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ORGANIZING INGREDIENTS Managing Data in Excel WPTA Conference, April 19 th , 2018

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ORGANIZING INGREDIENTS

Managing Data in ExcelWPTA Conference, April 19th, 2018

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Agenda

◦ Shortcuts

◦ Sorting

◦ Basic Formulas

◦ Charts

◦ Printing

◦ Marcos

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Navigation Shortcuts

◦ Right click tab navigation arrows

◦ Ctrl click moves from one end to the other

◦ Ctrl Page Down & Up moves between sheets

◦ Ctrl arrow keys move to end/start

◦ Adjust the Quick Access Toolbar

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Shortcuts

◦ Ctrl Enter – Enters the amount, formula, name into all selected cells

◦ Right click and drag, Copy as Values Only

◦ Double Click bottom right to Copy

◦ Ctrl . – Moving around a table

◦ Double click to size rows or columns

◦ Ctrl ~ (tilde) for formulas

◦ Ctrl – F2 print preview

◦ Ctrl + ; saved forever. Current day, =today()

◦ =now() or Ctrl + Shift + ;

◦ 5 p for 5 PM

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Shortcuts

◦ Ctrl + scroll wheel, zoom

◦ View, Split Screen on a row, or top visible row for vertical split

◦ Auto-calculate customization

◦ Right click status bar for other options

◦ Ctrl + drag on numbers, but not dates

◦ Ctrl + Z, Undo

◦ Ctrl + Y, repeat, or F4

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Sorting

◦ Sort with numbers in new column

◦ Freeze Panes

◦ Find and Select, Go to Special, Blanks (F5)

◦ =cell above, ctrl + enter

◦ Display or print only top cell, conditional formatting, =cell above then white

◦ Copy without hidden rows, select data you see, Alt + ; to select without hidden data

◦ Go to Special, visible data only

◦ Custom lists for data entry

◦ Sort remembers last sort order

◦ Alt + A + SA

◦ =Trim(, remove unwanted spaces

◦ Flash Fill – Sometimes Excel doesn’t see it at first

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Sorting

◦ Copy to another location, unique records

◦ Copy records to word, find and replace new line characters

◦ Text to Columns

◦ Shift and left click to drag columns

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Formulas

◦ =Proper, =Trim

◦ =Sumif

◦ =Isblank

◦ =Text, use for leading 0s

◦ =Rept, then use =len to find the length of an entry

◦ =concatenate

◦ =countblank, isblank

◦ Create table, then use ‘table’ and [field]

◦ =left, mid, right

◦ =workday

◦ =frequency

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Charts

◦ F11 – new chart on new worksheet

◦ Alt+F1 – chart on same worksheet

◦ Dynamic image

◦ =A1, chart titles from other cells simply add formula

◦ Switch row/Column

◦ Show empty cells as gap, zero, line

◦ Right click on line of chart

◦ Gantt Chart

◦ Stacked Bar

◦ Categories in reverse order

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Linked Chart

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Printing

◦ Simply expand the rows

◦ Gridlines from print preview

◦ Row alignment helps also

◦ Color all formula cells

◦ =isformula

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Macros

◦ Record and run a simple macro

◦ Use this for repeat processes

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Contact

◦ Philip Steffen

◦ City of Anacortes

◦ 360-293-1903

[email protected]