The Flexibility Of Microsoft Excel’s Text Alignment Options

The alignment section of the Home Tab of the Excel ribbon contains a number of options relating to the way in which your data is position within the cell. Perhaps the most familiar and the most frequently used buttons in this section are the three relating to the horizontal position your data: left, centre and right. However you’ll notice that when you click in the cells of an unformatted worksheet, none of these three icons is highlighted, which indicates that none of them is the default. The reason for this is that Excel treats data differently depending on the data type.

Creating And Using Custom Lists In Microsoft Excel

Excel’s AutoFill feature is based on the program’s ability to spot patterns in the data that you enter. For example, if you type “Week 1″ in a given cell, you can have Excel automatically fill in “Week 2″, “Week 3″, etc. simply by dragging the AutoFill handle. This is to be found in the bottom right of the cell. If the cursor moves over it, the cursor changes appearance to a plus sign (+). When it changes you simply click, hold, drag in any direction and Excel will spot the pattern and maintain it to generate automatic data entries.

Working With Hidden Sheets In Microsoft Excel 2007

A Microsoft Excel workbook is actually a container, a bit like a folder. Each Excel workbook can contain one or more worksheets and it is the worksheet that is the actual container of information. Worksheets are identified by a tab which bears the name of the sheet. Clicking a tab activates that particular sheet.

Aspects Of An Effective Microsoft Excel 2007 Training Course

Because Microsoft Excel 2007 has so many differences from Excel 2003, when you or your staff upgrade, you will almost certainly need training. But what kind of training will work best? Do you need an upgrade course that shows you the new features? Do you need a training course that compares Excel 2003 and 2007 and shows you how features have changed and evolved in the new version? Or do you need Excel training to take your skills to a new level, whatever the version?… Well, why not find a course that does all of the above?

Standalone Versus Embedded Microsoft Excel Charts

To create a chart in Microsoft Excel, begin by selecting the data that you want to plot including any headings. You then have the choice of creating either a stand-alone chart or an embedded chart. To create a stand-alone chart, right-click on one of your worksheet tabs and choose Insert. Next, click on the chart icon and click OK. Excel creates a chart using the default chart type.

Breaking The Code With Microsoft Excel 2007 Number Formats

Often, when you enter numbers into a spreadsheet, you need to ensure that the number format is consistent. For example, if these numbers are prices, you may want to display the currency symbol or you may simply want to specify that the number of decimals displayed is always two.

Fimding The Right Excel Training Courses

When you upgrade to Excel 2007, you and your staff may be in for quite a shock. The initial reaction of most people is: “where is everything?” Bearing this in mind, you may well find that a training course on Excel 2007 is a good investment. The training should first of all get you past the initial state of confusion caused by the fact that 2007 looks so different from previous versions. Then it should give you some guidance on the new features in Excel 2007 such as the enhancements to charting and graphics, functions and conditional formatting.

Microsof Excel 2007 Standalone And Embedded Charts

Charts provide us with quick and easy way of graphically illustrating trends within your data. One glance at a chart can make it very plain where there is a dip in sales figures, a surge in visitor numbers and a host of other trends in whatever data is being represented. In this article we will examine the various components of an Excel chart.

Declaration Of Array Variables In Excel VBA

An array is basically a variable which can hold multiple, related values. One of the most useful benefits of using arrays is that you can loop through the values within the array, performing actions which use, test or modify those values. Excel itself contains dozens of arrays which are referred to as collections. For example, the “Workbooks” collection is essentially an array containing a reference to all of the workbooks currently open in Excel.

Declaring Variables In Excel VBA

All programming languages allow the use of variables, named areas of memory in which you can store data required by your program for its execution. To create a variable, you declare it, in other words, you notify Visual Basic of your intention to use a variable of a given name to store a given type of data. The keyword “Dim” (short for “Dimension”) is used to declare variables; thus, to declare that you will be using a variable called “strDepartment” to hold string (text) data, you would write “Dim strDept as String”.

How To Create Column Charts in Microsoft Excel 2007

In this tutorial will look at creating and customising a column chart. The first step is to select the data that we want to plot, taking care to include any column and row headings. Row headings will be used as the names of the chart series and will be displayed in the legend. Column headings will be used as category labels. If the selection includes two sets of column headings, Excel will automatically recognize this and create two sets of headings on the category axis for us.

Microsoft Excel VBA Object Methods

When writing code in Microsoft Excel Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), you need to programmatically manipulate the objects inherent in Excel, such as worksheets, charts and pivot tables. In VBA, each of these objects has properties and methods which can be used to manipulate the object and make it do what you need it to. Properties are the attributes or characteristics that the object possesses, whereas methods are actions associated with the object. For example, a workbook has a “name” property and an “open” method.

Identifying The Main Elements Of A Microsoft Excel Chart

Charts provide us with quick and easy way of graphically illustrating trends within your data. One glance at a chart can make it very plain where there is a dip in sales figures, a surge in visitor numbers and a host of other trends in whatever data is being represented. In this article we will examine the various components of an Excel chart.