Workbook

How to increase number of worksheets Excel

March 18, 2016 by Admin 1 Comment

Microsoft Excel by default contains 3 worksheets while creating a new Workbook. For creating a new workbook you can specify the number of Worksheet that a Workbook needs to contain. This can be modified using Excel Options. Listed below are steps for increasing number of Worksheets for a new Workbook in Excel 2013, Excel 2010 and Excel 2007

In Excel 2013 and Excel 2010 –> Click on File menu and then Options.

In Excel 2007 –> Click on Excel Options and then Popular menu.

Under When creating new workbooks section there is include this many sheets fields. This can be used for increasing the number worksheets while creating a new workbook. The minimum value is 1 and the maximum is 255. Check out the below video demo to increase worksheets size in Excel 2013

Also See: How to move or copy worksheets in 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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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

How to hide header/footer while typing in Excel 2010

February 7, 2012 by Admin 2 Comments

This is in response to question asked by a reader of this blog related with header and footer in Excel 2010.

how do I make the header / footer not visible on the page while typing?

When you click on the insert header and footer option in Excel 2010, excel would immediately change the view to Page Layout. Hence you would see the newly added header and footer in your worksheet.

After typing the required header and footer details and do not want to see header and footer while typing you excel sheet in the data section then you can change the view to Normal by selecting Normal under the Workbook Views section.

This would temporarily hide the inserted header and footer in the Worksheet and you can always get it back by changing the Workbook view to Page Layout.

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How to password protect workbook in Excel Mac 2011

September 29, 2011 by Admin 1 Comment

Excel for Mac 2011 users can password protect the workbook using the option provided as part of the File menu. Click the File menu and select Passwords from the displayed menu list.

This would display the following File Passwords window with different password option.

You can set a password for opening the excel workbook using the Password to open field. Similarly to set a password for modifying the content in the excel workbook, you can use the Password to modify. If you want to make the workbook as readonly then mark the check box labelled as Read-only recommended.