Taming Large Spreadsheets (Video) (Course Id 2660)

In this presentation, author and Excel expert David H. Ringstrom, CPA, will guide participants through various techniques to enhance their efficiency and productivity in Excel. Topics covered include viewing a workbook on two monitors for improved multitasking, viewing two worksheets on one monitor for easy comparison and utilizing Zoom to Selection for focused analysis. You'll also learn how to maximize screen real estate with the buried Full Screen mode, utilizing the Split feature for simultaneous viewing and editing two or more areas of a worksheet. Other techniques include efficiently grouping and ungrouping rows and columns, leveraging the Watch Window for monitoring key data, using hyperlinks as a navigation aid for quick access to relevant information, and utilizing the Navigation task pane in Excel for Microsoft 365 for streamlined navigation and organization.

David is the author of “Microsoft Excel 365 for Dummies”, “Exploring Microsoft Excel’s Hidden Treasures”, and has written or co-authored six other books. He demonstrates every technique at least twice: first, on a PowerPoint slide with numbered steps, and second, in the subscription-based Excel for Microsoft 365. David draws your attention to any differences in Excel 2021, 2019 or 2016 during the presentation and in his detailed handouts. The handouts include an Excel workbook with most of the examples he uses during his demonstrations.

Excel for Microsoft 365 is a subscription-based product that receives periodic feature updates. Conversely, perpetually licensed versions have year numbers in their names and do not receive any feature updates.

Course Learning Objectives

• State which feature in Excel allows you to combine two or more columns together.
• State which version(s) of Excel offer the ability to extract data from PDF files by way of Power Query.
• State the functionality that the Flash Fill feature offers.