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Group Worksheets in Excel – Time Saving Excel Tip

This blog post looks at how to group worksheets in Excel, and a couple of reasons why you would want to do that.

This awesome little technique can save tons of time and seriously improve your productivity.

Why would you want to group worksheets?

By grouping worksheets you can make the same change to multiple worksheets at the same time. This can be a formatting change, a structural change such as inserting a row, or even a formula.

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Interactive Checklist in Excel

In this blog post, we look at creating an interactive checklist in Excel. The checklist will automatically mark the items in a list when they are checked.

To do this we will first need to insert checkboxes onto the spreadsheet, we then need to be able to highlight an item when it is completed.

In this tutorial, I am using the idea of a Christmas shopping list of names (shown below). Your checklist could however be for any list of tasks, inventory or products.

Interactive checklist in Excel
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Creating Multiple Dependent Drop Down Lists

Drop down lists can be created in Excel to assist with data entry and to prevent potential typos and misspellings. In this tutorial, you learn how to create multiple dependent drop down lists in Excel.

If you have lists with many entries, you may need to break the list into multiple dependent drop down lists. By creating a cascading set of lists, the entry in one is dependent upon the selection made in another.

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Type Special German Characters in Word/Excel

I have started to learn German as it has always been a goal of mine to learn the language. So I started to list some vocab in Excel to test myself.

I am using an English keyboard and the German language contains 4 special characters that do not appear on an English keyboard. You have the 3 umlaut accented characters ä, ö, ü and the ß (esszet).

There are two main ways to enter these letters into Word or Excel. One way is to insert the symbol, and the other is to use the number code associated with each character.

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Hide Formulas in Excel

Your spreadsheet formulas are always shown in the Formula Bar of Excel. This makes it easy to view and edit the formulas of a spreadsheet. How do you hide formulas in Excel?

If you do not want others to be able to view the formulas. Hide formulas in the Formula Bar by setting them to hidden and applying worksheet protection.

Before you apply worksheet protection, you need to change the property of the cells that contain the formulas to hidden.

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