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Getting started with Excel I Excel Bootcamp Part 1

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Basics first intro

      0:43

    • 2.

      Shortcuts for selecting data and moving around the workbook

      5:18

    • 3.

      What you need to know about text, values, and dates

      8:18

    • 4.

      So what options do we have for sheets, columns & rows, and cells

      4:40

    • 5.

      Copy pasting data - clipboard tasks

      4:09

    • 6.

      Making everything pretty with formatting

      6:49

    • 7.

      Getting everything ready for printing

      3:16

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In this short class you will discover the must-know to start with Excel, how to move around the spreadsheets, how to print, what shortcuts to use. It is the simple things that later on make life super easy and very efficient. Enjoy this part and I hope to see you around!

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Bas Dohmen

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I'm Bas, founder of DataTraining.io- training and consultancy company focused on Excel, Power BI and Tableau. I spend most of my free time making YouTube videos about Power BI. 

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1. Basics first intro: Do you want to learn axon from scratch or do you already know your way around Excel? I want to set the fundamentals right? Or maybe you look for tips and tricks to become more efficient in working with Excel. Then there's actual bootcamp is for you. Hi, I am bus and I'm a trainer and consultant for Excel, Power, BI, and Tableau. I run my own company. They are training IO. I'm also a YouTuber. I've built this complete online actual training to help you master Excel and the quickest way without wasting time learning things that you want to use in practice. This training is the first part of a complete axle boot camp that takes you from beginner to a very professional user. In this part, you will learn all the basics you need to get started before diving into different focus topics. So let's get right to it. 2. Shortcuts for selecting data and moving around the workbook: When you work in Excel, it's very important that you have a good understanding of all of the basics and fundamentals before you move into the more intermediate and advanced topics. Now I've seen a lot of people that work already for quite some time with Excel, but still don't know many of the basic functionalities. So in this section we're going to have a look at all of these fundamental things that you really need to know when you start working with axial, like formatting, doing transformations to your sheets or columns and rows, and working more efficiently using shortcuts. Let's get started. The actual workbook that we're going to use for this section you find in the first folder, basics first. So let's go there and open the Excel workbook. And we're going to start off on the sheet that's called example one, hotel booking info, where we have a dataset about the bookings for different hotels with data on the booking day to check in there, how many people came along, they stayed, etc. For most of the transformations that you're going to do an excellent you first have to select the data and then apply the transformations do the selected data. For example, if you want to adjust the formatting, you first have to select the cells and then apply the formatting. Or you want to summarize the data with a formula that uses maybe the sum or the average function. Then you need to select the range of which you want to take the sum or the average. Now, because this is something that you do all the time, you want to do it in the most efficient way. And this is where keyboard shortcuts command. And you might think, oh, I'm just starting off with axial, why they already come with keyboard shortcuts, because it makes your life so much easier and it can work so much more efficiently. I think it's something that you need to get used to store it away from the beginning. So let's have a look how we can select the data over here in the most efficient way. Well, one option that we have is to use the mouse. We could go over here to B3 and then scroll all the way to the right, and then all the way down. And with the scrolling, we'll go down and down and down until I reached the end of the dataset. However, if you have a big dataset, this could take quite a long time instead of doing it like this. But the mask, we're going to look at the alternative using the keyboard. Now, we're gonna go back to the top. Here with the arrow keys. We're going to select cell B3. Now together with the Control key and the arrow to the right, you see we jumped to the cell W3, which is the last cell that contains some data. And if you do this once more, then we jumped to the very last column in the worksheet. Now if you do the opposite, so control to the left, then we are back to W3 wages than the first cell with data that it finds. And if I do it again, once more control to the left, then we back in cell B3 because to the left of B3, there's nothing. Now of course, this also works vertically. If we select B30 again and then control down than we are in the very last cell where we have some data. Because right below it you say There's nothing. If I do this once more. So control down, then it brings us to the very last row in the worksheet and control up. Then we are back in cell B, 5,003. And once more than we were back in cell B3. So this is how we can jump very quickly from one side to the other side. Usually we don't just want to jump to the other side. We want to select the data in between. This is where we also have to hold the Shift key. So if we select b3 again, and now we hold control and the shift key, and then we press the arrow to the right. Then you see we again go to the cell W free but select everything in between. Now we can also go down. So hold Control Shift and the arrow key down. And we go all the way to the bottom of a dataset. So we have the whole dataset selected. Now, if we want to make an adjustment than simply hold the Shift key. And then with alkenes we can go to the left or we can go up a little bit to adjust the selected manage. Now let me go back to the top again, control up and to the left. So to select data in the most efficient way, you can use the arrow keys in combination with the Control and Shift key. Now if you already know that you want to select the whole dataset, then there's also another alternative that you probably want to know and that is control a. If we select any cell inside of your dataset, and then you do control a, they see it also select the whole dataset. However, control shift is still very useful if you don't want to select the whole dataset, but just parts of it. Another thing that you will be doing all the time when you work in a workbook is to jump between different sheets. Now of course, you can use the mouse to click on the sheet you want to go to. However, we can also use the keyboard, which is maybe a little bit more efficient. Go to the page that's to the right hand side of the current one, the Control key and then base down if we want to go to the beach that's to the left of the current one, then all the control key page up. Alright, so now you already know a few shortcuts. Now if you want to have a full overview of all the shortcuts there, I included a PDF that you can print out. Now, don't learn them by heart because that's completely useless. Now, only learn those shortcuts for transformations that you find yourself doing all the time, like during the training, I will highlight those shortcuts that I think you really need to know. And of course tried to use them as much as possible. Then the next section we're going to create a short summary table in which we are going to talk about how to enter text values and needs. 3. What you need to know about text, values, and dates: In this section, we're going to create the start for the summary overview that you find on the sheet and result. Now, to create a summary overview like this, we, of course, need to enter some text, values, and dates. And that's the main focus point. Now, we're going to start off on a new sheet. Now, to insert a new sheet, we can either click there on the plus icon in the bottom right corner, or you just right click on one of the sheets and then click on Insert. Now, we want to have a worksheet, and let's click on. Now, if you want to zoom in a little bit, we have the Zoom button here in the bottom right corner, where we can zoom in and out. And let's start by giving an overview a title. So here we're going to answer some data. About the booking info. So I'm going to call this one booking info, hotel one and two. And then using the RO Keys, we go to sell eight three, and here we can type in the headers. Maybe the hotel, and then with the ro key to the right, go to the next one. And here we want to have the hotel ID. And here we can have the booking date. All right. Now, there are a few more, which we can add a bit later. Now, for the hotel, let's just type in here hotel. One. And then here for the hotel ID. Let's say we're going to have in the summary overview just five bouquets, so I can type in one, two, three, four, five. Now, at this point, you should already notice one big difference between those cells in which we have the values and those cells when we have text. By default, you see that the values pop up on the right hand side of the cells. So they align to the right hand side. However, for the text, it aligns to the left hand side. This becomes clearer when I make this column a little bit wider, which I can do by placing the cursor in between the heaters for column B and C. You see the cursor changes. And now I click and drag that column a little bit more to the right. And then you can clearly see that the values are aligned to the right, and text is aligned to the left hand side. Now this is something that you always want to check before you start analyzing your data, especially when you have a new data set, where you have values and dates, that can quickly go wrong. Now, let me give you an example. Let's say we would not have whole numbers, but we would have decimal numbers. So, for example, 1.5. You see 1.5 pops up on the right hand side, which is where it should be because it's a value. However, let's say we would have data from a region, where as a decimal separated, a comma would be used, and I start using that data and Excel didn't interpret it in the right way, then this could happen. One comma five. And you see it pops up on the left hand side. It recognizes it as text. So therefore, always double check this. Now, After you check this, then of course, you could change the alignment. You will see that here under the home tab that we have different alignment options. For example, we can say aligned to the left. However, by default, it's always aligned to the right in side. Now let's remove these values again, which we can do by selecting before and then hold control shift down to select all of the values and then press delete. Okay, so the values are gone. Now, you saw before when I entered the values, I did it manually, one by one. So one, two, three, four, five. Now, for five values, that's not a big deal. However, what if we would have 100? You don't want to do this 100 times. Now there are different, more efficient ways in which we can fill up the series. Now, as an alternative, we can also use the fill series option, which you can do by first selecting the cell with the one, then go to home. And then a little bit right from the middle, there we have fill. Now, we want to have a series. So we go for a series. We want to fill it down, so in the columns. And here we want to go from one, two, five. And the type, you see, we have also this option for the dates, and we can have also growth if we want to. But here we keep it simple. We just go for linear. Okay. Good. And we have our series with 125. Okay, so far, we entered text, we entered values. We used the series functionality. But what we didn't do yet is entered date. So let's go here to sell C four and enter a date. Now, in the end result, is the first booking date, we have 22 January. 21. So let's type this in. So I'm going to enter 22. And here we have an option for a dot or four slash or a minus sign, whatever you like. So 22nd of January, so one. And as the last argument, the year 2022. Okay? Now, here, I'm going to make this column and get a little bit wider, so just like this. Okay. And you see it shows on the right inside of the cell, which means, well, just like a value, it bumps up on the right, because actually a date, is stored as a value. Now, to show you this, we can change the formatting. Now, the formatting you find under the home tap here in the middle, you see here we have different formatting options. And instead of formatting it as a date, we could choose either general or number. Let's go for general. You see the underlying number as which the date is stored. 44,583. What does that mean? Well, that is the number of days that we are away from 1 January 1,900. So if I would have typed in here, 01011900, And then change the formatting. Two, general. You see? That is number one. But what if you have dates before the 1900s? Well, then L cannot really work with those dates as dates. But of course, for most people, you have dates that are after the 1900s. Now let's do what we just did, which we can do by going to the home tab, and then here on the left hand side, there you have the undo button and the redo button. Okay, so here also the shortcuts. Control Z, Control Y. Try to remember those. So I'm going to undo it, Control Z. And let's do this once more and once more until I get my date back. Now, it might be that you have done exactly the same, but your date looks a little bit different or your date pops up on the left side. Well, that has to do with your regional settings that you're using in windows. If you want to change or check what regional settings you're using, you just go here right next to the windows button, type in region. And you see here we have region settings. A new window pops up. And from here, we can say what region we are using for the format and make individual changes to how the short date and long date should look like. But also here in the additional settings, we can change what our decimal separator should be. All right. Now, here, I'm just going to leave everything as it is, and we turn to Excel. All right. So if you're in the US, just type it in in the US format. So first the month, then the days, and then the years. Okay, but just double check that when you do it, that the date pops up on the right hand side, because Exel should store it as the values and values, they align to the right hand side. Now, let's say we want to create a series where we just increase that booking date by one day. Then we can just take what we filled out over here, go to the bottom right corner. You see the cursor changes, to a little cross, and then we can drag it down and fills up the series. This would be one option. Now, if you don't want this series, then you could also click on the plus icon and say that you only want to copy this sale. Okay. Now, let me undo this and go back to C four. Alternatively, we could also go to the home type again and then fill, ten series, and then here we can say that we want to have it columns type. Now it's date, and here we want to have date unit day. And also interesting is that here you have different options like Mon V here, and you have to say what the step value is and the stop value. Now, the stop value, either you put in the number that corresponds to a certain date, or you could also just type in the dates, huh? So over here, we want to have five days in the end. So I type into 26th of January 22. Click Okay. And you see, there we have our series of dates. Now, if you want to practice a little bit, then also add the other columns and all of the data. Just go back and forth between the end result, and the result of this part should look like this over here. Alright. In the next section, we're going to have a look at different options and transformations that we can do for sheets, rows, and columns. 4. So what options do we have for sheets, columns & rows, and cells: So now we have the basic structure of this summary overview that we want to create an excellent if you want to have a look at the options for certain objects, whether that is a cell or range of sounds, rather that is column or row. Or maybe she'd just right-click on the object for which you want to change the options, and it will give you an overview of what is possible. Now as an example, let's see what options we have for a sheet. Now, here we have she'd won the sheet that we are currently working on. And I right-click on it, and you will see we have the option to insert a new one, delete the current one, rename it. Now let's do this. Let's rename the sheet, and let's call this one example. Now let's right-click on the same sheet again. And let's have a look at some of the other options so we can move or copy the current sheet somewhere else. Over here. This can be within the workbook. And here we can also choose a new workbook. So if you want to just copy it over to a new workbook, you would say no book. Create a copy. Click. Okay. And now I create a new AKS, a workbook with that same sheet. Now let's go back. So I minimize this new workbook. Now let's right-click on that same sheet again. And here you see we have dark color. If you want to assign a certain color to cheat, then you can do that over here, that this can be very helpful if you want to keep everything nicely organized and assign a certain meaning to a color. Alright, now, for this example, I'll just go for blue. And here at the bottom then we can also hide or unhide sheets. Now if you hide it, then you see it disappears. However, we can always bring it back by right-clicking on one of the other sheets now, so if I right-click on any sheet, doesn't matter which one, then I can bring it back over here. Example and click. Okay. And now it's back. Now just like we do transformations on sheets, we can also do transformations on columns or rows and cells. Alright, now let's first have a look how it works then forgotten. So if we want to adjust the column, we already have seen before that we could left-click on the column header and then go in-between the column headers and then the cursor changes and we can increase or decrease the width just like this. Now if you make it too small, then you will see hashtag pound symbols instead of the actual values. Now that just means the values don't fit. So you have to make it a little bit wider. So we can then just drag it to the right so that it fits again. Or alternatively, we can do this also for multiple columns. So if I select all of the columns and then adjust the width and the same width gets applied to all of these columns. Now, if you want to do this automatically, then let's say it is like this and we want to alter, adjust the width of the columns. Then you go Also in-between one of the columns and just double-click. And then it makes it as wide as it needs to be to fit in the content that's inside of that color. All right, now, just like before, we could also right-click on one of the colonizers. So let's say I take this one over here, right-click on the column header. And here you see we can either got a copy that column and then paste it somewhere else. Or we can insert a new column, delete the column clearly contents. Now, I think this is quite self-explanatory and what it does. But the one that's kind of interesting is also here at the bottom, where we can then also hide it or neither column. So if we hide it, you see we are hiding that column. We want to bring it back. Then we just select the columns right next to it. And then right-click on calmer, unhide it, and that brings it back. Now, the one that gets to be tricky is the very first one, because there's no column to the left of it. So if you do this for column a and hide it, you see it's hidden. And now you will have to select column B and just drag your mouse and a little bit to the left. Alright, and then right-click and unhide. And this way you can also add bring back colony. Now hiding an annealing is no production, okay, So you can always bring back that column by right-clicking on the column or the sheet. However, what often happens, especially when you have hidden sheets, is that people forget about it and then send that maybe outside of the organization. And this way, you might share data that you were not supposed to share. Always watch out before you send something to somebody else. Double-check in your actual workbook. Artists steal it in sheets and maybe take them out first, especially when you get it from mechanic, then you might not be even aware that there are hidden sheets and that there are hidden Collins. So always double-check this before you send it out. And of course, also when you get an actual workbook, then one of the first things that I personally do is jack or the hidden sheets because you never know what you find. The next section we're going to have a look at different clever task. So how can we bring over data that we already have in a different sheet or a different workbooks to the current sheet. 5. Copy pasting data - clipboard tasks: So let's have a look at different clipboard tasks. How can we bring data over from one sheet or another workbook to the current one. Now, for this, we're going to work with the same example that we built before. So here we have our data. We have the main structure set up four, only Hotel one, but we also need the data for Hotel two. And you might have this data already somewhere else. So here in our case, we have it on the end result sheet. Now we can click on it, but try to use the shortcut keys. So with control and then page up or page down, we can go to the end result page. Now, From here, I would like to have the data for Hotel two. Now, you see, I'm using OKs. I'm going to go all the way to the left where we have hotel two, control shift to the right, and here we have all of the cells selected that I want to bring over. Now, here to copy it, we can do either the following, we go to the home tab, and then from here, cut a copy. Now, what is the difference between cut and copy? If we copy, then the data stays here. However, if we do cut, then it will disappear from here. Okay? Now, You see when I hover over it, there it also gives you the shortcuts, which is actually also very helpful in this case and one that you want to remember. So for cut, it's control X, and for copy, it's control C. Now, alternatively, you can also always just right click on the object that you're working with, which is in this case, a range. And then right click. And then you see over here, we have cut and we have copy. Now, Let's go for copy or Control C. Now, when you do this, then you see a dotted line going around. That means at the moment it's copied, and then we can go to the sheet where we want to have this data using the shortcuts control in that page up or page down. And here we want to have it in A nine. This is the top left self of where we want to have it. And then we have to click on paste, either here and the home tab or right click and then paste, and you see we have different options or shortcut Control V. And actually, this is a transformation that you really want to know the shortcut of. Control C, Control V. You will be doing it all the time. Control C to copy, Control V to paste. If you want to cut, control x, and then control V to paste. All right. So let's do control V. Now here, you see everything was copied, also the formatting of the values. Okay, so that you don't have to redo it again. However, this might be a good thing or a bad thing. If you only want to have the values, let's say, then we can click you on the control button that is there in the bottom right corner, so the baste option. Now, if you want to do it with the keyboard, you can also actually hit control, and you see all of the options. Now, over here, you see we can paste only the formulas or only the formatting or only the values. That's so you're flexible. Okay. Now, let's say we only want to have the values. Let's go for the V option, so that's this one. Values. All right, see, also for the dates, we then only have the numbers, okay? The numbers that underlie basically these dates. Now, you see, we have one column extra. That's because over here in the end result, I have a check out date. And here in the example that we bill before, we only have the booking date and check in date. Okay. Now, either we insert over here a little bit of space and then find the data for the checkout date or we get rid of that column. Also here, select the cells that you want to get rid of that you want to do a transformation to, right click, delete. And here we want to shift the cells to the left. Okay. So now, the next thing that I want to have is the same formatting applied to the bottom section. Now, here we can select those cells from which we want to copy the formatting, control C to copy, and then over here, we can only paste the formatating this option here. Okay. Now, I want to have Hotel two also here for the other cells. So I just drag it down. However, you see it automatically increases the number. So I click here on the control box and choose copy cells. All right. So now that we have all of the data that we need for a summary overview, let's make it a little bit prettier and adjust the formatting. 6. Making everything pretty with formatting: So we have all of the data n. However, it doesn't look so pretty yet. So how can we make it look just a bit nicer? And how can we, for example, adjust the formatting for the values for the day or maybe add a little bit of color. And maybe we will also want to get rid of these grid lines that you see there in the background. Now, this formatting options we're going to talk about in this section. Now let's start by having a look at the end result. What do we want it to look like? Now, let's say this is the formatting that we want to go for. Now here at the top, you see I made the title a little bit bigger in a different font color. And we added over here a different background color for the headers and a different font color as well. Then you see we have some grid lines in the back. We have merged cells here on the left-hand side. And space around it is just nice, clean and white. Okay, Let's go now to our current sheet. So I go back here. Let's start by updating the formatting for the title. So I select here cell A1. And here we can make the font a little bit bigger. And we can also choose a different form if you like to do so. Alright, so let's go for a bigger font, maybe 18. And then let's give it a different color. Let's go for blue. Now here I would like to have it in the middle. One option is to select the cells that you want to merge. And then here at the top you'll find merge and center. So different options in which we can merging cells. So if we click on Merge and Center, it becomes one big cell. However, try to avoid merging as much as possible because it can lead to traumas later down the road. So if you can avoid merging this case, we actually can. If I undo this, click on it again. We can also right-click on the object that we want to see two options, for. This case, a range of cells. Now, we want to format the cells. Now, click on it. If you want to know the shortcut is Control one. So maybe another shortcut that you want to learn. Over here, select the cells, control one formatting options pop up. And from here we can choose a different alignment. Here we have horizontal alignment and we want to center across the selection. Click on Okay, and this way we don't have to merge the cells, but it still shows at the very center of our cells. Okay, now, perfect, So we have the title. The next thing that I want to do is make these grid lines disappear. Not what I see a lot is that people select the whole sheet. So every single cell on the sheet, and then going into home and apply in different background color. But if you do that, they do it for all of the cells in the sheet, which you probably don't want to do it because there are million rows, about 16 thousand columns. What that is a lot of cells, right? So instead of that, let me undo this Control Z. And now we go over here to Page Layout and turn the grid lines off. Or alternatively, you can also go to View. And from here, you can also say that you don't want to show the grid lines, okay? Now, in this way, you can always bring it back and you don't have to apply different background color for all of the cells. Now, we want to have a different background color here for the others. So that's like the others go to Home. And then here we can adjust the background color. Let's maybe go for blue as well. Now, also here, alternatively, you could also have done again control one. Go here to the fill options and choose a different color. Now, these options that you see here correspond to the options that you see at the top. So most of these options you find either here under the Home tab, here under the formatting cells window. And when you right-click on the cells and go to Format Cells options. Now let's click on Okay, now we want to have a different font color. So also here, either control law, change it there, or directly here on the Home tab and maybe go for right. Okay. Now next thing that I would like to do is I would like to have some grid lines, some grid lines in-between the rows. Now, here, select the cells to which you want to apply and grid lines either going into the top, go for one of these options are CO2, more borders, which then brings you again to that same format cells when asked where we were before. Now here we want to add a border. Then here on the style you can choose the border diapers. So maybe we want to have these dotted lines. We want to have them in light gray. We want to have them in-between. Click Okay, you see we have this dotted lines in-between. We'll also want to add a border line around a summary overview. Select the summary overview, either control one borders or we go here. And maybe you want to have an outside border just like this. Maybe you also want to have a borderline in-between hotel one. And what they'll do is do this. And then we have also a thicker line in-between right now. Okay? Now let's insert over here new columns. So right-click and column a, insert. And here we can adjust the width of the columns. So let's do that for all of the columns. If you want to have equal f, just go in-between the column headers, then adjust one of the columns and you see it gets applied to all of the selected chords. Alright? So just play around with it until you're happy. Now maybe here for the beginning ones that's made these two a little bit smaller, but they don't take that much space. Perfect. And what about the number formatting? Because here we have values where I actually want to show a currency symbol or maybe I also want to have decimal places here. Well, this has also formatting, but Number Format. Now also here two options. Either we change it here under the Home tab and then go here to number, number, formatting. And here we see all the different options when you click on the drop-down. And also here we have more number formats. Or we do again control one and then go here to number. And here you see, we also have all of these different options to choose from. This case, we could go for number or maybe currency or accounting. Now, in this case I do want to have currency symbol. Choose the currency symbol that you like. So maybe over here, Let's go for the Euro symbol over here. I just have to look. Euro symbol, German, Germany, where am at the moment. And then adjust the decimal places we have assembled behind. Perfect to control the space at the top a little bit more, what you could do is maybe also insert an extra reward at the top. And now the last part that we still need to set up page layout, something that's often overlooked. But it's very quick to setup. However, can be very frustrating when somebody doesn't do it and 90% of the people don't do it. Which means that if you click on print, it prints out in the wrong way, which can be very frustrating and always happens at the wrong times. So that's going to be the next topic. 7. Getting everything ready for printing: Now we're almost at the end, we have a summary table. The formatting is setup. However, this very last step is very important. Page layout makes sure that when somebody clicks on print, it prints out in the correct way. And this is something that too many people skip, but it's very quick to setup. So make sure that from now on, you're always set up the page layout. Now, where can you set it up? Two options. Either you go here to Page Layout and then you find things like margin. How much space you want to have around the page. Then we have orientation, portrait, landscape, size, print area. And this is the most important and usually my starting point, what part of the sheet do I want to print? So let's start there. You can either select what you want to print from here, go to Print Area, set the print area. Now, this is one option. Now another option is to actually go here to the bottom right corner where we have the zoom buttons are right next to it. We have these three buttons. The first one is what we are currently looking at, the current view. But the last one is the one where I switched to when I want to set up my page layout. Let's zoom in. Now here you see this blue border lines, and it's blue border lines indicate the print area. We can adjust it so that only this part gets printed out and everything fits on one page. If we wanted to have an additional page, we can add breaks into it. So make sure that everything that you want to be printed out is within the print area. And once this is setup, you can also go to the middle part. When you also see the border. The border is around that. So basically the margins and extra stuff that you're going to put in the headers. Alright? Now, after this is done, I just return to the normal view. If you want to get a full overview of all of the options that are there, I usually would go down to Page Layout. And then here click on the little arrow in the bottom right corner, Page Setup. Now here you see we can set up the page just like we could do also directly from the ribbon. Here we have margins. Add a footer if you want to have a header or footer sheath. And the one that is most useful, I think, is the Rows to repeat at the top. If you have a large dataset and you print it out and it prints out of done different pages. Now let's say that you have headers. Well, you don't want to go back and forth between the different pages to say, okay, if third column means this field, okay? Instead of that, you might want to repeat that part, okay, So you can just click on the button to select the rows you want to repeat on every single page and click on, Okay. Okay. In this case is not relevant because everything is just on one sheet, but if you have multiple pages than this becomes very relevant. So this brings us to the end of the first section. We covered things like how to enter text values and dates and what you have to watch out for. We talked about different clipboard tasks, how to bring over data from one sheet or workbook to the current one. We talked about how to do transformations to sheets, columns, rows, and also to individual cells, and to get the formatting exactly the way that we want it to be, I hope that you're excited to go to the next part. We will talk about formulas and functions to add additional insights to our summary overview.