Saturday, May 28, 2011
Learn How To Use Excel from Beginner to Advanced
Saturday, April 9, 2011
MS Excel 2007 - How to Create a Simple Macro That Will Help You Save Time
Here's how you do it:
When you create your macro, you'll need to past the data you intend to format on a worksheet in the workbook. In the View tab on the ribbon, find the section called Macros. Click the lower portion of the button and select Record Macro. The Record Macro dialog box will appear. You'll need to give your macro a name. Any name will do, but you can't have any spaces or unusual characters. It's kind of like naming a file. Make it something you'll remember. Once you choose a name you can decide if you want to be able to activate the macro with a key stroke combination. Add the letter you want to use. Of course you have to stay away from letters that are already in use, like Ctrl + C or any of the numerous shortcuts already programmed into Excel. Choose the default option to store the macro in This Workbook. Until you get a little more comfortable with macros you'll want to use this option. Later you can learn how to keep your macros in a Personal Workbook that Excel will create for you. Click "OK" and from that point on every key stroke and mouse click you make will be recorded in the macro. Make all the changes you want to make to make your data more readable. You can format the header row, the columns, and even individual cells. You can even set up your print options including the Header and Footer. Any thing you do in Excel will be recorded and can be "played back" whenever you want. Once you've made all the changes, go back to the View section on the ribbon and click the bottom half of the Macro button. You'll see the option to stop recording. Click on that and you're done. To test your macro copy your unformatted data from the original report and paste it into the workbook on a new worksheet. Then, click the Macro button again. Select View Macros and you'll see your macro listed in the Macro dialog box. Highlight the macro name and click Run. Then you'll see your macro at work! If it's a short macro it may run so fast that you can barely keep up with the action. Presto! You just saved yourself the time it takes doing the same formatting tasks every time you need that report. If you don't like how the macro turned out, you can delete it and start over. Just highlight the macro in the Macro dialog box and click Delete.
The final step to make the workbook ready to go every time you need it. First, delete the worksheets you have already formatted, then save the workbook. That's it! Now, every time you run your report, just paste the data into the workbook and run your macro. It's amazing!
Friday, March 4, 2011
Undo and Redo in Microsoft Excel 2007
Microsoft Excel allows the users to Undo their mistakes, or to repeat some of the action by Redo button. This is the significant improvement that differentiate it way ahead of typewriter, under most of the condition, the users are allowed to correct their mistakes.
Mistakes like wrongly deleted sentences, copy and pasting errors, plotted charts with wrong data and so on are recorded by Microsoft Excel. You may Undo your action once mistakes detected, and it is absolutely okay for you to make any mistakes. Just exactly how it works behind the screen? When you are working on your worksheet, Microsoft Excel will record down steps that you take in your work. The steps are recorded in sequence, and you may initiate Undo when you need it.
For example, say now on cell A1, you enter text "This is a", and on the cell A2, you enter text "Mistake". Say you don't want to word "Mistake" and you wish to remove it. Of course one simple way is to delete the text "Mistake" from the worksheet, however, you may perform the same effect by choosing the Undo button.
You may find the Undo button easily on the Quick Access toolbar, just click on the Undo button you may remove the text "Mistake". Say now you enter the text "Success" on the cell A2 after pressing the Undo button, you will actually remove the text "Success". You can easily restore the word by pressing the Redo button, which sit next to the Undo button.
Microsoft Excel is able to track on up to 100 actions that you made on the worksheet. You may see the list when you click on the downward button beside the Undo button, a summary of number of actions will also be shown at the bottom of the list. For each action recorded, there will be a short description of action for you to understand better on exactly what you will be undoing, you don't want to undo those actions that you may want to keep.
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Microsoft Office Excel 2007 Inside Out
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Friday, December 17, 2010
Microsoft Excel 2007 Training - Intermediate
Microsoft Office Excel 2007 Intermediate
Code# : EEB201
Duration : 1 Day (8 hr)
Level : 201
Audience : Intermediate Student
Method : Classroom
Registration Fees : Early Bird-RM350, Late Bird-RM400
Trainee has the skills and knowledge required to create, edit, print and chart simple worksheets. It would also be beneficial to have a general understanding of personal computers and the Windows operating system environment.
Module #1
Number Formatting Techniques
→ Formatting Time
→ Formatting Dates
→ Using Alternate Currencies
→ Creating Custom Formats
Module #2
Conditional Formatting
→ Formatting & Clearing Cells Containing Values
→ Using Top 10 Items & Data Bar for Visual Trend
Module #3
Sorting & Filtering
→ Performing An Alphabetical Sort, More Than One Column & by Rows
→ Applying, Using and Clearing A Filter & Creating Custom Filters
→ Using Wildcards in Filter
Module #4
Charting Techniques
→ Create, Modify, and Edit Charts
→ Adding Trendline & Error Bars in Charts
Module #5
Advanced Formula & Function Techniques
→ Absolute & Relative Cell Referencing
→ Using Logical, Character, Lookup & References Formula
→ Error Checking, Editing & Hiding Formula
Module #6
Basic Pivot Table
→ Create Pivot Table & Pivot Chart
→ Modifying field in Pivot Table
Module #7
More Data Manipulation
→ Text to Column
→ Data Validation
→ Remove Duplicates
Module #8
Bonus: Excel Shortcuts
→ 20 Keyboards shortcuts to improve MS Excel 2007 efficiency
**Includes MS Office Excel 2007 Manual, Practical Lab & Stationeries
{Module is last updated on 3rd Dec 2010}