A few options exist for controlling some of Excel’s AutoFormat behavior.
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Microsoft Excel: Printing all sheets
Tips for printing all of the worksheets in an Excel workbook at one time.
Excel: Keyboarding for speed
With speed in mind, here are a few of my favorite Excel keyboard commands. How many do you already know?
Excel: The right format is the wrong format
I can’t figure out why the decimals and commas in my Excel-based cash flow statement (using the “Accounting Format”) don’t line up properly. What’s going on?
Excel: This forecast was bound to happen
Excel 2016 provides a new tool called Forecast Sheet that automatically calculates and plots your upper and lower forecast boundaries based on your desired level of confidence.
Excel: How to make an Excel-lent bull’s-eye chart
Use a little trickery to create a bull’s-eye chart in Excel.
Microsoft Excel: Does this make my data look flat?
How to “flatten” data in Excel.
Microsoft Excel: Make your days more colorful
How to use Microsoft Excel’s Color Scale format.
Microsoft Excel: Become an Excel groupie
Tips for using Excel’s Subtotal and PivotTable tools.
Microsoft Excel: Excel in handcuffs
How to unhide unused columns and rows.
Microsoft Excel: Failure to launch
How to get Excel to open a new blank workbook upon launching the program.
Microsoft Excel: A formula for going green
How to color-code formulas in Excel.
Microsoft Excel: Rowing logically
How to convert these two or three lines of data records into single rows.
Excel: The power of mapping
CPAs often have to produce recurring reports, such as quarterly balance sheets, from datasets, such as trial balances. The process can be tedious and prone to error, but an Excel technique called mapping can show the way to better results. Learn more in this Technology Workshop.
Excel at hyphen removal
J. Carlton Collins outlines two ways to remove hyphens from Social Security numbers in Excel.
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