Astute Excel: Taming Large Spreadsheets
Presented by David H. Ringstrom, CPA
Are you tired of trying to manage your large Excel spreadsheets? In this comprehensive presentation, Excel expert David Ringstrom, CPA, demonstrates a number of ways you can successfully tame cumbersome spreadsheets. His helpful tips enable you to save time, improve the integrity of large workbooks, avoid repetitive tasks, and much more.
Topics Covered:
- Comparing the risks and benefits of 64-bit versus 32-bit Microsoft Excel.
- Restoring Full Screen View in Excel 2013 and later as well as enabling a keyboard shortcut for this feature.
- Navigating large workbooks with ease by way of a hidden menu as well as keyboard shortcuts.
- Learning how to use a single line of programming code to unhide all worksheets within a workbook.
- Understanding Excel’s Freeze Panes feature.
- Using the Group command to interactively hide/unhide columns (and/or rows) within Excel worksheets.
- Utilizing the Split Worksheet feature properly to lock certain rows at the bottom of the Excel window.
- Discovering resources for making unwieldly spreadsheets calculate faster.
- Exploring how the INDIRECT worksheet function can automate pulling values from a group of individual worksheets.
- Hiding multiple worksheets within a workbook at once.
- Navigating purposefully through worksheets by way of clickable hyperlinks.
Learning Objectives:
- State how the INDIRECT worksheet function simplifies creating summary worksheets.
- Define how to use the Watch Window feature to monitor and navigate to key worksheet cells.
- Demonstrate your knowledge of Excel’s Freeze Panes feature.