Review in Excel 365 2016 2010 2007 2003

Useful Excel features to work with a lot of data

If you have a lot of data, manual editing and formatting of cells isn’t an option any more. However, Excel provides you many group operations that make those manipulations quick and easy.

Quick way to select all cells

This tip will help you to select all cells in the worksheet in one click.

Print comments

If your worksheet contains comments, you can print them as they appear on the sheet or at the end of the sheet.

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.

Viewing a worksheet in multiple windows

Sometimes, you may want to view two different parts of a worksheet simultaneously - perhaps to make it easier to reference a distant cell in a formula. Or you may want to examine more than one sheet in the same workbook simultaneously.

Adding watermarks to workbook

This tip describes how to add watermark text or picture to your workbook.

Formatting comments

Like a common text, any comments can be formatted: Excel represents many allows you to customize most aspects of its appearance, including color, border, and margins.

Changing a comment shape

Normally, cell comments are rectangular, but you can give a cell comment any shape you want:

How to select all the embedded charts on the worksheet

If you need to select all objects embedded into the worksheet, e.g. select all charts to adjust their size, press Ctrl+G and click the Special button or use Ctrl to select objects individually.

Making a spreadsheet very hidden

Using the Hide command you can hide the data and formulas from "inquisitive minds". But some of them still can use Unhide command. Nevertheless you can completely hide Excel spreadsheet so that it will be needed some VBA programming to unhide it.