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Friday, December 5, 2008

Lesson 3.Formatting Spreadsheet Part 4

This is the last part of this lesson where we summarise
  • The trick to get a well formatted spreadsheet is try and look
  • Give it a shot and find for yourself
  • Some of theings we studied was how to prepare a dull worksheet to a presentable report
  • Tools like grouping, hiding cells and column, merging cells, filling colurs are some of them
  • Using various colour combination of patterns a lot of life can be put in reports
  • Hiding rows and columns help the user to display only the part which he wants to present
  • Grouping is user friendly eg: A person wants to present regionwise sales he may do so but he can provide a group inside which there would be citywise sales. So if the user wants to know that he may do so by ungrouping them
  • If there are calculation in the spreadsheet which have to be hidden or protected then cell protection is useful as it preserves the report from being changed

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