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Locking and Protecting Cells in Excel

Locking and Protecting Cells in Excel

Locking and Protecting Cells in Excel. There are times when working in Excel that you want to protect an entire worksheet from someone making changes to it, without protecting the entire workbook. Excel allows you to protect a particular sheet. To simply protect the...

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What you didn’t know about the Format Painter

What you didn’t know about the Format Painter

What you didn’t know about the Format Painter. Format Painter is a great tool, it can be used in any of the Office Applications, it allows you to copy formatting from one area/object to another, but did you know that’s only half of what it’s capable of? What if you...

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Conditional Formatting and Dropdown Menus

Conditional Formatting and Dropdown Menus

How to create a menu of options that when selected will change the colour of the cell. For example, selecting Cancelled from a list should change the cell background colour to red to indicate clearly to the user that the project or course etc. has not been given the...

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Excel Foundations

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Excel Formulas and Functions

Filtering by date number and text

Filtering by date number and text

This quick video explains how to Filter by Date, Number and Text in Excel. Filtering by Date Number and Text. Once a filter is applied to a list – we can filter based on the values in each of the rows. Here we look at applying filters using different data types in...

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Sorting and Filtering by Format

Sorting and Filtering by Format

This quick video explains Sorting and Filtering by Format in Excel. Sorting and Filtering by Format Excel provides a powerful new Filtering option – that allows us to Filter based on the format that the cell has been formatted in. This allows us to selected just rows...

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Data Validation

Data Validation

This quick video explains using Data Validation in Excel. We can use Excel’s powerful Data Validation rules to ensure that data entered into a cell is of the correct type and range for the table it is being inserted into – we can restrict the values for a cell using...

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Excel Analyzing Data

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Excel Charts

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Excel Reporting and Dashboards

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Excel Security and Design

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Excel Recording Macros and VBA

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