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David has attended:
Excel Advanced course

Excel Auditing

What's the most effective way to review the intergrity of a spreadsheet i.e. ensuring that all formulas have been dragged down correctly & no errors exist etc

Edited on Tue 7 Aug 2007, 11:18

RE: Excel Auditing

Hi David

Depending on the complexity of your worksheet, I can recommend the following:

1. Doing it manually
2. Use the FORMULA AUDITING toolbar
VIEW > TOOLBARS > FORMULA AUDITING
There are two tools that may assist you.
- Show precedant and dependant cells
- Circle invalid data
- Error Checking

Those will highlight the issues on your sheet. There may be ones that might miss, but it will generally pick up any major issues. Obviously if your formula is pointing to the incorrect cell / value, and the answer is not ciorrect for oyour use, it might not pick that up, as it only checks the basic structure and syntax.

Regards

Richard

RE: Excel Auditing

Thanks Richard those are handy functions to use.

Rgds

David


 

Excel tip:

LARGE and SMALL functions and their uses

Two of Excel's most common functions are the MAX and MIN functions which will display the largest (MAX) or smallest (MIN) value in a series. What if you need the 2nd or 3rd largest or smallest values instead of the largest or smallest?

The =LARGE(array,n) returns the nth largest value of a series.

The =SMALL(array,n) function returns the nth smallest value of a series.

In both functions, 'n' represents the order of the number you want to display. For example, putting in 2 as n will give you the second highest number; putting in 3 as n will give you the third highest number.

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