Exploring Microsoft Office 2013
Excel Comprehensive
by Mary Anne Poatsy, Keith
Mulbery, Jason Davidson
Chapter 11
Collaboration and
Workbook Distribution
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Objectives
• Customize Excel
• Change properties
• Share and merge workbooks
• Insert comments
• Track changes
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Objectives
• Check for issues
• Protect a workbook
• Save a workbook in different
formats
• Send a workbook to others
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Customizing Excel
• Excel Options dialog box
• Some customizable Excel options
control:
– Color scheme
– Formula rules
– Automatic corrections
– AutoComplete rules
– Items display onscreen
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Customizing Excel
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Customizing Excel
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Changing Properties
• Metadata—data that describe other
data
• Document properties
– Author’s name
– Title
– Subject
– Company
– Creation and revision dates
– Keywords
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Changing Properties
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Changing Properties
• Properties dialog box contains five
tabs:
– General
– Summary
– Statistics
– Contents
– Custom
• Document Panel can be displayed
above the workbook
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Sharing and Merging Workbooks
• Collaboration—two or more
individuals working together to
achieve an outcome or goal
• Shared workbook—facilitates
collaborated efforts
– Stored on a network for easy access
– Allows simultaneous editing by multiple
individuals
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Sharing and Merging Workbooks
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Sharing and Merging Workbooks
• Compare and Merge Workbooks
– Combine shared workbooks into one
workbook
– Compare the changes to decide which to
keep
– Only works with copies of a shared
workbook
• Compare and Merge command—not
displayed by default
– Add to Ribbon
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Sharing and Merging Workbooks
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Sharing and Merging Workbooks
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Inserting Comments
• Comment—note or annotation
– Ask a question
– Provide a suggestion
– Explain worksheet cell content
– Help document a worksheet
• Comment indicator
– Red triangle
– Appearing in the upper-right corner of a
cell
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Inserting Comments
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Inserting Comments
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Tracking Changes
• Track Changes—records certain
workbook changes
– Cell contents
– Row and column insertions and
deletions
– Copied and moved data
• Does not track formatting changes
• Changes can only be tracked in a
shared workbook
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Tracking Changes
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Tracking Changes
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Tracking Changes
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Checking for Issues
• Before distributing a workbook—
check for any issues
• Excel contains three tools:
– Document Inspector
– Accessibility Checker
– Compatibility Checker
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Checking for Issues
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Protecting a Workbook
• Protect a workbook to guarantee the
integrity of its contents
• Workbook protection includes:
– Marking a workbook as final
– Encryption
– Inserting a digital signature
• Level of protection depends on
content security needed
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Protecting a Workbook
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