Category: Office 2010

Excel Cell Naming Tips

It doesn’t take most regular Excel users very long to get used to the alphanumeric referencing system for cells such A4, C8, BA27 etc, and this is fine when constructing fairly small and simple spreadsheets. However once workbooks and their worksheets become larger than just a few cells, trying to remember which number was in […]

Excel Cell References Explained

Microsoft Excel has two types of cell reference – Absolute and Relative, and an understanding of how these references differ and work can help the spreadsheet designer to save vast amounts time when compiling their spreadsheet, especially when they are copying formulae or worksheets around a workbook. To best describe the difference between the two […]

Using Accented Characters In Excel

Adding accented characters into your Excel workbook is commonly achieved by using the Insert –> Symbol menu options to select the character you want, however while this is fine for inserting the odd symbol every now and again, if you have to enter lots of different symbols then things can become very tedious indeed. Fortunately Microsoft have provided a […]

Handling Dates In Excel

Because the standard Gregorian calendar used by the majority of the world doesn’t lend itself to date calculations (differing length months, and leap years to name but two examples), Microsoft have devised a special system for dates within Excel which makes it easy to incorporate calculations based on dates into your spreadsheets and Excel based […]