Exploring Microsoft Excel's Hidden Treasures: Turbocharge your Excel proficiency with expert tips, automation techniques, and overlooked features

Discover timesaving features, accessibility and internal control approaches, data integrity improvements, and spreadsheet automation techniques by exploring Excel shortcuts and nuances in Microsoft 365, Excel versions till 2021

Key Features

• Get hands-on experience by carrying out techniques in detailed example workbooks
• Reclaim portions of your day by immediately implementing data integrity and automation features
• Incorporate spreadsheet disaster recovery techniques into your daily work

Book Description

David Ringstrom coined the phrase “Either you work Excel, or it works you!” after observing how many users carry out tasks inefficiently.

In this book, you’ll learn how to get more done with less effort. This book will enable you to create resilient spreadsheets that are easy for others to use as well, while incorporating spreadsheet disaster preparedness techniques. The time-saving techniques covered in the book include creating custom shortcuts and icons to streamline repetitive tasks, as well as automating them with features such as Tables and Custom Views. You’ll see how Conditional Formatting enables you to apply colors, Cell icons, and other formatting on-demand as your data changes. You’ll be empowered to protect the integrity of spreadsheets and increase usability by implementing internal controls, and understand how to solve problems with What-If Analysis features. In addition, you’ll master new features and functions such as XLOOKUP, Dynamic Array functions, LET and LAMBDA, and Power Query, while learning how to leverage shortcuts and nuances in Excel.

By the end of this book, you’ll have a broader awareness of how to avoid pitfalls in Excel. You’ll be empowered to work more effectively in Excel, having gained a deeper understanding of the frustrating oddities that can arise daily in Excel.

What you will learn

• Explore hidden and overlooked features that will save your time
• Implement disaster prevention and recovery techniques
• Improve spreadsheet accessibility for all users
• Bolster data integrity and spreadsheet resilience
• Craft code-free custom worksheet functions with LAMBDA
• Create code-free report automation with Power Query
• Integrate spreadsheet automation techniques with ease

Who this book is for

This book is for intermediate to advanced excel users working in diverse roles such as business users, accountants, project managers and business analysts among others. The more time that you spend in excel the more time this book will save you. You will be able to maximize your productivity by learning spreadsheet interactivity, accessibility and automation. This clear step-by-step explanation and detailed example workbook will help you to try out new techniques firsthand and leverage them for your business's advantage in no time.

Table of Contents

1. Implementing Accessibility
2. Disaster Recovery and File-Related Prompts
3. Quick Analysis Toolbar Treasures
4. Conditional Formatting
5. Data Validation and Form Controls
6. What-If Analysis
7. Automating Tasks with the Table Feature
8. Custom Views
9. Excel Quirks and Nuances
10. Lookup and Dynamic Array Functions
11. Names, LET, and LAMBDA
12. Power Query

David Ringstrom exclaimed “Well, this is a stupid program, you can't do anything with it” the first time that he launched Lotus 1-2-3 in 1987, unaware that pressing the slash key displayed the menu. That moment sealed his fate as he is now a nationally recognized spreadsheet expert. In 1991, David started a spreadsheet consulting practice that he still runs today. David has taught over 2,000 webinars and published hundreds of articles, all on Excel, and he imparts spreadsheet skills to thousands of college students each year. He is the author or coauthor of five books and the technical editor of over 40 books. He is a certified public accountant and a graduate of Georgia State University and has served in the United States Navy.