Apply Password Protection to an Excel File – Instructions

Apply Password Protection to an Excel File - Instructions: A picture of a user adding a password for opening the Excel file to a workbook.
Apply Password Protection to an Excel File: Overview             When you apply password protection to an Excel file, you prevent people from opening it without knowing the required password. After password protection is enabled on a file, no one can open it without the password. Therefore, password-protecting files poses some risk. This is because if
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Record a Macro in Excel – Instructions and Video Lesson

Record a Macro in Excel - Instructions and Video Lesson: A picture of the “Record Macro” dialog box in Excel.
Record a Macro in Excel: Overview              You can easily record a macro in Excel. Macros are small programs that record your actions as you perform a task in Excel. The actions are then saved as a Visual Basic Module, which is a type of program. When you run the macro later, it repeats your
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Outline Excel Data in Microsoft Excel – Instructions

Outline Excel Data in Microsoft Excel - Instructions: A picture of an Excel worksheet with an outline applied.
Outline Excel Data in Microsoft Excel: Overview             You can outline Excel data to add an organizational quality to a long or wide worksheet. When you outline Excel data, you group worksheet data into different levels based on column and row headings. Lower level data is associated with the headings in the rows or columns.
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Split Panes in Excel – Instructions and Video Lesson

Split Panes in Excel - Instructions and Video Lesson: A picture of a large Excel workbook that is horizontally split into two separate panes.
Split Panes in Excel: Overview             To split panes in Excel when viewing a large worksheet, use the “Split” command in Excel. This command lets you split the Excel worksheet into different panes. Each pane contains its own horizontal and vertical scroll bars. Therefore, you can scroll each pane separately to view information from different
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Change the Chart Type in Excel – Instructions

Change the Chart Type in Excel - Instructions: A picture of a user changing the chart type of a selected chart in Excel.
Change the Chart Type in Excel: Overview             After creating a chart, you can change the chart type in Excel. Alternatively, you can also choose a different sub-type of the same general chart type you first selected. Either way, note that if you change the chart type, you may lose custom formatting you have applied
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Remove Cell Formatting in Excel – Instructions

Remove Cell Formatting in Excel - Instructions: A picture of a user clearing cell formatting from selected cells in an Excel workbook.
Remove Cell Formatting in Excel: Overview             You can remove cell formatting in Excel to clear all the currently applied cell formatting. Removing cell formatting is also called clearing cell formatting. Doing this lets you remove cell formatting that causes problems from selected cells. When you remove cell formatting in Excel, it does not affect
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Insert Slicers and Delete Slicers in Excel- Instructions

Insert Slicers and Delete Slicers in Excel: A picture of a slicer applied to a PivotTable in Excel.
Insert Slicers and Delete Slicers in Excel: Overview             You can easily insert slicers and delete slicers in Excel. In Excel, slicers visually filter data within Tables, PivotTables, PivotCharts, and Power Pivot tables and charts. To insert a slicer into a worksheet, select one of these types of objects within a worksheet. Then click “Insert”
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Format Error Bars in Charts in Excel- Instructions

Format Error Bars in Charts in Excel - Instructions: A picture of the “Format Error Bars” task pane in Excel.
Format Error Bars in Charts in Excel: Overview             You can format error bars in charts in Excel if you add them to a chart. To format error bars in charts in Excel, first choose the set of error bars to format. To do this, click the “Format” tab within the “Chart Tools” contextual tab.
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