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Column headings in Excel

ResolvedVersion 2003

Jane has attended:
Excel Intermediate course
Excel Advanced course

Column headings in Excel

A colleague of mine is working on a spreadsheet set up by someone else and when opening the file the column headings are numerical rather than alphabetical. How can we switch this back to alphabetical.

EG currently the cell that is comunly known as A1 is in row 1 and column 1.

This makes understanding the formulae very difficult.

I hope you can help.

Many thanks

Jane Dengate

RE: Column headings in Excel

Dear Jane

Thank you for attending Excel Courses!!!! I hope you enjoyed the courses and benefited from them.

1. Please choose Tools > Options from the menu bar.

2. Click on the General Tab

3. In eth settings section Un-tick the R1C1 Reference style.

Press Ok to close the Options dialog box.


I hope this has answered your query.

If this has answered your query then I would request you to please mark the question as resolved!! If not and you have a specific question related to this then please post it as a new question and we should be able to provide you the solution for it!!

Kindest Regards


Rajeev Rawat
MOS Master Instructor 2000 and 2003
MCAS Master Instructor 2007
MCT

RE: Column headings in Excel

Thank you very much that is perfect!

Excel tip:

Quickly insert a function

In Excel 97 and 2000 it was known as the Paste Function dialog box, these days it's known as the Insert Function dialog box. Regardless, one has to choose Insert|Function. or the fx button to open it up. There is, however, a non-mousey way to get hold of the Insert Function dialog box: press Shift+F3 in a blank cell to open the Insert Function dialog.

Press Shift+F3 after a function name and open bracket to open the Function Arguments dialog. For example, type =VLOOKUP( into a cell and press Shift+F3 to obtain a detailed description of VLOOKUP's arguments.

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