Description
Learn from Excel expert David Ringstrom, CPA, valuable techniques that can be used to verify the integrity of even the most complicated Excel spreadsheets. In this comprehensive course, David shows you how to use Excel’s formula auditing and error-checking tools, identify duplicates in a list, monitor the ramifications of even minor changes made to your workbooks, use the Evaluate Formula feature, and much more.
Topics Covered:
- Identifying duplicates in a list using Conditional Formatting.
- Selecting all formulas within a worksheet with just two mouse clicks.
- Adding a macro to Excel that adds the ability to display any formula in a cell comment.
- Exploring options for recovering lost passwords for Excel spreadsheets.
- Protecting sensitive information by marking key worksheets as VeryHidden.
- Transforming cell references into range names by way of the Apply Range Names to Formulas command.
- Differentiating between manual and automatic calculation modes in Excel, and when Excel may default into manual calculation mode.
- Understanding the purpose and nuances of Excel’s Personal Macro Workbook.
- Bringing Excel’s green error-checking prompts under control by managing the underlying rules.
- Learning the nuances of circular references in Excel.
- Adding a macro to Excel that adds the ability to display any formula in a cell comment.
Learning Objectives:
- Recall the location of the menu command that allows you to determine categorically if a workbook contains links or not.
- Define how to transform cell references into range names. State the location of the Enable Iterative Calculations setting within the Excel Options dialog box.
- Implement the Watch Window to monitor the ramifications of even minor changes to your workbooks.
