We spend a lot of time in Excel navigating between various ribbon tabs and clicking buttons. Wouldn’t it be better if you can combine all the frequently used features in to one ribbon? Something like this:
Watch below video to learn how to create, edit & share custom ribbons in Excel.
Read companion article on how to create custom ribbons in Excel to know more.
Create custom ribbons in Excel to save time – how to video
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- Switch between ribbon tabs with scroll button on your mouse
- Adding your own macros to Excel ribbon
- CP024 – Customize Excel to boost your productivity
- 25 productivity tips & tricks for analysts
Do you use custom ribbons? Share your ribbon screenshots in the comments
My top 3 customizations when it comes to Excel are,
- Add frequently used features to Quick Access Toolbar (QAT)
- Pin frequent locations to File menu
- Create personal macros and add them to ribbon (or QAT)
What about you? Do you use custom ribbons? If so, please share a screenshot of your ribbon in the comments. To share your ribbon screenshot, follow below steps:
- Open Excel and activate your custom ribbon
- Press Print Screen
- Open MS Paint (or any other image editor) and press CTRL+V to paste the screenshot
- Crop it so only your ribbon is showing
- Save the file as myribbon.png (or any other name with .PNG extension)
- Upload the image to a free image hosting service like imgur or tinypic or flickr
- Post the URL in the comments for this post, along with what a brief explanation of your ribbon does.
6 Responses to “A quick personal update”
Thank you for the personal update. It was quite encouraging and a breath of fresh air in my Inbox. Take care and stay safe.
David
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Virus obstructs lungs with thick mucus that solidifies.
Consume lot hot liquids like tea, soup, and sip of hot liquid every 20 min
Gargle w antiseptic of lemon, vinegar, & hot water daily
It attaches to hair/clothes detergent kills it, when come from st go straight shower
Hang dirty clothes in sunlight/cold overnight or wash immediately.
Wash metal surfaces as it can live on them 9 days
Do not touch hand rails
Do not smoke
Wash hands foaming 20 sec every 20 min
Eat fruit/veg and up zinc levels.
Animals do not spread it
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Would love help with my database mgt in excel.
Thanks for being thoughtful of us.
BTW How do you track your expenses/income in excel? Can you share the worksheet please.
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Thanks for the update and happy to know that you and family are doing good. A 21 day lockdown has now been announced in India (I live around Kolkata) so it's uncertain times ahead. I check up on your wonderful articles often and will do so even more regularly now. Stay safe and God bless.
Hi from Argentina, I follow you for a lot of years now. We here are in a quarantine for 2 or 3 weeks, because the pandemia.
Excel is also my passion and I came here looking for a Num2Words formula, but in spanish. If anyone have it, please let me know.
Best regards.
Pablo Molina
La Rioja - Argentina
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