Showing posts with label Excel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Excel. Show all posts

How to Create and Use Three-Dimensional Spreadsheets In Excel 2010

For the most part, most people think of a spreadsheet as a two dimensional object, because there are rows and columns, and that’s pretty much it; but spreadsheets can also be created that have a third dimension by using tabs, like this:
Initial Example

Manually Format Spreadsheets in Excel 2010

One the downsides to having all kinds of templates and style sheets in MS Excel is that you pretty much get locked in to creating sheets that look like everyone else’s; which doesn’t do much for creativity or inspirational ideas. This is why it’s a good idea to learn how to use Excels formatting tools.
To begin, start by creating a table that has some rows and tables, like this:
Unformatted Sheet
Then, highlight the whole thing…
Hightlight Data
Next, click on it with your right mouse button, to get this popup men:

How to Use Live External Web Data in Excel 2010

Oftentimes, users of Excel find they’d like to be able to import data from an external source such as a web page, this is particularly true of web sites that list stock information. What many people don’t know is that Excel does have a facility for doing just this.
To see how it works, open Excel to a new blank document, then click somewhere in your sheet to make it your current document, then click on the Data tab on the main ribbon
From Web Icon