Daily Archives: March 6, 1998

No more sheets

In the last tip, we showed you how to insert a new worksheet between two existing sheets. In that tip, we mentioned that the Excel default is 16 sheets to a workbook. If a given workbook needs only one or … Continue reading

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In roman times

Now that a better way of writing numbers has been around for a thousand years or so, wouldn’t you think people would stop using Roman numerals? They haven’t, though. You still run across them in copyright dates and other places … Continue reading

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Getting in shape

AutoShapes: If you haven’t experimented with this handy feature in Excel, now is the time to see how it works. Let’s imagine that you’ve just finished a worksheet that contains a chart. You can add labels to the chart to … Continue reading

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Showing up the boss, a hypothetical story

Your boss, who wouldn’t know a computer if it fell ten stories and crashed right next to him, narrowly missing killing him (you know this because you’ve tested it), is nonetheless remarkably free with his Excel advice. In fact, just … Continue reading

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