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Excel: File -> Options -> Advanced
Advanced options for working with Excel
Editing options
After pressing Enter, move selection …
Automatically insert a decimal point (places)
Enable fill handle and
cell drag-and-drop
- Alert before overwriting cells
Allow editing directly in cells
Extend data range formats and formulas
Enable automatic percent entry
Enable AutoComplete for cell values
Zoom on roll with IntelliMouse
Alert the user when a potentially time consuming operation occurs
- When this number of cells (in thousands) is affecged:
Use system separators (or specify decimal separator and/or thousands separator)
Compare with the
Object model properties
application.useSystemSeparators,
.thousandsSeparator and
.decimalSeparator.
Cursor movement (logical or visual)
Cut, copy and paste
Show Paste Options button when content is pasted
Show Insert Options buttons
Cut, copy, and sort inserted objects with their parent cells
Image Size and Quality
Discard editing data
Do not compress images in file
Set default target output to …
Print
High quality mode for graphics
Chart
Show chart element names on hover
Show data point values on hover
Properties follow chart data point for all new workbooks
Current workbook
Properties follow chart data point for current workbook
Display
Show this number of Recent Workbooks …
Quickly access this number of Recent Workbooks
Show this number of unpinned Recent Folders …
Ruler units
Show function ScreenTips
Disable hardware graphics acceleration
For cells with comments, show
- No comments or indicators
- Indicators only, and comments on hover
- comments and indicators
Default direction
- Right-to-left
- Left-to-right
Display options for this workbook
Show horizontal scroll bar
Show vertical scroll bar
Group dates in the AutoFilter menu
For objects, show
- All
- Nothing (hide object)
Display options for this worksheet
Show row and column headers
Show formulas in cells instead of their calculated results
Show sheet right-to-left
Show page breaks
Show a zero in cells that have zero value
Show outline symbols if an outline is applied
Show gridlines
Gridline color
Formulas
Enable multi-threaded calculation
Number of calculation threads
- Use all processors on this computer (n)
- Manual
Allow user-defined
XLL functions to run on a computer cluster
Cluster type …, Options …
When calculating this workbook
Update links to other documents
Set precision as displayed
Use 1904 date system
Save external link values
Data
Disable undo for large PivotTable refresh operations to reduce refresh time
Disable undo for PivotTable with at least this number of data sources rows (in thousands): …
Prefer the Excel
Data Model when creating PivotTables, QueryTables and Data Connections
Disable undo for
Data Model operations when the model is at least this large (in MB)
Enable Data Analysis add-ins: Power Pivot, Power View and Power Map
Disable automatic grouping of Date/Time columns in PivotTables
Lotus compatibility
Microsoft Excel menu key: …
transition navigation keys
Lotus compatibility Settings for …
Transition formula evaluation
Transition formula entry