what do YOU have on your toolbar

[RET79]

Hi.

A light hearted posting now.....

What custom features on your toolbar etc. have you got on your excel that you could not live without? What little macros do you have that you need all the time to make your life easier?

RET79

[Ricky Morris]

My custom created buttons are:
Paste Special Formulas
Paste Special Multiply
Next Window
Previous Window
Edit Goto Special Errors
Change Center Accros Selection to do so without merging cells
Accounting Underline

[Anne Troy]

I'm sooo jealous. I need to keep a *regulation* install. Otherwise, I can't help my users.

And then if I changed it at home, it would get me all messed up.

[Phylis Sophical]

Ricky how do you make or where do you get the 'Center across selection' button? That is so valuable. I'd love to NOT have to go through the Format Cells thing.

[dwhj]

On 2002-05-06 00:04, Phylis Sophical wrote:
Ricky how do you make or where do you get the 'Center across selection' button? That is so valuable. I'd love to NOT have to go through the Format Cells thing.

Create your own button and assign a macro.

You can record a macro (and put it in your Pesonal.xls), a tidied-up version of which :-

Sub Centre_Across_Selection()
Selection.HorizontalAlignment = xlCenterAcrossSelection
End Sub

You can create your own buttons and assigned macros for whatever you want.
For example, among the many I use :-

- Disable/enable event procedures
- Turn off move after entry
- Toggle formula cells between showing the result and showing the formula (good for copying formulas and pasting elsewhere)
- Convert formulas to values
- Copy non-contiguous selections
- Identify cells containing formulas
- Reset last cell
- Unhide next column (or next row)
- Wrap text
- Add a leading bullet
- Convert to lower/upper/proper case
- Capitalise first letter only
- Count of pages that will print
etc.
etc.

[dwhj]

On 2002-05-05 19:29, Dreamboat wrote:
I'm sooo jealous. I need to keep a *regulation* install. Otherwise, I can't help my users.

And then if I changed it at home, it would get me all messed up.

Why not have a separate customised toolbar (at least at home) for all your custom buttons?

[klb]

The special "buttons" I could not live without are the macros that I use to navigate very large spreadsheets:

Here (Names a cell Here)
Go to Here
There (Names a cell There)
Go to There
Go to dialog box

There are also special toolbars that open automatically when I use only for certain workbooks.

[RET79]

I have the following:

Paste Special
GoTo
Autofit Columns
Cascade

and that's all I can remember for now...

RET79

[Barry Katcher]

To Phylis Sphical:

No need for code. To customize your toolbar with the "Merge Cells" button, do the following:

Click on Tools-Customize-Commands
In the "Categories" box, highlight "Format".
Scroll down to "Merge Cells".
Click and drag the icon up to your "Edit" toolbar (or any other toolbar).

You can edit any toolbar with any of the icons in any of the categories this way. I now have 17 layers of toolbars. Of course, my spreadsheet is down to 4 rows, but what the hey.

[dwhj]

On 2002-05-06 07:26, Barry Katcher wrote:
To Phylis Sphical:

No need for code. To customize your toolbar with the "Merge Cells" button, do the following:

Click on Tools-Customize-Commands
In the "Categories" box, highlight "Format".
Scroll down to "Merge Cells".
Click and drag the icon up to your "Edit" toolbar (or any other toolbar).

You can edit any toolbar with any of the icons in any of the categories this way. I now have 17 layers of toolbars. Of course, my spreadsheet is down to 4 rows, but what the hey.

Phylis was not looking for a merge cells button.
She was looking for a button to center across selected cells (without merging).
I can't find such a button in any of the toolbar available commands - and so suggested a custom button with appropriate macro.