Monthly Archives: March 1998

Make your printout the center of attention

Here’s the situation: You’ve just finished preparing your quarterly sales-projection worksheet. It’s the result of weeks of work culling information from branch offices, running numbers through regression analysis tools (you really don’t even know what they ARE) and other forecasting … Continue reading

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Find the missing links

No, we’re not talking about discovering the whereabouts of the Groks, those old school chums who had so much body hair by third grade, they could get into nightclubs. We’re talking about links you’ve added to your Excel spreadsheet. Add … Continue reading

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No more sheets

In the last tip, we showed you how to insert a new worksheet between two existing sheets. In that tip, we mentioned that the Excel default is 16 sheets to a workbook. If a given workbook needs only one or … Continue reading

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In roman times

Now that a better way of writing numbers has been around for a thousand years or so, wouldn’t you think people would stop using Roman numerals? They haven’t, though. You still run across them in copyright dates and other places … Continue reading

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Getting in shape

AutoShapes: If you haven’t experimented with this handy feature in Excel, now is the time to see how it works. Let’s imagine that you’ve just finished a worksheet that contains a chart. You can add labels to the chart to … Continue reading

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Showing up the boss, a hypothetical story

Your boss, who wouldn’t know a computer if it fell ten stories and crashed right next to him, narrowly missing killing him (you know this because you’ve tested it), is nonetheless remarkably free with his Excel advice. In fact, just … Continue reading

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Looking for Mr. toolbar

Months ago, perhaps, we told you that if you need a Toolbar that Excel isn’t currently displaying, you can simply right-click in a blank area of the menu bar, and choose a Toolbar from the list that appears. Well, that … Continue reading

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Inserting a new worksheet

Let’s say you’re just working away on a multiple-sheet workbook. You suddenly realize that you really should have a sheet between Sheet 1 and Sheet 2. All is not lost. You don’t have to start all over. However, people levitra … Continue reading

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May we nag you for a moment?

If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a thousand times: YOU SHOULD GET IN THE HABIT OF SAVING YOUR WORKSHEETS. So why don’t you save regularly? Maybe it’s because you need more specific instructions. Press Ctrl + S at … Continue reading

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Keep your hands off my formulas, but my numbers are up gro grabs

Welcome to the third in our three-part series on worksheet protection (if you sat through the first two, you deserve this). Let’s say that you WANT other users to change the NUMBERS in a worksheet, but NOT the formulas, so … Continue reading

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