1. Excel Tips and Tricks Jon Paul Progressive System Solutions, Inc.
(Note- this was produced in 1997 for the 97 version of Excel)

2. So cold I know someone who slept with 16 sheets on their bed!
How Cold Was It?
So cold I know someone who slept with 16 sheets on their bed!

3. Just Open 1 Sheet! Select Tools from Menu Bar Select Options
Select General
Sheets in new workbook- change to 1

4. Moving Between Worksheets
Find arrow buttons in lower left hand side of screen
Right mouse click on far right arrow button
You now get list of sheets
If large number of sheets, select more sheets on the bottom
Scroll down to find the sheet you want
Click OK- away you go!

5. Moving or Copying a Worksheet
Right mouse click on worksheet name
Select move or copy
Choose a workbook you want to send it to
selects current workbook by default
Select where in the workbook you want it
Check Create a copy if you want to copy it
Otherwise you could be moving and not be expecting it!

6. Inserting or Deleting a Worksheet
Right mouse click on any worksheet name in your workbook
Select Insert
Double click on Worksheet to add a blank worksheet to your workbook
Can use same technique to add chart
Deleting- follow same steps only select Delete rather than Insert- be careful!

7. Driving With Half a Windshield
Give yourself a full view of your worksheet
One way to show the whole width- find Zoom box- on toolbar and shrink percentage
Even better way-
highlight every column in your worksheet
go to Zoom box on toolbar
choose Selection
will automatically resize worksheet for you
Just changes size of view, not column size

8. Your Car Has More Than One Window- So Can Your Worksheet
Window menu- select New Window
Gives you a second view of your current workbook
Second window is not sized
If going back to one window, make sure you are closing out the second
Windows will be identified by :1 or :2

9. Do You Leave Your Doors Unlocked?No
But How About Your Spreadsheets
Is Your Neighborhood Safe?

10. Protect Your Work! Protecting a Worksheet
First unlock cells you don’t want to protect- such as input cells
Then from Tools menu, select Protect Worksheet
Decide if you want Password protection- not needed if just protecting against input errors
Remember your password, or your work goes to spreadsheet heaven

11. Add the Club to Your Workbook
Protect Your Whole Workbook
In Tools menu, select Protection
Then select Protect WorkBook
Decide if you want password protection
Structure- prevents modifying structure
Windows- prevents opening, closing windows

12. You “Auto” Save This One!
Ever have your computer crash
Ever turned off your computer too quickly
And
You forgot to save your file!

13. Your Insurance- AutoSave
To enable AutoSave
Go to the Tools menu
Select Add-ins
The Add-in dialog box appears
Check AutoSave and click on OK

14. AutoSave Options AutoSave is now in your Tools menu
Go to Tools and select AutoSave
The AutoSave dialog appears
Select your choices
save automatically or prompt you
how often to save
open workbook or all workbooks

15. Painting Your House With a Small Paintbrush?
Excel’s Paintbrush- like a power sprayer
Select range of cells with format you like
Click on the Paintbrush button
Click the cells you want to reformat
When you release, cells are reformatted
If you double click on Paintbrush button, you can select non adjacient cells

16. Wrap That Text!
Put long strings of text together neatly in your columns without having to:
Run over to the next column
Make your column super wide
Select the cell or range (such as column)
Go to Format menu and select Cells
Go to Alignment Tab
Click in Wrap Text box

17. Does Your Data Make ‘Cents’?
Does anyone have $0.50 that I can borrow for the pop machine?
No, but I might have 50 cents.

18. Custom Formats- Adding Cents
Select a cell you want to format
From the Format menu select Cells
Choose Number and then Custom
Select a format for the number portion
Go to the type box and the right hand side
For the cent symbol, hold Alt key and type you see cent symbol on the screen
For the cent name, type a space and cents

19. The Lawyers are Coming! SM TM

20. Make Your Lawyer Happy!
Copyright-
type ( c ) and enter

21. Your Lawyer Is Getting Happier!
Supersript
type SM
highlight SM in formula bar
select format
check Superscript
cut down size of font

22. Now Your Lawyer Wants You to Train Their Staff!
Trademark- much easier
type ( t m ) and enter
no spaces inbetween

23. Come Together- Merging Text
Concatenate- easier to use than pronounce
Select cell where you want merged text
Click on formula bar or select Insert menu and then Function
In the Function dialog, choose Text on the left side and Concatenate on the right

24. Concatenating Tips Remember to include blank spaces inbetween items
Can refer to cells or put in text, but not at same time
Can copy concatenation formulas
Can use text and number results

25. It’s Time to Concatenate
Save retyping the same thing
Allow for automatic updates
Copying text where only part of the text is the same

26. If Only the Cubs Could Replace Their Lineup This Quick!
Find & Replace
Select Edit menu, then choose Replace

27. Replace Only What You Want To
Highlight what you want to change
Select Edit menu, then choose Replace
Enter what you want to find and what you want to replace it with
Decide if you want to match case or entire cell

28. Replacing- Finishing Steps- Selective Replacement
Choose option button to the right
Find Next- when you only want to replace in certain cases- you control the replacing
Replace- to go ahead and replace after you have found a cell you want
Click Find Next to find the next case
Click Replace for only those you want
Click OK when done

29. Replacing- Finishing Steps- Automatic Process
Use when you are sure you want to replace every instance in the area you selected
Activate by choosing Replace All button in right side of dialog box
Replaces everything in the area you choose
cell, cell block, worksheet, workbook
If you overdid it, go to the Edit menu and select undo (or click Ctrl + Z)

30. Replacing- Some Ways to Use
When something new is in the air!
Copying workbook, worksheet or formulas and using elsewhere
Changing links, text or formulas

31. Help- I Can’t Get This Unstuck!
Are you using Superglue when regular Elmers will do?

32. Pick Your ‘Glue’ Use the Paste Special Button
To begin, same step as full blown copy
Highlight area you want to copy
Go to area you want to paste to
Then select paste special one of two ways
Right mouse click or
Pull down from edit menu
Choose the Paste Special Option
Click on OK

33. Paste Special Options Formulas Values Formats All Except Borders
Transpose
Arithmetic Operation
Paste Link

34. They Have It In Rows, But I Want It In Columns- Transposing
Changing from rows to columns
Changing from columns to rows
When to use
Change layout on new sheet
Pull in information from a different layout (like he has it in columns and I want it in rows!)
Converting to database format

35. I Value Your Information- Paste Special- Value Option
You want to capture the value, but:
don’t need the formula
can’t use the formula because it won’t work in the new spot

36. I Like Your Layout- Paste Special- Format Option
You have a layout you want to copy, but don’t need the formulas or values
Particularly good if dealing with a whole block of cells
Consider the paintbrush button as another way to do this
Can do with another paste special option
first do the other option, then do format

37. I Like Your Formula- But Where Did You Get That Layout?
Use the Paste Special- Formula option to just copy the formula
Can then format any way you like
Great to use when you already have your format set up in your destination and don’t want to override it

38. I Like Your Formula- But Don’t Box Me In!
Paste Special- All Except Borders
Pastes formulas and formats except for the borders
Use where you like the formula and formats but have a different setup for borders

39. Changing Data- We Won’t Tell Your Boss How Easy It Is
Paste Special- Operation option
Fast way to change data automatically
Add, subtract, multiply or divide
Usually use with the value option in Paste Special

40. How to Operate Put change in separate inactive cell
such as 1.10 to multiply by 10%
Copy that inactive cell
Go to where you want to make changes
this could be a whole range of cells
Select paste special and the operation
such as value and multiply
Click on OK to finish
Go back and erase the inactive cell

41. How Many Kids Do You Have?
We have an average size family
2.3 kids

42. Get A ‘Round’ to This Round functions for more meaningful numbers
2 or 3 kids, not 2.3 kids
Changes to whole number so next calculation also makes sense
at 10,000 per kid, cost is 20,000 or 30,000
Round, Roundup or Rounddown

43. Round to Your Size
Round- rounds up (5-9) or down (0-4), depending on the digits being rounded
Roundup- rounds up, away from zero
Rounddown- rounds down, closer to zero
How to do:
= Round(calculation, decimal places)
decimal places can be negative number
substitute Roundup or Rounddown if wanted

44. How Do You Eat at a Buffet?
Do You Take Everything They Offer You?
Rumor Has It That I Do!

45. You Wouldn’t Build a House Without These
Ceiling-
Round up to a nearest multiple (such as 10, 25)
Floor-
Same thing, only now you round down to a nearest multiple

46. You Don’t Have to Sum Everything Either
SUMIF function- choose just what you want to sum
Enter your criteria
Click on the cell where you want the sum
Pull down the Function dialog box
=SUMIF(Criteria Range,Criteria,Value Range)

47. More on SUMIF Criteria Range- list describing what you want to sum-
such as rate plan chosen
Criteria- which item from the list do you want to sum
such as which rate plan
Value Range- range which holds the values you want to sum
such as monthly bills by rate plan

48. Okay- How Many Did You Take?
COUNTIF- like SUMIF, but instead gives you a count
Not adding any values, so you only need the Criteria Range and the Criteria
=COUNTIF(Criteria Range, Criteria)
= COUNTIF(A2:A20,Basic Rate Plan)
counts number of times in A2:A20 that people chose the Basic Rate Plan

49. How Much or How Little? MAXIMUM MINIMUM =MAX(Range)
gives highest value in a range
MINIMUM
=MIN(Range)
gives lowest value in a range

50. Who’s Number Two?- You Might Care
Get LARGE or SMALL
=LARGE(Range,2)
shows who is 2nd largest in the Range
=SMALL(Range,3)
shows who is 3rd smallest in the Range

51. We Even Like Average Things
AVERAGE(Range)
=AVERAGE(A1:A20) gives average in A1-A20
Excludes blank cells; includes zeros
MEDIAN(Range)
Gives middle-most value in a range
MODE(Range)
Gives value that shows most often

52. Going Around in Circles?
The dreaded Circ message
Shows on bottom of screen
Keeps you from recalculating
Happens when two formulas refer to each other

53. Break out of the ‘Circ’ Find where the Circ is
If it just says Circ, it is in some other worksheet
If it says Circ F34 for example, you are there
go to the cell it mentions

54. Fixing the Circ- Next Find the link Check for cross referrals
use the auditing function if needed
Check for cross referrals
such as a=b and b=a
Remember your last move before the Circ

55. The Circ Still Won’t Go Away! or I Have Grown a Whole Colony!
How old is your backup of the file?
Change one formula at a time to values
when the Circ message goes away, that is the formula you need to fix
Delete sheets, columns or rows
Restore the copy and fix at that point

56. Make an Auditor Work for You!
Select tools from the menu bar
Pull down to auditing
Select the direction you want to go
dependents- where this cell links to
precedents- what links into this cell
Click on the arrow to go to that link
When done, go back to the auditing menu to remove the arrows

57. Other Auditing Tools Display formulas instead of values
Tools menu- select Options
Choose View tab
Select formulas in Windows options
Display information box for a cell
Select Information Box in display options

58. Ever See Someone Weigh Themselves One Limb at a Time?

59. Weighted Averages in One Calculation
Use the sum function
Sum the first group, but dotn’t close yet
Multiply times the second group
Enter the closing parenthesis, but don’t enter yet
To enter the formula:
Ctrl + Shift + Enter (all together)
You will see brackets around the sum

60. Weighted Average Example
= sum(c4:c15*d4:d15)
to enter formula hit Ctrl + Shift + Enter
now looks like = sum{(c4:c15*d4:d15)}
if you just hit enter, you will get a Value? error message
to fix, click on the formula in the formula bar and hit Ctrl + Shift + Enter

61. What’s Your Name?
Hi A3, I’m C4

62. What to Name
Columns
Rows
Ranges
Worksheets
Charts

63. Why Use Names? Because It’s Easier To:
Remember names than references
Write formulas
Check and debug formulas
Copy formulas
Make links
Protect against broken links
Do search and replace
Update as needed

64. Which Formula Is Easier to Check?
A3 - A5
Sales - Costs

65. How to Add Names- Name Box
Using the Name box- left of Formula bar
highlight the cell or range you want to name
click in the box and enter the name (no spaces)
hit enter (otherwise name does not get saved)

66. Adding Names- With Menu Bar
Using the Menu- individually define
highlight the cell or range you want to name
in Insert menu, select Names
select Define Names
give it a name and click OK
Using the Menu- group define
highlight the range you want to name
in Insert menu, select Names and Create Names
select rows and/or columns and click OK

67. Use Names to Add Constants
Example: WeekendFee = 9.95
Suppose you have a value you will use over and over again in a workbook
Use names to set up that constant
Makes sure you always use the same value
If needs to be changed, can do all at once
To set up constant, have to use Names menu

68. Referring to Names in Formulas
Go to cell and hit = or + to start formula
From Insert menu, choose Names and Paste
Select the Name and click OK
Can also select name by going to Name Box
Click on down arrow to pull up Name list
Select the Name and Enter
A third way- type in Name manually

69. Multiple Names in Formulas
You can have multiple names in formulas
To put in additional name:
Put in first name
Add the next part of your formula
Put in second name
Continue as needed

70. Show List of Names You can paste a list of all names to a sheet
Insert new worksheet and call it Names
From Insert menu choose Names and Paste
From dialog box select Paste List
Expand size of column as needed
Note- new Names not automatically added
Do paste link again as needed

71. Let’s Link Up Paste Special- Paste Link Option
Use when you want to have an automatic link to the original cell
Only works with pasting all or pasting all except borders
Great for starting at source and copying to the destination

72. More Than One Way to Link
Can also link starting from the destination cell:
Click on the destination cell
Enter “+” or “=“
Go to the source of the information
Hit enter to complete the link

73. Can You Name Another Link
Have you set up Names?
If so, you have an even better way to link
Get on the destination cell
Go to the Insert menu and select Names
Choose Paste option and select the Name
You now have a link to a Name range
Link needs to be in same relative position

74. Is Your Fence In Good Shape?- Check Your Links
In Edit menu, select Links
If Links is greyed out, you have no links
Can change source to different workbook
Open source if you want to check it out
If Update Source highlighted, may need to click on Update Now to update
If source already open, should automatically update

75. Sherlock Holmes Wishes He Was Around For This
Solver- find the answer you are looking for
Get the right answer right away, rather than having to keep guessing until you get it
Solve complex what-ifs very quickly
Solver is an add-in- to install:
In Tools menu, select Add-ins
In Add-in dialog, click on Solver and then OK

76. Solver Steps In Tools menu, select Solver
if Solver is not a choice, you need to add it in
Target cell- where your target to solve is
Equal to- specify value (or min or max)
By changing cells- cells you want to change to get target to desired value
Can add constraints but not needed
Click on Solve to let it run

77. Solver Result
If Solver finds results, you get Solver Results dialog box
Get choice to keep choice or restore original
Can also save choice as a scenario
If there is not a logical choice, Solver will come back and say it could not find one
In that case, restore original solution

78. Can’t Make Up Your Mind- Then Don’t
With Scenario Manager
You can see it many ways

79. Scenario Manager In Tools Menu, select Scenario Manager
Choose Add to add a scenario
Give scenario a name
Enter range of cells you want to change
can do by clicking on each cell or range
use comma inbetween multiples to separate
Next you get dialog box to input values

80. Scenario Setup Tips
Start with a scenario for the values you have in place- such as Expected
Percentages should go in at the decimal or percent value- .05 or 5% rather than 5
Can change multiple values in same scenario
Can go back and edit later
Add scenario toolbar

81. Showing Scenarios In Tool menu select Scenario Manager
You get the Scenario Manager dialog box
Highlight a scenario
Click on show to show the scenario
Can see results without closing dialog box
Even better way- use Scenario Manager toolbox

82. Tools Tim Allen Would Love!
Go to toolbar area- right click in open section to the right
Or in View menu, select Toolbars
You get a toolbar menu- go to Customize
Select the Utility category
Click and hold on scenario box at right
Drag to open area in toolbar section
You are done- now click Close

83. Scenario Summary- Show Your Scenario Results
In Tools menu, select Scenarios
In Scenario Manager, choose Summary
In next dialog box, select Scenario Summary and click OK
Your Scenario Summary is done in a separate worksheet

84. If I Could Lookup My Remote Control This Easy
Do powerful lookups in groups of data
Horizontal Lookup
Lookup rows of data in column that you select
Vertical Lookup
Lookup columns of data in row that you select

85. Horizontal Lookup Enter lookup value in a cell
Go to cell where you want the result
Click on formula bar or Insert menu and then Function to pull up Function box
Select Hlookup
Lookup value- cell where you have the value
Table array- range of data you want to lookup
Row index number- row number in the range of data you are looking up
Whether you want exact or approximate match

86. Vertical Lookup Enter lookup value in a cell
Go to cell where you want the result
Click on formula bar or Insert menu and then Function to pull up Function box
Select Vlookup
Lookup value- cell where you have the value
Table array- range of data you want to lookup
Column index number- Column number in the range of data you are looking up
Whether you want exact or approximate match

87. When to Use Lookups- In Case You Ever Need to Look This Up
When the data in the table will change- just change it in the table
When your If statements are getting too long
When you need a good way to summarize information

88. Lookup Pointers Have your data organized in a table
Use a range name for the table
Row and column numbers don’t change when you copy a lookup formula-
you need to edit these manually
Make the input cell absolute for copying or set it up as a range name also

89. When You Get to a Fork in the Road
Take it!
Your formulas can have forks to!

90. If Statements Get different results based on conditions
If(condition, value if true, value if false)
To do an If statement
Go to cell and type =If(
Type in condition- such as A1>B1
Type in value if condition is true- like +C3
Type in value if condition is false- like +C4
Type in ) and enter to finish
Here is a formula- =If(A1>B1,+C3,+C4)

91. Nests- Not Just For Birds
Use nesting to make powerful formulas!

92. Nesting- Here’s How Basic If statement Nested If statement
=if(b3=c3,+c1,+d1)
Nested If statement
=if(b3=c3,+c1,if(b3=d3,+d1,+e1))
A bigger nest
=if(b3=c3,+c1,if(b3=d3,+d1,if(b3=e3,+e1,+f1)))

93. Picture This- Building Better Charts
Store chart in separate sheet
Need to reformat a line?
double click on chart, then right mouse click the line, bar, etc. you want to change
Need to add or delete a section-
double click on the Chart Wizard
manually change the reference
Can’t find a line you are looking for?
hide the source of other lines to isolate this one

94. Help- My Chart Is In Mars
You have gotten the ugly External Reference is not valid message
happens when you delete a section in a worksheet that is still referred to in a chart
It is there in the chart, but now just a dot
Find the dot and click on it
Reference should show in formula bar
Delete the reference

95. Copying- Part of a Cell Click on the cell Go to the formula bar
Highlight the section you want
Right mouse click
Select copy
Go to where you want to paste
Select paste

96. Copying Part of a Cell- Use When:
Copying part of a formula from one cell to another
Debugging part of a long formula
copy pieces to individual cells to see the results of the various parts of the formula
Also can use this in reverse
do long formulas in pieces in different cells to test out first
then piece together the formula

97. Calculating Alternatives One at a Time?
Table that idea!
Instead, use data tables

98. Sample Data Table Layout

99. Data Table Setup Set up input cells 1 and 2 with sample value
Set up result cells with sample calculation
Block out rectangle for data table
Put formula in upper left corner of rectangle
Put input values in left column and top row of rectangle
Now ready for finishing steps
Format formula cell same color as its background so it doesn’t show

100. Data Tables- the Finish
Highlight the Data Table range
should be rectangle that includes row and column values; start in upper left corner
From Data menu, select Tables
Enter Row Input cell
Enter Column Input cell
You are done!

101. And You Thought Vegematic Could Slice and Dice!
Slice and Dice Your Data
Make Your Data Dance
Check Out Pivot Tables
Go 3D and Beyond

102. Get Your Data Ready Needs to be in a database format
Titles in the first row
Data in the other rows
Can use data imported from other files

103. Transfering Data to a Pivot Table
From Data menu, select Pivot Table
The Pivot Table Wizard appears
Choose your source- usually Excel database
Select the database range- include titles
Next drag field buttons to where you want that data in the pivot table (more on this)
Finish- create pivot table name

104. Pivot Table Field Buttons Options
Page- show data one “page” at at time on the screen- such as one MTA, then another
Rows and Columns- just as you think it is
Data- the data in the middle
remember, best if it is data (this is easy to forget)

105. Explore Pivot Table Power!
Move your field buttons around- like looking in a cube from a different angle
in and out of page view
from rows to columns
different order of fields

106. Here’s What One Looks Like

107. Other Pivoting Tips
When you refresh data you lose formats- consider a macro to restore the formats
You can do other things with the data- averages, counts, maximums, minimums
Can show same field twice-
such as a sum and an average
Consider different pivot tables for favorite views

108. Calculations- Just For You
You can build custom calculations
Great for repeat calculations that you will use in different workbooks or worksheets
Great for changing a factor (such as commissions) all at once
Gets automatically added to the User Defined function list
Call up the calculation from the Function Wizard just like built-in Excel functions

109. Calculation Example

110. Calculation Function Function Commission2(Revenue) Select Case Revenue
Case 0 To : Commission2 = 0
Case 1000# To : Commission2 = 0.04
Case 2500# To : Commission2 = 0.07
Case 5000# To : Commission2 = 0.1
Case 10000# To : Commission2 = 0.13
Case Is > : Commission2 = 0.15
End Select
End Function

111. Calculating the Commission

112. Elephants Can’t Fly, But Your Printer Can
Use macros to automate your page setups and printing
Use buttons to set up print routines you can easily go back to

113. Printing Macros- Setup
In Tools menu, select Record Macro
Then select Record New Macro
Give macro a name (like Print (and sheet))
can’t have space (so Print_Solver is OK)
Select options and assign it to the menu if you want it on the menu
Select OK to start recording

114. Print Macro- Recording
Go to sheet you want to print
If already on the sheet when you set up macro, then move to another sheet and back
Click on the print button
Then stop recording- click on the black box
You are done with the macro

115. Check Out the Print Macro
' Print_Solver Macro
' Macro recorded 4/8/97 by Preferred Customer '
Sub Print_Solver()
Sheets("Solver").Select
ActiveWindow.SelectedSheets.PrintOut Copies:=1
End Sub

116. Make More Print Macros
Go to the sheet where the print macro is located (name it Print Macros)
Highlight and copy Print_Solver
Go below Print_Solver and paste
Highlight the new macro
Change Solver in new macro to Scenarios
You now have your second print macro!

117. As Jay Leno Said- We’ll Make More- Here’s a Faster Way
Code a macro directly- here’s how
Go below Print_Scenarios
Enter two spaces
Start with ‘ (apostrophe) for comment
Finish the comment line
‘ Print_Sumif Macro
Enter another space- see next chart

118. Set Up Your Coding Now you are ready for the code
Enter Sub and Macro name in first code line
Sub Print_Sumif
Hit enter to finish this line
Hit enter again for a blank line
Next enter End Sub
Now we will go and enter the body

119. Finish Your Coding
Go back to the blank space inbetween the Sub and End Sub line- this is where we will put the code
Indent and then enter:
Sheets(“Sumif”).Select
Enter to finish that line; on next line enter:
ActiveWindow.SelectedSheets.PrintOut Copies:=1
That’s it- you finished!

120. Test Your Print Macro
You can test your macro while still in the Print Macro sheet
Keep your cursor in the body of the Print_Sumif macro
Then click on the green arrow in the toolbar above
Your macro is running!

121. Summary- Macro Parts Introductory Comments Sub- starts the macro
Body of the macro
End Sub- ends the macro

122. Tying the Macros Together
Macros can also run other macros
First, manually set up another macro
Name this macro Print_All
In the body add names of other print macros
Print_Solver
Print_Scenarios
Print_Sumif
This macro will run all 3 at the same time

123. That’s Fine But I Don’t Like the Page
One of the most cumbersome things in Excel can be setting up pages
Updating page setups isn’t much more fun
Macros to the rescue here too!

124. Setup the Print Setup Macro
Select a sheet you want to setup
Set up recording a macro like before
Tools menu, Record Macro
Select Record New Macro
Give macro a name- call it Print_Setup
Click OK to start recording the macro

125. Record the Print Setup Macro
You are now recording the macro
Go to the File menu- select Print Setup
Make the print setup choices you want
Click on OK to close print setup
Click black recorder button to stop recording macro

126. Using the Print Setup Macro
If settings you want are already same as the macro, just go ahead and run the macro
If not, go to Macro sheet with Print_Setup
Edit any setups you want to do differently on another sheet
Go to the sheet where you want to change the print setup
Run the macro

127. You Wouldn’t Dress Without Buttons
Use buttons for quick access to your macros
Ways to use:
For different print versions of the same sheet
On a print index worksheet to choose which sheets to print

128. Using Buttons Locate a sheet for the buttons (Print Index)
Right click in toolbar area and select Forms
Click the Button button (sorry, had to say it)
Go to the spot where you want the button
Click and draw the button in
You can assign a macro; click OK to finish
Right click on the button to rename it
Add label next to button if you like

129. Adding More Buttons Repeat previous steps or Copy current button
right mouse click and select copy
Paste the button to the new spot
Rename the new button
Right mouse click new button and choose Assign Macro
Assign macro that belongs to new button

130. Waiter- It’s Not on the Menu
Another option to buttons
Put it on the menu
In Tools, select Macro
Click on the macro and then Options
Check the box, Assign to Menu Item
Add a name for the menu bar (spaces okay)
Click OK
It’s now on the bottom of the Tools menu

131. Closing Ideas Use Those Names! Keep Values in Separate Cells-
don’t bury them in formulas
Build Formulas in Pieces
Split Your Work Into Separate Sheets or Workbooks
don’t overload a sheet or workbook
Keep Learning and Experiment

132. Progressive System Solutions, Inc.
Congratulations
You’re Ready to Excel!
Jon Paul
Progressive System Solutions, Inc.