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Exploring Microsoft Excel's Hidden Treasures

You're reading from   Exploring Microsoft Excel's Hidden Treasures Turbocharge your Excel proficiency with expert tips, automation techniques, and overlooked features

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803243948
Length 444 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Improving Accessibility
2. Chapter 1: Implementing Accessibility FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Disaster Recovery and File-Related Prompts 4. Chapter 3: Quick Access Toolbar Treasures 5. Chapter 4: Conditional Formatting 6. Part 2:Spreadsheet Interactivity and Automation
7. Chapter 5: Data Validation and Form Controls 8. Chapter 6: What-If Analysis 9. Chapter 7: Automating Tasks with the Table Feature 10. Chapter 8: Custom Views 11. Chapter 9: Excel Quirks and Nuances 12. Part 3: Data Analysis
13. Chapter 10: Lookup and Dynamic Array Functions 14. Chapter 11: Names, LET, and LAMBDA 15. Chapter 12: Power Query 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Restoring legacy features

The term legacy feature is an epithet Microsoft uses for features that they consider have outlived their useful life. Microsoft rarely removes a feature outright from the software. Typically, deprecated commands get buried in the Commands Not in the Ribbon list, much like storing things in a basement or cellar. Let’s see how to bring back a couple of features that you might have thought were long gone.

Nuance

Microsoft did remove the Workspace feature in Excel 2013 and later. Workspaces were a collection of two or more workbooks and their onscreen layout. You still saved each workbook individually, but you could open the collection of workbooks in one fell swoop by opening the workspace file, which had a .XLW extension. You can still open workspace files in Excel, but you cannot create new workspaces. The workspace feature was a cousin of the Binder feature, which last appeared in Office 2000, and would allow you to create collections of Office...

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