Spreadsheet Models for Managers
Getting Access to Spreadsheet Models for Managers
If 
you use Excel to model businesses, business processes, or
business transactions, this course will change your life. You’ll learn how to create tools for yourself that will amaze
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Spreadsheet Models for Managers
| Add-ins, versions, & collaboration | 4/10 Session Links |
In this course, we encourage you to collaborate with others. When you do, you’ll often want to swap workbooks back and forth. That’s fine. But a problem arises when the workbooks you swap use worksheet functions that are found in add-ins — in particular, when they’re found in our add-in. This problem isn’t specific to our add-in — it arises from the way Excel workbooks store information about the formulas in cells.
When one of those formulas uses a function found in an add-in, the information about how to connect to that function includes the add-in’s filename. If that add-in is not in the standard place on your computer, you get an “external link” notification when you load the file.
Here’s where it gets a little messy. Even if you’ve installed the add-in in the standard place on your computer, the different versions of Excel store their add-ins in different places. This means that when you try to load a workbook into Excel 2007+, and that workbook uses a function from an add-in, and that workbook was last modified in Excel 2011, you’ll get a “change links” notification when you load. It doesn’t happen when you move from one Windows version to another, or when you move from Windows to the Mac. It happens only when you move from the Mac to a Windows version.
Luckily, it’s not fatal. All you have to do is follow Excel’s instructions to change the links. But it’s a burden, and an annoying one at that.
So we recommend that when you get that notification, just cancel out of the dialog and use the command Formulas>SMM>Menu>Change SMM Links (Excel 2007, 2010, and 2013) or SMM>Change SMM Links (Excel 2011). Of course, this works only if the offending links are the links to our add-in. For other links, you must use the standard Excel commands.
Whether you use our command or Excel’s, when a Mac user sends a later version of the workbook back to a Windows collaborator, he or she will have to fix the links again, either by invoking our command or by using Excel’s command, to translate the links back to the version they used before you changed them.
Last Modified: Wednesday, 27-Apr-2016 04:15:26 EDT
The space character, in many cases, doesn’t change the value of a formula. For instance, these two formulas return the same value:
- =A1 + 2
- =A1+2
Some people think that well-placed spaces make formulas easier to read. Although that might be true, the practice is both inconvenient and extremely dangerous. More
Excel’s online help, and many of the how-to books you can buy, provide long lists of keystroke shortcuts for carrying out specific operations, such as inserting rows, selecting regions, or deleting columns. And they are useful.
But the true power of the keyboard comes not from using these particular commands. Rather, it comes from learning combinations that are useful for particular situations that you encounter frequently.
For instance, there’s no command for deleting the rows that contain the selected cells, but there is a combination:
- Shift+Space selects the rows that contain the selection.
- Ctrl+- deletes the now-selected rows.
And so, Shift+Space Ctrl+- deletes the rows containing the selection.
Learning a vast array of keystroke commands is probably less useful than learning the keystroke combinations that do exactly what you need to do most often.