Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Hiding Formulas

There are times when you don't want the user to know the logic of the formulas or you want to maintain the confidentiality of formulas.

In this case, you want to hide the formulas from the users and display value only.

Follow the below steps to hide the formulas displayed in cell or Formula Bar.

1) Select the cells containing the formulas and need protection.
2) Right click ----> Format Cells.
3) Go to Protection Tab
4) Select LOCKED and HIDDEN CheckBox. (Locked check box restricts editing of cell)
5) Click OK
6) Go to Review tab
7) Click on "Protect Sheet" button
8) Apply password if required. ( Not mandatory)
9) Click OK.

To show the formulas again, Just use UNPROTECT SHEET button from Review Tab...
Locking cells or hiding formulas has no effect until you protect the worksheet.

Hope it helps....Share with your colleagues.

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Expand menus in excel 2003

In a new installation of Microsoft Excel 2003 all menus are abbreviated. To see a full menu requires that you either click the expand button at the bottom of the menu or wait about 3 seconds for it to automatically expand. To put it nicely, this drives me batty.

It’s a simple thing to show full menus in Excel 2003. There are several ways to make this change, but I’ll show the easiest method for me.

  1. Click the Tools menu OR right-click the toolbar
  2. Select Customize from the pop-up menu
  3. Select the Options tab in the Customize box
  4. Under Personalized Menus and Toolbars, click Always show full menus
  5. Click Close

Full menus always look the same, which makes it easier to find what you’re looking for and is a much better option for new users.

Friday, June 25, 2010

MS office Application Shortcuts

To open any office application , you may use Run command in start menu.

Go to Start , Select RUN

and type

1) excel to open MS Excel
2) winword to open MS Word
3) msaccess to open MS Access
4) outlook to open MS Outlook
5) powerpnt to open MS Powerpoint

Amazing ??

Start using now.................