Excel beginners are often daunted by the sheer amount of features Excel has. Here at DefeatExcel, we have put together the 10 most frequently asked questions by beginners. Do you know how to do these 10 things in Microsoft Excel?

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the 10 most frequently asked questions by beginners

2. Excel beginners are often daunted
by the sheer amount of features
Excel has.
Overwhelmed.
Here at DefeatExcel, we have put
together the 10 most frequently
asked questions by beginners.
Do you know how to do these 10
things in Microsoft Excel?
I N T R O

3. In other programs, you simply enter
Enter. But in Microsoft Excel brings
you to the cell below.
• Hold down ALT key and
press {enter}.
• If it's not working, make sure that
Home | Alignment | Wrap Text is
enabled.
#1
ADD A
NEW
LINE
IN
CELL

4. • Select the cells that you want to
merge.
• Click Home | Alignment | Merge &
Center.
Merge and Center has some
limitations though.
A better alternative is to use the
Center Across Selection feature.
#2
HOW
TO
MERGE
CELLS

5. Unfortunately, Excel does not have a
button for bulleted list..
• Hold down ALT key and press 7 if
you are using the numeric keypad..
Otherwise, copy it from somewhere
else and press CTRL + V to paste
into Excel.
#3
INSERT
BULLET
POINTS

6. • Select the range of cells.
• Click on Data | Data Tools | Remove
Duplicates.
#4 REMOVE
DUPLICATES

7. Excel the Smarty Pants always drops
the leading zeroes.
If you try to key in international
phone numbers with +, Excel drops
the plus sign too.
• In the cell that you want, enter '
(apostrophe or some call it single
quote) and start typing.
#5
INSERT
LEAD
ZEROES

8. We copy from Excel over to
Word/Outlook.
And we spend a long time trying to
get the layout in Word and Outlook
to look the same as Excel.
• Copy your table, chart or cells in
Excel with CTRL + C.
• In Microsoft Word or Outlook,
right click and select Picture under
Paste Options.
#6
COPY
FROM
EXCEL
TO
WORD

9. • For external website links. Type
any text in a cell and press {enter}.
Select the cell and press CTRL + K.
Enter the url into the Address bar.
• For internal links within the same
workbook. Type in a text to link and
press CTRL + K. Select Link to: Place
in This Document. Then click on the
worksheet to link to (e.g. Sheet1).
Specify which cell to highlight in the
selected sheet. Press OK.
#7
HYPER-
LINKS

10. • From the status bar, go to Page
Layout view (2nd button).
• To add a header, scroll to the top
of the page. Click on the area for a
left, center or right header. You can
add in static text as in the example
below. Once you are done, click
outside of the header area to
confirm the new header. Do the
same for footer.
#8
ADD
HEADER
AND
FOOTER

11. • Go to File | Print.
• Decide if you want portrait or
landscape printout. Click on Portrait
Orientation to change to Landscape
Orientation.
• Click on No Scaling. Select Fit Sheet
on One Page.
• Choose Fit All Columns on One
Page if you have contents are very
long.
#9
PRINT
TO A
SINGLE
PAGE

12. Always protect your worksheets by
making them into PDFs if possible.
• Holding down the CTRL key,
select the worksheets that you want
to convert to PDF. If you want the
all the worksheets, skip this step.
• Go to File | Export.
• Click Create PDF / XPS.
#10
EXCEL
TO PDF

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