Excel 2007
Apply or remove cell borders
Exist several ways to apply or remove cell borders, you can choose anyone:
Custom cell format
Excel includes a variety of built-in formats that cover general, numeric, currency, percentage, exponential,
date, time, and custom numeric formats. You can also design your own custom formats based on one of the
built-in formats.
How to hide/display comment indicators
When a comment has been inserted in a cell, the little red triangle is being displayed to indicate a comment
in a cell. This tip is how to hide/display this indicator.
Using advanced filtering
In addition to manual data filtering Excel enables fully automated filtering based on data from the
specified range of cells. Before you can use the advanced filtering feature, you must set up a criteria
range. A criteria range is a designated range on a worksheet that conforms to certain requirements.
View spreadsheets side by side
Sometimes it is necessary to compare two Excel worksheets. E.g., compare balance sheets for different
periods of time. You can do it by comparing worksheets side by side in two automatically linked windows.
Grouping and ungrouping sheets
Sheets can be grouped (connected) to facilitate creating or formatting two or more identical sheets. For
example, you can create one sheet and copy it to two other sheets, or you can group three blank sheets and
enter and format the content once-no subsequent copying required.
Modify cell data
You can edit data in cells this in several ways:
Basic Formula operators
There are several operators that could be used in formulas.
Entering decimal points automatically
If you need to enter lots of numbers with a fixed number of decimal places, Excel has a useful tool:
How to avoid misleading numbers
Applying a number format to a cell doesn't change the value, but only how the value appears in the
worksheet. Formatting can play a joke with you, e.g., sum of values seems incorrect because Excel displays a
limited number of decimal places and their sum is not equal to the real sum.