Linked Workbooks

Astute Excel: Linked Workbooks

Presented by David H. Ringstrom, CPA

If you’d like to learn how to benefit from Excel’s workbook links, you’ll want to take this course presented by Excel expert David Ringstrom, CPA. David outlines how to create workbook links and explains their pros and cons. Workbook links allow you to connect one Excel spreadsheet to other spreadsheets, Word documents, databases, and even web pages. In addition, he shows you how to dramatically improve the integrity of linked workbooks, copy links across rows or down columns, repair broken links, and more.

Topics Covered:

• Using a custom number format to hide zero amounts within a specific area of a spreadsheet.

• Getting familiar with Excel’s grid of rows and columns.

• Preventing errors from the start by choosing from thousands of free Excel spreadsheet templates.

• Learning the nuances of copying formulas within Excel spreadsheets.

• Saving paper and eliminating frustration by monitoring the Print Scale setting.

• Handling situations where numbers are presented as # signs on-screen and in Print Preview.

• Discerning the nuance of entering text into worksheet cells.

• Surfacing hidden Excel commands instantly by way of the Tell Me feature in Excel 2016.

• Copying formulas efficiently down one or more columns at the same time.

• Understanding Excel’s Freeze Panes feature.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify how to skip confusing menus by way of time-saving mouse tricks and keyboard shortcuts.

• Recall some basic data analysis techniques.

• Describe Excel’s Freeze Panes feature.