Excell Notes Ch1 and Ch2
Excell Notes Ch1 and Ch2
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
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.
Useful Tools&Tips
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
8. Pivot Tables simplify the work with large quantities of the data.
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
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.
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.
1. Select the range of cells for which you would like to create a drop-down
list
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
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.
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.
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