Well, folks, I’ve been off the blogging grid for a while. Not going to make any excuses about this. But plan to get back on the blogging horse again…me thinks I feel a joke about “blogging a dead horse” coming on…but I shall restrain myself.
OK, so what are tables in Excel and why should you use them? Today I’m just going to give you the first one…totally for cosmetic reasons…
- If you are like most Excel users these days you get a lorryload of data as a download and then you have to do various things with it to get your final result. The data is usually in a tabular form..
- Tidy up your list i.e. one heading in one cell, no blank rows, no blank columns
- Click anywhere in your list and press Ctrl and T (or Insert – Table)
- Hey presto, your list looks as if you have spent (relatively) happy hours colouring alternate rows..
- So you know the way you saw a colleague with this and thought how painstakingly and careful they were…sorry to disappoint you…they weren’t. They just applied a table.
Tables are NOT hard work
- So you know the way you saw a colleague with this and thought how painstakingly and careful they were…sorry to disappoint you…they weren’t. They just applied a table.
- When you have done this…just see how easily you can now filter and how if you scroll down to the bottom…the headings stay at the sop…yeah, I’m impressed too…. 🙂
- So far so good. If you want to try this out for yourself….check out the dummy data file below (thanks..www.generatedata.com – great site if you want to generate dummy data)
Download this file to practise….tables_dummy_data
As always if you have any comments/suggestions feel free to add them…