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Learn how to adjust the settings and make changes to the spreadsheets that you are editing in Microsoft Excel 2010.

how to save as xls by default in excel 2010

How to Save as xls By Default in Excel 2010

August 1, 2023February 6, 2023 by Matthew Burleigh

The Excel 2010 default file save format in .xlsx, which is great when you are working with people that are using Excel 2010 or newer …

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Categories Programs Tags Macros, Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, OneDrive
how to move a column in Excel 2010

How to Change Column Order in Excel 2010

June 21, 2023February 6, 2023 by Matthew Burleigh

The initial structure of a spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel 2010 isn’t always perfect, and you sometimes need to put rows or columns in different locations. …

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Categories Programs Tags Columns, Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
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How to Remove a Split Screen in Excel 2010

June 22, 2023February 2, 2023 by Matthew Burleigh

Microsoft Excel has several different viewing options that you can pick from when you are editing your spreadsheets. The correct view is the one that …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Views
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How to Move a Worksheet Between Workbooks in Excel 2010

June 1, 2023January 24, 2023 by Matthew Burleigh

Copying and pasting data between Excel worksheets, or even different workbooks, is a great way to work efficiently. Occasionally, however, you may have an entire …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Workbooks
How to Strike Through in Excel 2010

How to Strike Through in Excel 2010

July 25, 2023January 8, 2023 by Matthew Burleigh

Text formatting comes in a variety of options. You’ve probably changed a font or font color before, which is an effective way to adjust the …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Strikethrough
How to Remove Strikethrough in Excel

How to Remove Strikethrough in Excel 2010

June 26, 2023January 8, 2023 by Matthew Burleigh

Many applications offer you a variety of different ways to change the appearance of your text. You’ve probably done things like bold text or underline …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Strikethrough
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How to Add the Current Date to a Cell in Excel 2010

July 17, 2023November 25, 2022 by Matthew Burleigh

There are a lot of tools in Microsoft Excel that serve very specific purposes. Many people won’t use a lot of these, but they can …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Time
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How to Insert Bullet List Items in Excel 2010

July 17, 2023November 25, 2022 by Matthew Burleigh

While much of the data that you add to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet might only take up one line, situations might exist where you want …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Punctuation
click the list option

How to Create a Drop-Down List in Excel 2010

July 21, 2023November 21, 2022 by Matthew Burleigh

A spreadsheet with a lot of typos can be tough to work with, so reducing those types of errors is important. A dropdown list is …

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Categories Programs Tags Featured Excel, Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Utilities
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How to View a Google Calendar File in Excel

July 20, 2023November 10, 2022 by Matthew Burleigh

Google usually provides data in a format that is compatible with other applications. You might have already found that you can download Docs files to …

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Categories Programs Tags Google Calendar How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
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How to Show Developer Tab – Excel 2010

June 17, 2023November 9, 2022 by Matthew Burleigh

Many tech tutorials that you find online for Microsoft Excel will tell you to navigate via the tabs at the top of the window. This …

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Categories Programs Tags Macros, Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
uncheck the show sheet right to left option

Why is My Worksheet Backwards in Excel 2010?

July 5, 2023November 4, 2022 by Matthew Burleigh

Microsoft Excel has a couple of different potential layouts, though many people will only ever see one. A layout option that can be really confusing …

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Categories Programs Tags Columns, Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Worksheets
how to unfreeze the top row in excel 2010

How to Unfreeze the Top Row in Excel 2010

May 30, 2023October 19, 2022 by Matthew Burleigh

If you have previously frozen the top row of your spreadsheet so that it was easier to identify the data in your cells, then you …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Rows
select a sheet, then click OK

How to Unhide a Worksheet in Excel 2010

June 19, 2023September 23, 2022 by Matthew Burleigh

Did you previously hide a worksheet because it contained important information that you didn’t want anyone to edit? Or perhaps you simply have too many …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Worksheets
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How to Show Ruler in Excel 2010

August 16, 2023September 19, 2022 by Matthew Burleigh

While your primary concern when working with data in an Excel spreadsheet may be ensuring that the data is correct, you may also need to …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Rulers
how to automatically insert a decimal point in excel 2010

How to Automatically Insert Decimal Point in Excel 2010

June 19, 2023September 12, 2022 by Matthew Burleigh

If you spend a lot of time in Microsoft Excel then you have probably either forgotten to include a decimal point at some point, or …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Punctuation
a simple guide to better printing in excel 2010

Excel Print Guide – Changing Important Print Settings in Excel 2010

August 29, 2023August 19, 2022 by Matthew Burleigh

Microsoft Excel is a great way to manage and edit large amounts of data. The row and column structure, combined with all of the different …

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Categories Programs Tags Featured, Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Printing
how to delete a worksheet in excel 2010

How to Delete a Sheet in Excel 2010

June 29, 2023July 28, 2022 by Matthew Burleigh

New Microsoft Excel files often contain a couple of blank tabs where you can add data. But if you only need one tab for your …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Worksheets
click the page layout tab

Why Isn’t My Entire Spreadsheet Printing in Excel 2010?

July 20, 2023July 20, 2022 by Matthew Burleigh

If you have finished creating or editing a spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel and then gone to print it out, you might find that it hasn’t …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Worksheets
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How to Make a Row Bigger in Excel 2010

September 20, 2023June 29, 2022 by Matthew Burleigh

Adjusting the size of the cells in your spreadsheet is a pretty common occurrence, so you will eventually need to know how to make a …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Rows
uncheck the show sheet tabs option

How to Hide Tabs in Excel 2010

July 15, 2023April 12, 2022 by Matthew Burleigh

Being able to edit a visible property for one of your cells or worksheets in Microsoft Excel typically involves switching between the different tabs on …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Tabs
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How to Print All Columns in Excel 2010 on One Page

June 30, 2023March 30, 2022 by Matthew Burleigh

Microsoft Excel can be a difficult application to work with when you need to print a spreadsheet. One common problem involves getting your column to …

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Categories Programs Tags Columns, Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
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How to Fill Column With Same Value in Excel 2010

June 15, 2023March 28, 2022 by Matthew Burleigh

It’s possible that you have already noticed how often the mouse cursor can change as you hover over various parts of your spreadsheet. These cursor …

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Categories Programs Tags Columns, Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
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How to Turn Off Autofill in Excel 2010

July 19, 2023March 22, 2022 by Matthew Burleigh

Taking advantage of the various convenience features in applications like Google Sheets or Microsoft Excel is a great way to make yourself more efficient. One …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Utilities
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What is the Difference Between a Workbook and a Worksheet in Excel 2010?

July 28, 2023February 7, 2022 by Matthew Burleigh

Have you seen the terms “worksheet” and “workbook” a lot when reading about Microsoft Excel? They may seem like the same thing, or at least …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Workbooks, Worksheets
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How to Move a Row in Excel 2010

June 30, 2023January 5, 2022 by Matthew Burleigh

Learning how to move a row in Excel 2010 is a good way to quickly adjust the layout of the data in an Excel worksheet. …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Rows
formula bar is displayed

How to Unhide Formula Bar in Excel 2010

July 27, 2023December 14, 2021 by Matthew Burleigh

Knowing exactly what you are working on is critical in Microsoft Excel, especially when you are adjusting a formula. One way to make this a …

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Categories Programs Tags Formulas, Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
click the delete background button

How to Remove an Excel 2010 Watermark

July 15, 2023December 1, 2021 by Matthew Burleigh

While there is no direct way to add a watermark in Excel, there are a variety of alternatives, including header and footer tools, basic image …

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Categories Programs Tags Background, Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
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How to Change Page Margins in Excel 2010

June 2, 2023November 9, 2021 by Matthew Burleigh

Microsoft Office users often have experience with changing page margins in their documents, although that experience is likely with Microsoft Word rather than Microsoft Excel. …

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Categories Programs Tags Margins, Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
how to find the sum of a row in Excel 2010

How to Find a Row Sum in Excel 2010

July 31, 2023November 8, 2021 by Matthew Burleigh

If you haven’t used the formulas that Microsoft Excel provides, then you may not realize just how powerful the application can be. While its formatting …

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Categories Programs Tags Formulas, Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
how to make negative numbers red in excel 2010

How to Make Negative Numbers Red in Excel 2010

August 2, 2023November 5, 2021 by Matthew Burleigh

Microsoft Excel offers a lot of different tools that you can use to apply custom formats to your cells. Some of these involve cell rules …

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Categories Programs Tags Menus, Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
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How to Insert a Column in Excel 2010

June 2, 2023November 4, 2021 by Matthew Burleigh

When you are putting a lot of data into a spreadsheet it’s really easy to forget something or to decide later that you want more …

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Categories Programs Tags Columns, Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
set the fill background to white in excel 2010

How to Make an Excel White Background in Excel 2010

June 30, 2023November 3, 2021 by Matthew Burleigh

Unless you have made some changes to the default setting for new workbooks in Microsoft Excel 2010, then you probably have white cell backgrounds by …

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Categories Programs Tags Background, Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
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How to Merge Cells in Excel 2010

May 30, 2023October 21, 2021 by Matthew Burleigh

If you are fortunate enough to be working with an Excel spreadsheet where all of the data can be arranged in the default layout without …

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Categories Programs Tags Concatenate, Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
how to remove a page break in excel 2010

How to Remove Page Break in Excel 2010

June 17, 2023September 9, 2021 by Matthew Burleigh

An Excel spreadsheet, like other documents that you might create in Microsoft Office programs such as Word or Powerpoint, will print as much information on …

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Categories Programs Tags Breaks, Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
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How to Print on Legal Paper in Excel 2010

July 10, 2023August 23, 2021 by Matthew Burleigh

Print settings are often an afterthought when working with data in Excel, but it can quickly turn into a headache when you print your spreadsheet …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Printing
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How to Remove Page Numbers in Excel 2010

June 30, 2023August 8, 2021 by Matthew Burleigh

One useful thing that you can do when working with Excel worksheets that are going to print on multiple sheets of paper is to ensure …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Page Numbers
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How to Make a Text Box in Excel 2010

July 1, 2023July 1, 2021 by Matthew Burleigh

Adding text boxes in Microsoft Excel may seem odd, considering the layout of a spreadsheet and the way that the application is generally. But you …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Worksheets
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How to Set Columns to Repeat at Left – Excel 2010

June 19, 2023June 30, 2021 by Matthew Burleigh

Making a spreadsheet print properly can be difficult. As the file grows larger and the data uses more pages, readers might have trouble remembering what …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Titles
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How to Make Page Layout the Default View in Excel 2010

June 29, 2023April 13, 2021 by Matthew Burleigh

Excel has a combination of default settings that are meant to appeal to a large number of users. One of these settings is the view, …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Views
click the OK button

How to Remove a Password from an Excel 2010 Spreadsheet

July 7, 2023January 25, 2021 by Matthew Burleigh

Locking a worksheet in Excel can be a useful tool depending on how that worksheet is being shared. But someone viewing a locked spreadsheet might …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Passwords
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How to Change the Default Paper Size in Excel 2010

June 5, 2023November 11, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

Excel printing problems come in a number of shapes and sizes. Whether you have a column that keeps trying to fit on its own page, …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Paper Size
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How to Change the First Page Number in Excel 2010

June 8, 2023March 9, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

It is helpful to add page numbers to your Excel 2010 worksheet if there are a lot of pages, or if you think it is …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Page Numbers
group the worksheets

How to Enter Data Into Multiple Worksheets at the Same Time in Excel 2010

July 20, 2023October 22, 2015 by Matthew Burleigh

Separating data into multiple worksheets within a workbook can be helpful in a lot of situations for which you would use Microsoft Excel 2010. But …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Workbooks
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How to Format Dates as Days of the Week in Excel 2010

June 9, 2023October 15, 2015 by Matthew Burleigh

Data that is entered into the cells of a worksheet in Microsoft Excel 2010 can take many forms. Fortunately, Excel also offers multiple formatting choices …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Worksheets
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How to Display or Hide the Fill Handle in Excel 2010

June 2, 2023October 8, 2015 by Matthew Burleigh

It is a common thing in Excel 2010 to fill a group of cells with the same value, or to fill a group of cells …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Selections
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How to Hide Page Breaks in Excel 2010

June 2, 2023September 16, 2015 by Matthew Burleigh

Occasionally your Microsoft Excel 2010 worksheet will show a series of black dotted lines that indicate the page breaks for the worksheet. These page breaks …

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Categories Programs Tags Breaks, Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
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How to Change the Print Resolution in Excel 2010

August 2, 2023August 20, 2015 by Matthew Burleigh

The print resolution that is specified by a document or image on your computer can have a big impact on both the quality of the …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Printing
click the indent controls

How to Indent in Excel 2010

June 8, 2023August 11, 2015 by Matthew Burleigh

When the cells in a Microsoft Excel worksheet are nearly filled with similar data, it can be difficult to read and understand the information contained …

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Categories Programs Tags Indenting, Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
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How to Zoom in on a Selection in Excel 2010

July 24, 2023August 4, 2015 by Matthew Burleigh

Sometimes the amount of data in a spreadsheet can be so overwhelming that you have difficulty focusing on the important parts. This might have led …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Zoom
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