Excel

A printed spreadsheet is a difficult thing to customize properly. Whether you need lines between cells, you need it centered on the page, or you need to repeat a row on every page, there are a lot of options to consider. But perhaps one of the biggest challenge when printing in Excel is ensuring that […]

It’s common for someone creating a spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel to want to to draw attention to specific bits of data. One way that this is often accomplished is by highlighting a cell, column, or row with a different color. This catches the reader’s eye, and usually indicates that something in that row requires attention. […]

It can be helpful when you are using a program to receive some sort of notification if you have completed a task. It can also be helpful to receive an indication when you aren’t able to complete something, or if an action was unsuccessful. Excel can provide information like this through feedback sounds, which play […]

Once you’ve finished adding the data to your spreadsheet, your attention typically turns to making sure that the data is presented in a way that is easy for your readers. Whether this involves changing the font, making the columns and rows bigger, or adjusting print settings, there are a number of different actions that you […]

When you are working with a lot of data in an Excel spreadsheet, screen real estate becomes very important. Constantly having to scroll to see important information can get tedious, especially if the information you need to see is only a cell or two out of view. If you find that the scroll bars are […]

Excel spreadsheets are usually easy to read on a computer screen without changing too many settings. Things can get a little tricky if you have a lot of columns or rows, but it’s still typically manageable. Most of the formatting and display issues that arise come when you need to print that spreadsheet. Printed data […]

Have you ever gone to print a spreadsheet in Excel, only to have your pages broken up in weird spots, or certain rows or columns entirely excluded? In many cases this is due to an incorrectly-defined print area. If your spreadsheet has a print area that is missing some of your data or splitting it […]

When you create a new spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel, that spreadsheet will use the default page size for normal documents. This is dictated by your geographic location, and will likely be either Letter or A4. But sometimes you are going to create a spreadsheet that is quite large, and you may want to fit more […]

There are many ways that you can customize a spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel. From options like adding a row to the top of every page when you print to centering data within your cells, you have tons of options available to you to make your spreadsheet look how you want. But there are also ways […]

The formula bar above the cells in your Excel spreadsheet provides a convenient, centralized location for you to view and create formulas in your cells. But, depending on how you use Excel, you may not actually be using or need that space, as you are able to type formulas directly into your cells. If you […]