Archive for the ‘MS Excel’ tag
MS Excel Dropdown List
Create Excel dropdown list step by step guide
Just like a drop-down list on a web page, the drop-down list on an Excel spreadsheet presents a [limited] number of options for you to select, thus limit potential data entry errors and make the output more consistent and uniform. The drop-down list mentioned in this post has a down arrow button, but it is not the Filter/AutoFilter functionality of Excel, which can be accessed through menu Data > Filter > AutoFilter.
MS Excel Custom Colors, Custom Chart Colors & Custom Color Palette
Apply RGB colors / custom colors/ custom color palette to MS Excel charts and text.
Using consistent colors and color palette across different marketing tools and materials — ads, sale literature, web pages, spreadsheets and charts,… — are significantly important and beneficial. However, most of the time your business colors are not included inside Excel default color palette. If that’s the case, you’ll need to replace the default colors in Excel with your customized color palette. Here’s how:
Create a spreadsheet to hold your custom colors
- Ctrl N to create a new blank workbook

