Worksheet Properties via a Menu
Hidden away, well actually it’s just found on the Developer Tab, in Excel 2007 and 2010 is a Properties Button.
The properties Button is generally used for configuring Active X controls, where all the parameters of the control can be set.
One other useful feature of the Properties Button is that it directly accesses several features of a Worksheets properties.
Most of these properties are usually only accessed via VBA code.
Where’s the Developers Tab
The developers Tab is enabled by going to the Excel Options menu (next to the Exit Excel button),
On the Popular Tab, select Enable Developer Tab on the Ribbon
Use
To use these functions select a cell on a worksheet and press the Properties Button.
A Properties window will be shown, showing the following properties:
Display Page Breaks
Displays Page Breaks if set to True;
Default is False, Don’t display page breaks
Display Right to Left
Enable Right to Left Page Layout if set to True. This will put Column A on the Right Hand side of the screen and Columns B… will then be to the left of Column A.
Default is False
Enable Autofilter
Enables or Disables the AutoFilter arrows on a protected worksheet
Default is False (Arrows are disabled)
Enable Calculation
Totally disables calculation of the current sheet
Using F9 does not force calculation.
Default is False, Calculation is enabled
Enable Format Conditions Calculation
When set to True (default), evaluation of conditional formats will will occur automatically as needed.
When set to False, conditional formats will not be re-evaluated. Any previously applied conditional formatting will still be visible, but it will not update as cell values are changed.
The purpose of this flag is to allow VBA programmers to configure a rule completely before evaluating it. This is particularly useful when condition is applied over a large range as performance can be slow in these cases.
Enable Outlining
Enables outlining symbols on a protected worksheet
Default is False, Outline symbols disabled
Enable PivotTable
This enables PivotTable controls on a protected worksheet
Default is False, PivotTable controls are disabled
Enable Selection
Show and Enable the selection status of cells
Value Status
0 No Restrictions
1 Locked Cells
-4142 No Selection
These are only relevant when the Page is Locked
Name
Shows and allows you to rename the current Worksheet
Default is the current Worksheets Name
Scroll Area
Allows the definition of a Scroll Area where the user cannot move out of
Eg: Enter D10:M40 to restrict user interaction to this area
Default is Blank – Scroll area not set
Standard Width
Shows and allows you to set the default column Width in Standard Character Widths
Default is 8.43
This value represents the number of characters that can be displayed in a cell that is formatted with the standard font (standard font: The default text font for worksheets. The standard font determines the default font for the Normal cell style.).
Visible
Show or set the current sheets visibility status
Value Status
-1 Visible
0 Hidden
2 Very Hidden
Obviously once a sheet is Hidden or Very hidden it isn’t available to select to enable the properties menu and so this can only be used to hide but not unhide Worksheets.
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8 Responses to “Top 5 keyboard shortcuts for Excel Charts”
As far as I remember (checked, again, 2 minutes ago) in my "Excel 2013" in order to select various chart elements I need to use the Arrow keys and not the TAB key.
Practically, the TAB key does nothing (within a Chart).
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Michael (Micky) Avidan
Thanks for pointing this out. This is how I remember it too, but when I was recording the video yesterday, only TAB key worked. MS must have changed the keys in Excel 2016. I have edited the post to include both keys.
The key navigation on charts is different in 2016.
TAB cycles through a layer of objects (SHIFT+TAB cycles backwards)
ENTER move down a layer
ESC moves up a layer
So on a column chart with title/legend/data labels if you select the plotarea the TAB will go through Title > Legend > Plotarea.
ENTER at plotarea will then select Vertical axis. Tab will take you through
Horizontal axis > gridlines > Series > Horizontal Axis.
ENTER with series selected will then allow you to TAB through individual data points and data labels.
If you ENTER on datalabels you can TAB through each data label.
ALT + F1 : to create default chart
ALT+E S T = CTRL + ALT + V, T : I find that easier to remember
I second what Michael already said about TAB and arrow keys. I can't help but think if this is related to the "," or ";" as separator. I prefer to use the chart tools - layout- drop down box, anyway.
Got to be F11 for instant charting. Highlight your data , hit F11 and voila! ?
Ctrl+1 is the most important chart shortcut. In fact, it works for any Excel object: whatever is selected, Ctrl+1 opens the task pane or dialog to format that object.
Somewhere along the line, maybe when Excel 2016 came out, the arrow keys stopped working to cycle through the elements of a chart. But what works is holding Ctrl while clicking the arrow keys. I haven't gotten used to the Tab and other keys, but as long as Ctrl+Arrow works, I'm good.
And F4 used to be so helpful when formatting a lot of charts. But since Excel 2007 came out, it has been mostly useless. It used to remember a whole set of changes at once, so I get that the newer modeless dialogs make that impractical. But now it only seems to work with formatting of lines and borders, and maybe fills. I find myself writing a lot of VBA one-liners in the Immediate Window to handle these tedious formatting tasks.
after clicking on a chart, is there a shortcut key to copy it?
Thank you for the Alt E S T - tip. This is more than a time saver. Because of dynamic charts or de-activated external references to data when you make the charts, you often have empty charts that are otherwise impossible to format. So this shortcut helps adressing that. I will work with it more and see if there remain some obstacles.