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replyReply Thu 5 Nov 2009, 16:33Delegate Evelyn said...

Repeat actions

Is there a way to easily repeat an action, eg formatting a cell

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replyReply Fri 6 Nov 2009, 09:31Trainer Amanda said...

RE: Repeat actions

Hello Evelyn

Thank you for your question.

There are a couple of ways of repeating actions, depending what you want to do specifically.

For example, if you colour a cell green, then you want to colour another cell or cells green, select the cell/s and then press F4. The F4 key repeats the last action you took, so if the last action was to colour a cell green, this will be repeated on pressing F4.

If you colour a cell green, bold the data in the cell, and increase the font size, then you can use Format Painter to carry all formats from one cell to others.

To do this, select the cell with the formats you want to copy to other cells; then click the Format Painter button on the Home tab; then click on the cell you wish to copy the formatting to. To use Format Painter on multiple cells, double-click Format Painter before clicking on the cells you wish to copy the formatting to.

I hope this helps.

Kind regards
Amanda

 

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Repeating headings on spreadsheets that print on more than one page

By default when you print a spreadsheet out and it prints on more than one page, the headings at the top and the side of the spreadsheet don't appear on all the pages following page 1.

To get Excel to repeat headings on all pages when printing, go to File - Page Setup - Sheet, then select the rows to repeat at the top of pages, and the columns to repeat at the side of pages by clicking on the red arrows at the right side of the two boxes under the 'Print titles' area. Then click OK.

If you view your spreadsheet in Print Preview, you should see the headings being repeated on each page.

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