Microsoft Excel 222 Tutorial Outline

INTRODUCTION
Objectives
Pre-Requisites

LESSON 1. STYLES
Format > Style
Style Dialog
Built-In Excel Styles
Currency Style
Modifying Styles
Style Patterns
Creating your own Styles
Changing styles throughout your workbook
Adding the Style dropdown to your toolbar
Style Borders
Merging styles from different workbooks

LESSON 2. GROUPING AND OUTLINING
Traditional outline formats
Sales & expenses
Tracking multiple stores
Data > Group and Outline > Auto Outline
Grouping and Outline Levels
Collapse and Expand
Data > Group and Outline > Clear Outline
Horizontal outlines
Grouping months into quarters
Data > Group and Outline > Settings
Summary rows below detail
Summary columns to right of detail
Automatic styles
RowLevel_1 and RowLevel_2
ColLevel_1 and ColLevel_2

LESSON 3. MANUAL GROUPING
Data > Sort review
Data > Group and Outline > Group
Creating a manual group
Creating a sorting and grouping toolbar
Manually creating subtotals
Hide detail and show detail
Review of creating a custom view

LESSON 4. GROUPING TIPS AND TRICKS
Selecting only visible items when you collapse a group
Selecting Visible Cells Only
Using the Go To command
Using CTRL-8
Creating a HeaderGroupStyle
Changing your style and watching the whole sheet change

LESSON 5. DATA VALIDATION
Correcting user input
Data > Validation
Checking text length
Custom Input Message
Custom Error Alerts
Stop, Warning, or Information
Dealing with dates in a range
Number types
Picking from a list
Drop down menu of options
Hiding your source list
Putting your list in the Settings dialog
Formula Auditing Toolbar - a quick look
Circle Invalid Data
Clear Validation Circles
Conditional Formatting - review
Custom formulas for data validation
ISTEXT() function
Ignore Blank
LEFT() function

REVIEW
Review Topics