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Exploring Microsoft Excel’s Hidden Treasures

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Product type Book
Published in Sep 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803243948
Pages 444 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
David Ringstrom David Ringstrom
Profile icon David Ringstrom

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1: Improving Accessibility
2. Chapter 1: Implementing Accessibility 3. Chapter 2: Disaster Recovery and File-Related Prompts 4. Chapter 3: Quick Access Toolbar Treasures 5. Chapter 4: Conditional Formatting 6. Part 2:Spreadsheet Interactivity and Automation
7. Chapter 5: Data Validation and Form Controls 8. Chapter 6: What-If Analysis 9. Chapter 7: Automating Tasks with the Table Feature 10. Chapter 8: Custom Views 11. Chapter 9: Excel Quirks and Nuances 12. Part 3: Data Analysis
13. Chapter 10: Lookup and Dynamic Array Functions 14. Chapter 11: Names, LET, and LAMBDA 15. Chapter 12: Power Query 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Adding Ribbon commands to the toolbar

It might feel redundant to add commands from the Ribbon to your Quick Access Toolbar, but doing so provides two benefits. First, the Quick Access Toolbar is always visible when the Ribbon is displayed, which means you don’t have to activate a specific Ribbon tab. Second, adding commands to the toolbar assigns keyboard shortcuts to commands such as Home | Center, that were deemed not to warrant a built-in shortcut.

Center text

A long-time quibble I’ve had with Excel for Windows is that you can’t press Ctrl + E to center text the way that you can in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, or Outlook. There wasn’t a shortcut assigned to Ctrl + E for decades until the Flash Fill feature debuted in Excel 2013. with Ctrl + E now activates Flash Fill in Excel for Windows, while in Excel for macOS + E centers text, and Flash Fill doesn't have a shortcut. Fortunately, you can create your own keyboard shortcut for centering text...

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