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Excel Function

How to create a user defined function

Edited on Thu 11 Sep 2008, 12:07

Create A Custom Excel Function

Hi Alison

To create a Custom function you need to first decide what calculation you require and what information you need the user to supply.

In my example, we are calculating the % increase in sales. In a table starting in row 2 we have the following headings; in Column B (

Excel tip:

Return to the active cell after scrolling

When I scroll a long way down the screen from a selected cell, I can return to that cell with the Ctrl+Back Space shortcut. The active cell now appears in roughly the middle of the screen.

Shift+Back Space does something similar. Scroll down from the active cell and Shift+Back Space returns me to it and puts the active cell at the top of the screen; scroll up from the active cell and Shift+Back Space returns me to it and puts the active cell at the bottom of the screen.

Note also, that while Ctrl+Back Space will return me back to a selected range, Shift+Back Space only ever returns me to the active cell, which is normally at the top left-hand corner of any selected range.

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