Ever wanted to show your workbook to someone and felt that you had less screen real estate? This tip will help you get more out of your workbook.
So how to get 50% more space for your workbooks?
Simple, just follow these steps.
- Go to View ribbon
- Uncheck “Formula Bar” and “Headings”. This will hide both formula bar and column / row headings from screen.
- Now press CTRL+F1. This will toggle ribbon to outline view.
- Bingo, you suddenly have 50% more space to show your spreadsheets.
Want even more space? Go Full Screen
In Excel 2010 or prior, activate Full Screen mode from View ribbon.
In Excel 2013 or above, use Auto hide ribbon option to mimic full screen behavior.
So there you go, enjoy expanded excel estate.
How do you display workbooks to colleagues?
I use above technique in all my videos / online classes to showcase the workbooks.
What about you? How do you display your workbooks in a meeting / presentation? Share your tips in the comment section.
Also read:
- Show only few rows & columns in your reports
- 10 Tips to make better & boss proof workbooks
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11 Responses to “Fix Incorrect Percentages with this Paste-Special Trick”
I've just taught yesterday to a colleague of mine how to convert amounts in local currency into another by pasting special the ROE.
great thing to know !!!
Chandoo - this is such a great trick and helps save time. If you don't use this shortcut, you have to take can create a formula where =(ref cell /100), copy that all the way down, covert it to a percentage and then copy/paste values to the original column. This does it all much faster. Nice job!
I was just asking peers yesterday if anyone know if an easy way to do this, I've been editing each cell and adding a % manually vs setting the cell to Percentage for months and just finally reached my wits end. What perfect timing! Thanks, great tip!
If it's just appearance you care about, another alternative is to use this custom number format:
0"%"
By adding the percent sign in quotes, it gets treated as text and won't do what you warned about here: "You can not just format the cells to % format either, excel shows 23 as 2300% then."
Dear Jon S. You are the reason I love the internet. 3 year old comments making my life easier.
Thank you.
Here is a quicker protocol.
Enter 10000% into the extra cell, copy this cell, select the range you need to convert to percentages, and use paste special > divide. Since the Paste > All option is selected, it not only divides by 10000% (i.e. 100), it also applies the % format to the cells being pasted on.
@Martin: That is another very good use of Divide / Multiply operations.
@Tony, @Jody: Thank you 🙂
@Jon S: Good one...
@Jon... now why didnt I think of that.. Excellent
Thank You so much. it is really helped me.
Big help...Thanks
Thanks. That really saved me a lot of time!
Is Show Formulas is turned on in the Formula Ribbon, it will stay in decimal form until that is turned off. Drove me batty for an hour until I just figured it out.