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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3 Responses to “How-to create an elegant, fun & useful Excel Tracker – Step by Step Tutorial”
Hi Chandoo,
I am responsible for tracking when church reports are submitted on time or not and the variations from the due date for submission.
Here is the Scenario;
The due date for the submission of monthly reports is on the 5th of each month. and I would like to know how many reports have been submitted on time (i.e, those that have been submitted on or before the due date) I would also want to track those reports that have been submitted after the due date has passed.
How can I create such a tracker?
Hi Chandoo,
I am a member of your excel school.
I was trying to create SOP Tracker I follow all your steps but I keep this error below.
The list source must be a delimited list, or a reference to a single row or cell.
I try looking on YouTube for answer but no luck.
can you help on this?
thanks
Carl.
Dear Mr. Chando,
Rakesh, I'm working in a private company in the UAE. Recently, I'm struggling to get more details about the staff sick, annual, unpaid, and leaves. I would like to get a tracker in excel. Could you please help me in this situation?
I also watching your videos in YouTube. i hope you can help me on this situation.