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.

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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.

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.................

Save Workspace

One can open a group of workbooks in a single step by creating a workspace file.

A workspace file saves information about all open workbooks, such as their locations, window sizes, and screen positions. When you open a workspace file by using the Open
command (File menu), Microsoft Excel opens each workbook saved in the workspace.

The workspace file does not contain the workbooks themselves, and you must continue to
save changes you make to the individual workbooks.

1. Open the workbooks you want to open as a group.
2. Size and position the workbook windows as you want them to appear
the next
time you use the workbooks.
3. On the View tab, click Save Workspace.
4. In the File name box, enter a name for the workspace file.

The workspace file has an extension (*.xlw)

This feature is really helpful while working with multiple Workbooks located in different folders. You can open the multiple files by just opening one file.....

Isn't this sounds good ? If yes, try now.......

Faster access to worksheets

When working with large workbooks in which all of the worksheet tabs are not visible, your users may get frustrated with scrolling to find the sheet they need. Here's a really quick tip to pass on. Right-click on any of the tab-scrolling buttons (to the left of the sheet tabs) and a shortcut menu will pop up. You can then select the tab you want.

Here is an example :