Comments on: Undiscovered Excel Tips

By: J-Walk

J-Walk — Sat, 15 Jan 2005 00:13:00 +0000

Yeah, every time I see that Ctrl+Shift+A tip, I always say to myself, "Self, you must remember to use that." Except I never do. As Rob mentioned, it's less useful in later versions because of the tooltip. But I think it's still handy for entering the formula with placeholders for the arguments so you can come back later and fill them in.

FWIW, I use the Ctrl+Enter thing a lot.

By: ross

ross — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 21:44:00 +0000

thats tip sheet has been around for ages though, i must have seen it about 20 times by now: – and i still don’t use ctrl+sht+a

I wonder how much we forget about excel – as a perecnatge – crazy stuff,

By: Rob van Gelder

Rob van Gelder — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 20:41:00 +0000

Dick,

I found that site a while ago too... that's where I discovered the CTRL+SHIFT+A shortcut.

But I discovered it when I'd already moved to Excel XP. If you hover over the formula, the tooltip is actually a hyperlink to the help.

So, if I start typing =MID( then a tooltip appears - I can click on the tooltip MID and help opens for MID function. Great!

Cheers,
Rob