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MS Excel: Disable Fill Handles and Drag-Drop Abilities

Posted on August 9, 2011 by cynmackley

Accidentally grabbing and dragging the fill handle? Find yourself staring at a piece of data you didn't place in the cell and have no idea how it got there? Here's an idea to try...

Posted in MS Excel, MS Office HelpTagged Fill Handles, MS ExcelLeave a comment

MS Office: Finding the Close All Command

Posted on July 27, 2011 by cynmackley

Tired of closing each Word document separately? Learn where to find the Close All command in the newest versions of Microsoft Office.

Posted in MS Excel, MS Office Help, MS PowerPoint, MS WordTagged Close All Command, ms officeLeave a comment

MS Excel: Sum It Up Super Quick

Posted on July 20, 2011 by cynmackley

Often I find myself writing a sum formula in MS Excel. It's not difficult and with Excel's Formula AutoComplete it really is simple to do, but today I have a technique that can improve our efficiency when it comes to this particular formula.

Posted in MS Excel, MS Office HelpTagged MS Excel, Ms Excel FormulasLeave a comment

MS Excel: The Quick Way to Turn Formula AutoComplete On or Off

Posted on July 19, 2011 by cynmackley

Learn to turn Excel's Formula AutoComplete feature on or off without going all the way into the programs options.

Posted in MS Excel, MS Office HelpTagged Formula AutoComplete, MS ExcelLeave a comment

MS Excel: Align it Top, Bottom or Middle

Posted on July 11, 2011 by cynmackley

Need to smooth things out in a too-tall row on an Excel worksheet? Give this alignment trick a try...

Posted in MS Excel, MS Office HelpTagged alignment, cell alignment, row height, vertical alignmentLeave a comment

MS Excel: The F6 Key – Worksheet, Ribbon, Zoom, Worksheet, Ribbon, Zoom

Posted on July 6, 2011 by cynmackley

Reach virtually any command in MS Excel with this incredibly quick keyboard shortcut!

Posted in MS Excel, MS Office HelpTagged Access the ribbon using the keyboard, Alt + number/letter, Keyboard Shortcuts, Microsoft Excel, MS ExcelLeave a comment

MS Excel: When You Need a Calculator But Don’t Feel Like Writing a Formula

Posted on June 29, 2011 by cynmackley

It happens to all of us - we're working on a spread sheet and we find that we need to calculate something but we just want to quickly get the information we need without all the formula writing nonsense. Thank goodness there's a calculator!

Posted in MS Excel, MS Office HelpTagged Excel Calculator, No Formula CalculationsLeave a comment

MS Excel: Extending Your Sequential Pattern

Posted on June 15, 2011 by cynmackley

Most Excel users know that if you have data in a cell you can use the fill handle to increase the selected cell range down a column or across a row. Well, what if that range is more than one? April explores.

Posted in MS Excel, MS Office Help, UncategorizedTagged Increase Cell Range in MS Excel by more than one, MS Excel Cell ranges, Sequential PattersLeave a comment

MS Excel 2010: See Your Trends With Spark

Posted on June 14, 2011 by cynmackley

With the release of Excel 2010 we have another quick, easy-to-use and powerful tool to take a graphic look at the trend found in a set of data... Sparklines.

Posted in MS Excel, MS Office HelpTagged Charts, Excel 2010, Graphs, SparklinesLeave a comment

MS Excel: Cells to a Table – No Mouse Required

Posted on June 13, 2011 by cynmackley

By now we've all found the Format as Table button on the Home tab of the Ribbon will take a range of selected cells in turn them into an easily and beautifully formatted table, but did you know there's an easier way?

Posted in MS Excel, MS Office HelpTagged Cells to a table, MS Excel Tables, No mouse to make Tables in ExcelLeave a comment

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