It doesn’t take long for what was a simple spreadsheet to grow and become a monstrous maze of data. These become increasingly difficult to navigate and work with, making the simplest tasks take an unnecessary amount of time.

While it’s no substitute to proper Excel Training, Microsoft included several handy shortcuts and little-used functions that once used become essential for future spreadsheet set up, manipulation and navigation.

Macros

If you find that you are spending most of your time performing the same monotonous spreadsheet tasks, such as copying data from one place to another, you need to look into is setting up your own macros.

Name your Macro and set its shortcut once you have pressed the 'Record Macro' button.

Built using VBA (Visual Basic for Applications), a Microsoft built event-driven programming language; macros allow the user to create a set of instructions which it can complete within the parameters you set. This means that you can set them up to automatically perform tasks such as cell formatting, cell selection, adding or removing rows or columns or even adding a date into your spreadsheet. Read the rest of “Time saving tips for Excel”