Making your workbooks, charts, dashboards & presentations beautiful is a time consuming process. It is a mix of art & craft. Naturally, we spend hours polishing that important slideshow or visualization. But do you know about simple features in Excel that can save you a lot of time and help you create gorgeous output?
Formatting faster with paste special & double click
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More awesome & productive ways to format your reports
Formatting takes a major chunk of your Excel time. So why not pickup few shortcuts & techniques and become awesome? Check out below tips:
- Formatting shortcuts for you
- 8 tips to make you a formatting pro
- Format multiple sheets in one go with grouping feature
- Sexy on spreadsheet, ugly on printout? – tips for formatting printouts – podcast
- 10 tips to make boss-proof spreadsheets
Share your formatting routine…
Do you have a process / tip for formatting faster? Please share it in the comments. Celebrate Awesome August by sharing your knowledge. I am waiting to learn from you… go!
3 Responses to “CP049: Don’t do data dumps!!!”
Your title got me nervous because I'm all about data dumps, but not for attaching graphics to data dumps. My reason for using data dumps is when someone is trying to do analysis and their starting point is a report that's formatted in a way for a human to read. I instruct them to stop with the report and go get a data dump: just rows and columns and rows and columns.
Agreed, nearly all of my reports start with 100+ lines of simple table data.
That way you can build your functionality around pulling information from that tabled information.
Yes yes!