USEFULL INFORMATION REGARDGING TRACE PRECEDENTS AND DEPENDENTS

1. SUBJECT :COMPUTER
TOPIC : HOW TO TRACE PRECEDENTS AND DEPENDENTS IN
EXCEL
SUBMITTED BY:
BHUMIKA THAKOR

2. HOW TO TRACE PRECEDENTS AND
DEPENDENTS IN EXCEL

3.  What are Precedents and Dependents
though?
 Precedents are cells or ranges of cells that
affect the active cell values.
 Dependents are cells or ranges of cells that
are affective by the active cell.

4. STEPS :-
We must select the cell that we want to
trace the precedents or the dependents.
Then we select the formulas tab and then
from the area of ribbon named Formula
Auditing we select either Trace Precedents or
Trace Dependents as we can see in the image
below.

6. In the image below I have selected the J10 cell
(which contains a formula) and then clicked on
the Trace Precedents button once. Straight
away the blue arrows Appears showing what
cells affect the value of the currently selected
cell.

8. In the image below I have clicked on the
trace Precedents button once more, and
more blue arrows appear showing us
which cells affect the value of the primary
precedents cells.

10.  In the image below I have selected the cells
C9,D9,E9,F9,G9 one by one and each time I
selected one cell I also activated the Trace
Dependents button.
 Once we finished the blue arrows indicate what
cells are affected by the value of the currently
selected cells.

12.  If we double click on a blue arrow , that will
activate the cell on one end of the line,and if
we double click it again it will activate the cell
on the other hand.
 Once we have finished with tracing the
Precedents and Dependents we can select the
command remove arrows and from the drop
down menu we can select either to:

13. Remove Arrows
Remove Precedent Arrows
Remove Dependent Arrows

15. By using the Trace Precedents and Trace
dependents commands commands we will
be able to understand our formula much
better and if anything is wrong with it we
will be able to locate the error also.

16. THANK YOU