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Katie has attended:
Excel Advanced course

Consolidating tabs

When using the consolidation function and linking to the original data, the consolidation tab has + signs down the left hand side, how can I get rid of these?

RE: Consolidating tabs

Hi Katie

Thank you for your question, and apologies for the delay in replying.

The + signs that you see is an outline which is automatically created so that the linked figures are able to be displayed or not displayed on that spreadsheet.

The outline is only visible on screen - if you were to print the spreadsheet you can't see them.

If you remove the outline (Data - Outline - Group and Outline - Clear Outline) all the figures are displayed but the labels that are next to the figures don't really make sense. Try removing the outline and see what you think.

Amanda

Excel tip:

Quickly hide and unhide rows and columns

Use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+9 to hide selected rows and Ctrl+0 to hide selected columns. The good thing about this shortcut is that you do not need to select entire rows or columns. For example, select B3:D3 then press Ctrl+0 to hide columns B to D.

Ctrl+Shift+9 unhides rows and Ctrl+Shift+0 unhides columns.

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