Auditing and Verifying Excel Workbooks

Learn from Excel expert David Ringstrom, CPA, valuable techniques that can be used to verify the integrity of even the most complicated Excel spreadsheets. In this comprehensive course, David shows you how to use Excel’s formula auditing and error-checking tools, identify duplicates in a list, monitor the ramifications of even minor changes made to your workbooks, use the Evaluate Formula feature, and much more.

David demonstrates every technique at least twice: first, on a PowerPoint slide with numbered steps, and second, in the subscription-based Office 365 version of Excel. David draws your attention to any differences in the older versions of Excel (2019, 2016, 2013, and earlier) during the presentation as well as in his detailed handouts. David also provides an Excel workbook that includes most of the examples he uses during the webcast.

Office 365 is a subscription-based product that provides new-feature updates as often as monthly. Conversely, the perpetual licensed versions of Excel have feature sets that don’t change. Perpetual licensed versions have year numbers, such as Excel 2019, Excel 2016, and so on.

Who Would Be Interested in This Course:

Practitioners who review and audit Excel spreadsheets created by others, or those who wish to improve the integrity of their own spreadsheets.

Topics Covered:

• Identifying duplicates in a list using Conditional Formatting.
• Selecting all formulas within a worksheet with just two mouse clicks.
• Adding a macro to Excel that adds the ability to display any formula in a cell comment.
• Exploring options for recovering lost passwords for Excel spreadsheets.
• Protecting sensitive information by marking key worksheets as VeryHidden.
• Transforming cell references into range names by way of the Apply Range Names to Formulas command.
• Differentiating between manual and automatic calculation modes in Excel, and when Excel may default into manual calculation mode.
• Understanding the purpose and nuances of Excel’s Personal Macro Workbook.
• Bringing Excel’s green error-checking prompts under control by managing the underlying rules.
• Learning the nuances of circular references in Excel.
• Adding a macro to Excel that adds the ability to display any formula in a cell comment.