Microsoft Excel

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Microsoft Excel is a commercial spreadsheet application written and distributed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications. It is a widely used spreadsheet for these platforms. Excel forms part of Microsoft Office.

Tips

  • If you save all or part of a workbook as web page, the files folder it create will have image versions of your charts.
  • You can hide the ribbon/toolbar by:
    1. Double click on one of the ribbon tabs - such as Home, Insert, or Page Layout OR
    2. Press the Ctrl+F1 keys on the keyboard.
  • You can convert multiple text URLs to active URLs in a column next to it using the formula "=HYPERLINK(A1)"[1]
  • Ctrl+~ shows all the formulas on the current worksheet
  • F2 shows the formula for the cell you are on
    • F2 followed by F9 converts a formula to a value. Then press Enter to replace the formula with the value or Esc to keep the formula.

Wiki converter

The Copy and Paste Excel-to-Wiki Converter allows you to copy excel information to wiki text table that can be added to Saintapedia. It's features includes:

  • format first row as header
  • format first column as header
  • use class="wikitable"
  • collapsible
  • sortable
  • collapsed
  • autocollapse

There is a simpler tool hosted by the Washington University in St. Louis.

Exporting Graphs as Images

If you save an excel file with graphs as an html file, it will create a sub-folder that includes the graphs as gif and png image files.

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Template:Microsoft Office