Using Find & Select for Objects in Excel When we build large models for our consulting clients, we will typically include a navigation dashboard to allow the user to easily jump to various parts of the model with just a mouse click. These dashboards are constructed via hyperlinked shapes or text...

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Closing Workbooks in Excel with Alt + F4 At Training The Street, we are strong advocates of using the keyboard for all things Excel. This includes the creation of new workbooks right up to and including the closing of these workbooks – or even the closing of Excel itself. Most people know...

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Evaluating an Excel Formula with “Edit” Mode and the F9 Key Almost everybody knows that pressing the F9 key in Excel recalculates all of the worksheets within all of the workbooks that a user has open. What many people don’t know, however, is that F9 can also be used to understand...

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Organizing Workbook Tabs in Excel Everyone knows that well-formatted Excel models look professional and instill confidence in the user. This may seem intuitive for a large analysis like your budget model, but what about a quick and simple one-time analysis? You have been asked by your boss to prepare a quick “back-of-the-envelope”...

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How to Reduce Excel File Size Did you ever wonder why your seemingly simple Excel file is so large (in terms of KB or MB) or why it seems “sluggish”? We recently received a file from a client who was frustrated because it was taking Excel way too long to open...

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Excel’s “Double” F2 Key Everybody (well, almost everybody) knows that pressing the F2 key in Excel activates the “editing” mode for the active cell – the cursor goes into the cell so that you can change the contents, and the various cell references in that formula turn different colors. What many people...

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Toggling Between Open Excel Files Using the CTRL + F6 Shortcut Many PC users know that Alt + Tab cycles through all the files and programs that are open on your computer. However, if you are working in Excel and you just want to toggle between all of your open spreadsheets,...

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Help, I Am Lost in this Massive Excel File! A Short Guide to Hyperlinks in Excel Have you ever opened an Excel file and seen multiple tabs each containing multiple schedules? Did you start working through the file and find yourself frustrated going back and forth between different schedules and /...

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Data Tables Part II – Building an Excel Data Table Across Worksheets This article will dive into more detail on one of the particular issues we identified within a previous resource, which is that Excel’s data table must be on the same worksheet as the original inputs being sensitized. Part I...

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Top 5 Time-Saving Tips to Automate Excel Charts Data analysis, communication, and visualization continue to grow in importance and popularity. At TTS, Data Analysis and Communications with Excel, Power BI, and Python Training (Part 1 and Part 2) are among our fastest-growing, highest-demand courses, so it's important to learn and utilize time-saving tricks to...

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