macro that you recorded and then “Run”. 3. It will
reperform all the actions that you took in the Excel sheet while recording it !Be
careful because you can’t undo a Macro

11. Ctrl+Shift+Arrow keys – selecting cells till the end

12. F5+Enter – Double click to see first input of the formula and F5+Enter to go
back to formula itself.

13. $ - is used to fix references. Putting $ before column letter ($G4) fixes column
reference and putting $ before row number (G$4) fixes row.

14. Select Special – 1.Select the whole table 2.Click F5 2 3.Click on “Special 4.
Choose a criteria according to which you would like to select cells within the
table.

15.Dynamic naming - In order to create dynamic names within a model: Type


equal, as if you are creating a formula 1.Put within brackets the hard text. In this
case “P&L:” 2.Use the “&” function in order to link to a given cell (C4 in this
example). 3.Change the content of C4 and it automatically updates in H4 as
well.

16. Name cell ranges - Select a cell or a cell range and click in this box and assign
a name of your choosing to the cell/cell range.

17. Data Validation - In order to create a drop-down list we have to do the


following:

1. Select the range of cells for which you would like to create a drop-down
list

2. Go to the “Data” menu and click on “Data Validation”

3. In the dialog box which opens select the type of data that you would like
to have in the selected range

4. Pick which values will be included in the list and click OK.

18. Custom sort – 1. Select the whole table 2. Go to the “Home” menu and select
“Custom Sort” 3. Column according to which to sort by 4. Criteria 5. How to
order the data

19. Alt+ opens shortcuts in home tab.

20. Multiply by 1 – there are some cases that excel can’t read all numbers( 3,1
reads this as text) that’s why multiplying by one all the numbers so we can see
the Errors and we can easily fix them.

21. Find and Replace - Ctrl+H


22. Green references – Background error checking. Can be disabled in formula in
options.

23. The Professional Way of Saving File in Excel – Select A1 in every sheet
before saving the file. Because when you save the file, Excel remembers which
cell you were in every sheet before saving the file. It may look unprofessional and
untidy when you send your excel file to someone.

24. Conditional Formatting – helps to read the data easily. On Home tab.

25. Custom Cell Formatting – four fields separated by ; or , 1) Postive number 2)


Negative numbers 3) How to display 0 4) How to display text

45+25+63 mins

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