Excel 2013

How to recover a workbook in Excel 2013 and Excel 2010

May 29, 2015 by Admin 1 Comment

This tutorial explains the auto recover feature available in Excel 2013 and Excel 2010. The auto recover feature regularly takes a backup of the workbook and stores it in a pre defined location. This feature is useful if Excel suddenly crashes and you want to recover the working copy.

Document Recovery

A document recovery pane will be displayed on the left hand side of the Excel worksheet when excel is opened after a crash.This would contain the workbook(s) which were kept open during the crash.

If you want to recover any of the displayed workbook, then select the required file from the available files list.

Change AutoRecover file location

You can specify the path for auto recovery feature using Save workbooks Options. Click the File menu then Options link and then navigate to the Save tab.

Again navigate to the Save workbooks section in Save Options screen. Using AutoRecover file location you can specify the path for automatic backup.

Change AutoRecover Time interval

Using Save AutoRecover information spinner field you can increase or decrease the minutes at which the auto save needs to happen.

Disable AuoRecovery

We have seen the importance of AutoRecovery feature in Excel and by default this is enabled. But Excel also provides option for disabling this feature.

You can disable this by navigating to AutoRecover exceptions section then un tick the checkbox with label as Disable AutoRecover for this workbook only.

Any changes made to this would get reflected after clicking on the OK button available at the bottom of the Save options screen.

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Change the default file location in Excel 2013 and Excel 2010

May 28, 2015 by Admin 1 Comment

We have already seen the following articles on Microsoft Word 2010 and Microsoft PowerPoint 2010.

How to change default file location in Word 2010.
How to change default file location in PowerPoint 2010.

In this tutorial we are going to see how to change the default file location in Microsoft Excel 2013 and Excel 2010.

Click the File menu on Microsoft Excel and then the options link.

In the Option window, navigate to Save workbooks section under Save option. Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating system will have the default file location set to their users document folder. Now change this to your preferred working folder by making the necessary changes to Default file location property. After making the change, click Ok button to confirm and save the changes.

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Change undo limit in Excel 2013 and Excel 2010

May 22, 2015 by Admin 3 Comments

As per the Excel Specifications and limits the maximum limit for undo in Excel 2010 is set to 100. In the previous version of Excel this was set to 16. The maximum limit value is fixed but you can increase or decrease this limit by modify registry settings.

Please Note:- Changing Registry Settings is not recommended and do this with at most caution while trying these changes.

To change the undo maximum limit, Open Windows Registry Editor and then navigate to the following path

HKEY_CURRENT_USER –> Software –> Microsoft –> Office –> 14.0->Excel->Options

Create a new DWORD value with the key name as UndoHistory

Then modify UndoHistory by setting the Base as Decimal and value as 16. Click the OK button to save the changes.

This would decrease the number of undo same as the previous of Excel. You can also increase the undo limit from 100 to 200 for Excel 2010 by changing the above created Windows Registry key.

How to change the decimal separator in Microsoft Excel

November 1, 2014 by Admin 15 Comments

Microsoft Excel 2013 and 2010 by default uses the system defined decimal separator. In Windows 8 and Windows 7 this option is defined under the Regional and Language Settings available under Control Panel.

Step 1: Right click on the bottom end corner of Window 8 system and select Control Panel from the menu list (In Windows 7, navigate to Control Panel).

Step 2: In Adjust your computer’s settings screen, click Clock, Language and Region option.

Step 3: In Clock, Language and Region screen, click Change date, time or number formats under Region section.

Step 4: Click the Additional settings button in the Region window.

Step 5: In Customise Format window, enter the new separator for Decimal Symbol. Then click Apply and Ok button to save the changes.

Microsoft Excel also provides users can customize the separator used for Decimals and Thousands using Excel Options. Listed below are the steps to change decimal separator in Excel 2013 and Excel 2010

Step 1: Click File menu and select Options from the menu list.

Step 2: In the Options screen, click the Advanced tab and navigate to Editing section.

Step 3: Under Editing section, un mark the check box with caption as “User system separators”.

Step 4: Now enter your new decimal separator under Decimal separator field. For this demo we are colon (:) as the decimal separator.

Step 5: Click OK to confirm and save the changes.

Also See: How to change decimal separator on Mac OS X Lion

How to repair Microsoft Office 2013

October 12, 2014 by Admin Leave a Comment

This tutorial provides step by step instruction to repair Office 2013 products like Word 2013, Excel 2013, Outlook 2013 etc.. When you encounter problems with your Microsoft Office 2013 installation, then you can try these steps.

Step 1: Right click on the Start menu and select Control Panel from the menu list.

Step 2: In the Control Panel window, select Programs followed Programs and Features.

Step 3: Then select Microsoft Office in the Programs list and click Change button available in the menu bar. You can also access Change button by right clicking on the selected Program.

Step 4: In “Change your installation of Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013” screen, select Repair radio option and click Continue.

This should do the necessary configuration and start repairing Office 2013

Step 5: The following confirmation message will be displayed and you will asked to restart the system to reflect the changes.

Click Yes button to reboot the system.

Also See: How to repair Microsoft Office 2010

How to make a workbook read only in Excel

September 8, 2014 by Admin 40 Comments

We have already seen how to How to make a presentation read only in Power Point. Similarly an excel workbook can be made read only using Excel Options. Listed below are the steps to make a workbook read only in Excel 2013 and Excel 2010

Click on the File menu –> Info menu

Click on the Protect Workbook drop down arrow. This would display the following menu list

Click on the Mark as Final menu, the following dialog box would appear.

On selecting OK button the following confirmation box will be displayed.

By this way you can make an workbook in excel 2010 read only and prevent users from making any changes to the file.

Also See: Different ways to protect workbook in Excel 2013