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What are the secret tips or tricks that can make anyone an Excel expert?

Either accountants or data entry agents in order to deal with tons of big data, They can’t ignore the important role Excel plays in daily work. However, both for beginners and advanced users, there are many secret tips to be excel expert, could you expound some?

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Question added by Ghada Eweda , Medical sales hospital representative , Pfizer pharmaceutical Plc.
Date Posted: 2016/06/04
Abdul Hadi Mohammed
by Abdul Hadi Mohammed , Lead Planning Engineer - Acting , Arkad Engineering & Construction Company

Tips or Tricks that can make anyone an Excel Expert are:-

  1. Remember, A person can be identified as a good user in excel if he/she uses the mouse as less as possible i.e. working through keyboard shortcuts. To excel in shortcuts, just press Alt key and all the shortcut letters are highlighted in the Ribbon. so just keep on practising till you get perfect in it.
  2. Learn new formulas and logical functions in your workbooks by pressing on help button.
  3. Browse the internet for videos on Excel and simultanously practise them.
  4. Excellsfun is a very good youtube channel to practise them. Click on this link Excellsfun to go the channel.

"Practise makes man perfect", so keep on practising.

Christy Llanos
by Christy Llanos , Accountant/Administrator , AlphaTech FZCO

There are no secret tips when it comes to software nowadays. I had my knowledge on excel when I had my first job and eventually got better on the next succeeding jobs. There are many search engines where you could find how to navigate your way on this software especially the formula and shortcuts where it makes easier and faster. Its not much difference with the google spreadsheets, the latter just automatically saves what you have encoded.

Finally, what matters here is the application of whatever you have learned consistently. If its not used, it remains stagnant.

Barkat Ali
by Barkat Ali , Accountant , Abdullah Bin Ahmed Bin Mohd Al Muzahmi Trading

Perform these tricks and you will be expert in excel.

 

1. Speed Up Input

2. One Click to Select All

3. Navigate Excel Like a Pro

4. Easily Delete Blank Spaces

5.Move Data Speedily

6. Add More Than One Column Or Row At a Time

7. Make A New Shortcut Menu

8. Open More Than One File At a Time

9. Making Charts

10. Vlookup

But these all Tricks will need practice........everything depends on practice

danish shafiq
by danish shafiq , Accountant , Anayat Fan

learn all the shortcut keys and their uses also helps us becoming expert in excel.

Hazim Hassan, CMA, CIFR
by Hazim Hassan, CMA, CIFR , Finance Manager , Al-ghanim & Debbas Gen. Trd. Co

macros are the most powerful in excel.

 

Dina ibrahim
by Dina ibrahim , Representative , Telesales

don't believe in trick so i will provide some advices that helped me doing things faster 

using the Ctrl + A shortcut, but  only one click of the corner button, as shown in the screenshot below, all data will be selected in seconds.When creating address list, you may need a diagonal link in the first cell to separate different  rows and columns Home->Font-> Borders can change different borders for a cell, and even add different colors. However, if you click More Borders, you will get more surprises, like a diagonal line. Click it and save :) Some default data will be blank, for various reasons. If you need to delete these to maintain accuracy, especially when calculating the average value, the speedy way is to filter out all blank cells and delete them with one click. Choose the column you want to filter, go to Data->Filter, after the downward button shows, undo Select All and then pick up the last option, Blanks. All blank cells will show immediately. Go back to Home and click Delete directly, all of them will be removed.

Tip n. 1: a full knowledge of used formulas is a must.

Tip n. 2: Know how to design the layout of the data entry in a way to be easily read, tracked and sorted.

Tip n. 3: desigining and using macros can save lot of time.

Tip n. 4: Knowing all the shortcuts in Excel.

manseer muhammed ali
by manseer muhammed ali , Accountant General , Royal Lighting L.L.C & Royal Furnishing LLC

1. One Click to Select All

2. Open Excel Files in Bulk

3. Shift Between Different Excel Files

4. Create a New Shortcut Menu

5. Add More Than One New Row or Column

 

Kevin Thomas
by Kevin Thomas , Senior Associate , Cuemath

-experience

-shortkeys

-formatted and easy reading reports

Ghada Eweda
by Ghada Eweda , Medical sales hospital representative , Pfizer pharmaceutical Plc.

Thanks you for all excel's professionals . 

Completely agree on answers.

Really You amazed me with your wonderful answers. 

Just i wanna you to reveal your hidden expertise to begineers on Microsoft excel!

Regards  emoji

Sajedul Talukder
by Sajedul Talukder , Financial Management Analyst , University Grants Commission

Use of pivote columns, $ sign in formulas, adding sheets, linking sheets and files, using charts etc

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