This trick works across the workbook. So, if you are on a different sheet and select a bookmarked cell from the drop-down menu, Excel jumps to that cell on another sheet.

To lock specific cells in Excel, select all cells in the sheet, then hold the Ctrl key and highlight the ones you want to protect. This will deselect them from the current selection.

With the list selected, you’re ready to enable data validation as follows: Choose Validation from the Data menu to display the Data Validation dialog box. Click the Settings tab.

In Excel 2007, click the Office button, and then click Excel Options. In Excel 2003, choose Options from the Tools menu. In the left pane, select Advanced. In Excel 2003, click the Edit tab.

Click the Crop button, hover the cursor over Crop to Shape, and select a shape from the menu. The picture is converted to the shape you have selected. Launch Microsoft Excel.

Learn how to create a drop-down list in Excel without or with color using conditional formatting and data validation rules.

To really save time, use Excel’s Name function to create a kind of catalog of areas that you repeatedly print. To do that, block the first area you want to print and highlight it. Then move your ...