Excel offers a variety of features and techniques that make it easy to prepare and print your documents. In this excellent course, Excel expert David Ringstrom, CPA, demonstrates step-by-step how to enable a full-screen print preview, how to use Excel’s Custom Views feature to apply different print settings, how to pick and choose worksheets you want to print, and more. David’s helpful tips will help you work faster and more efficiently in Excel.
David demonstrates every technique at least twice: first, on a PowerPoint slide with numbered steps, and second, in Excel 2019. He draws your attention to any differences in Excel 2016, 2013, or 2010 during the presentation as well as in his detailed handouts. David also provides an Excel workbook that includes most of the examples he uses during the course.
Publication Date: December 2018
Designed For
Practitioners who can benefit by utilizing multiple Excel features and functions to easily prepare and print documents.
Topics Covered
- Creating a full-page printout of a chart that resides on a worksheet.
- Learning how to deal with annoying changes to Print Preview in Word 2010 and later.
- Incorporating a new feature that enables you to pick and choose the worksheets from any workbook you wish to print—with no programming knowledge or experience required.
- Selecting any aspect of a worksheet you'd like to print.
- Seeing how to print a spreadsheet on the fly via Windows Explorer instead of manually opening a workbook in Excel.
- Keeping an eye on how much your text is being reduced as you try to squeeze more on a page.
- Setting a print range that includes multiple noncontiguous areas of a worksheet.
- Printing a list of all cell comments on a worksheet or printing visible comments.
- Using Excel's Custom Views feature to apply different print settings, including orientation and margins, to a single worksheet.
- Streamlining the process of printing spreadsheets to .PDF format.
Learning Objectives
- Identify how the Custom Views feature can streamline repetitive print actions.
- Recall how to print a list of all cell comments on a worksheet.
- Define how to print a spreadsheet with via Windows Explorer instead of manually opening a workbook in Excel.
Level
Basic
Instructional Method
Self-Study
NASBA Field of Study
Computer Software & Applications (2 hours)
Program Prerequisites
None
Advance Preparation
None
Instructor
David H. Ringstrom
David H. Ringstrom, CPA, is an author and nationally recognized instructor who teaches over 200 webinars each year. His Excel courses are based on over 30 years of consulting and teaching experience. David’s catchphrase is “Either you work Excel, or it works you,” so he focuses on what he sees users don’t, but should, know about Microsoft Excel. His goal is to empower you to use Excel more effectively. He's currently writing a book titled "Exploring Excel's Hidden Treasures". To learn more about David, you can view his
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Twitter (@excelwriter).