Excel for Mac

ebook Tips and Tricks

By Denzell Tudor

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This course features tons of tips to make Excel for MacBook users more proficient and productive with the popular spreadsheet program. Learn the top shortcuts, find out how to most efficiently navigate and control the display, and discover the best ways to select, enter, and format data. The course also includes ways to leverage drag-and-drop features, shortcuts for formulas and operations, data management efficiency techniques, guidelines for working with charts efficiently, and a selection of quick tips.

Topics include:

  • Converting formulas to values with a simple drag

  • Entering today's date or time instantly

  • Accessing Ribbon Commands from the keyboard

  • Creating split screens fast

  • Navigating and zooming quickly

  • Entering data more efficiently

  • Performing calculations without formulas

  • Applying formatting with keyboard shortcuts

  • Quickly cleaning up extra spaces and deleting duplicate entries

    Most Excel users are underutilizing it, because they are not aware of the many keystrokes shortcuts and techniques that they could be using. Whether you need to create formulas quickly, split data into columns, apply numeric formats, create charts in a flash, accelerate data entry chores, or just learn the top 10 shortcuts that ever Excel user should know. You can save time by learning some of the tips in this course.

    The skills acquired from this version are mostly applicable to newer versions of Excel.

    If you think that Microsoft Excel is only for business purposes, you are wrong. Many use it for various personal needs at home too. Some of the features that you should understand about Microsoft Excel to unlock the potentiality of this application are working with spreadsheets, cell formatting, various menus and toolbars, entering of data and editing the same, navigating between various spreadsheets, formula calculation, inserting various functions like date/time, mathematical functions, using of various charts that are available, inserting, editing and deleting comments on cells, etc.

    Computer Based Training (CBT) is a way to master MS Excel. This is where you take your own time to master the application. With the help of CBT, you get realistic, interactive and complete training. You get to learn right from what a beginner should learn to advanced level. Once the training is over, you would have mastered Microsoft Excel. You get to see simulations of Microsoft Excel application software. Some CBT also offer review quiz questions to gauge your understanding. CBT generally offer interactive, complete and comprehensive training. As it offers practice questions, you will be able to understand better and gain confidence in using the application. According to me, this is one of the best ways to learn Microsoft Excel.

    The concept of spread-sheeting has been around for hundreds of years. The process can be described as the ability to arrange numbers, characters and other objects into rows and columns. It is most common that spreadsheets only contain numbers and text. The software version of spread-sheeting basically takes the manual processes described above and puts them into an electronic format. Whilst the accounting industry which most commonly uses spreadsheets they can be used in any situation.

  • Excel for Mac