How Do You Create An Excel Spreadsheet And Avoid Mistakes?
Here’s something I would show my beginning Excel students. It allows you to setup a spreadsheet and avoid mistakes right from the very start. While it’s considered to be an intermediate feature, I’ve found that beginners can handle it. So that’s why I’m giving it to you. Give it a try and I think you’ll find it’s a great way to setup spreadsheets and avoid mistakes. **Open a new spreadsheet** The starting point of creating any spreadsheet/database is to get yourself a blank spreadsheet. So go ahead and do this now. FYI: The “quick” way to do this is by clicking the “blank paper” icon right underneath the Excel logo on the top left. Now go ahead and in the first row, enter your headings. For example, if you need a spreadsheet that will track people’s names and departments, you’d put name and department in the first two cells across columns A and B. In other words, cell A1 would be Name and cell B1 would be Dept. **Enter your headings and format them differently from everything else** In
