
Under this tab, Excel offers tools to check your document. Check spelling, search some word in a dictionary, find synonyms or translate a word. All these options are offered under the group audit. You can also share comments with other users of the document. The Comments group of commands allows you to manage comments that you placed in the cells of the workbook. In the final group under this tab, you can manage who has access to the workbook and the cells of the same workbook.
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One of the last elements to be completed before a document is remmetre check the spelling. This can avoid you some errors that are easy to correct. |
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One of the last things to go before turning in a document is check spelling. This avoids errors that are easy to correct. |
Excel allows you to look up a word or phrase through
multiple references. You can then
develop
The word will appear in the search box with a list of items below.
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Even in Excel, you may need to find synonyms for certain words with the thesaurus.
A list of the synonyms appear in a box at the right of the screen You can click on any word in the list to continue your research. You can also begin a search on other words. |
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The word will appear in the search box. You can change the language reference or the desired result. You'll get a better result by searching one word at a time that many at the same time. |
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You can put comments into cells in Excel to remind you of important points or to convey information or comments to other users of the workbook. This section will show you how to add, browse, edit, view, print and remove comments. |

Place the cursor in A1 cell.
Press the New
Comment button.
OR
Press the right mouse button.
From the context menu, select Insert Comment.
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A yellow box will appear where you can add your comments. You can also change the size of this box to add more text.
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You will notice that there is now a red triangle in the upper right corner of the cell. This is to indicate that there is a comment. Place the pointer on the triangle to view the commentary.
Place a second comment
in cell D5.
You can also move the comment when you write or edit. The advantage of this option is not to mask other important numbers in your model.
Place the cursor on the border
of the comment box.
While pressing the left button of the
mouse, move the box to a new location.
The comment will always appear next to the cell unless you use the Show All Comments. When cete option is used, the comments are displayed at the point where you've moved.
You can always change the content of your comments.
Place the cursor in the cell where there are any comments you
wish to modify.
On the Review tab, the Add a comment turns into Edit Comment.
Use this command
to modify the content of comments.
The comments you place on your spreadsheets can be reminders or important changes. They are useless once you've made the corrections to your model.
Place the
cursor in the cell where there is the comment to remove.
Select the Review tab.
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With the Previous and Next buttons on the Review tab, you can quickly switch to another comment. |
You can view or hide the comments at any time by using this button. |
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The Show all comments will help you focus on them and see how they can improve your workbook. |
Depending on the options available from the PC, Microsoft Office will also accept added notes from tablets or touchscreens. You can view these notes by pressing the Show Ink button. |
Print the comments
It's also possible to print the comments. This may help explain the important points of your model. The following instructions explain how to print the comments of your spreadsheets.
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Your next printing will include comments either at the bottom of the page or where they are loated on your worksheet. |
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The options in this group of commands allows you to decide how other users have access to your document. You can protect a worksheet or workbook in its entirety to ensure that no dispersion can change your data or formulas. This protection applies to the entire sheet or workbook. However, you can enable them to modify certain data ranges. You can also share the workbook with other users and track changes to the workbook. |
You do not have to put a password. It is optional. You can leave this box empty while protecting your worksheet. There are several options you can protect than just the cells content. The list includes all the elements that you can have a control to keep the presentation or allow certain options. You can also enable the user to modify the content of certain cells. For this you must select the cell range and press the Allow Users to Edit Ranges.
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To remove
protection, press the Unprotect Sheet.
If you chose to include a a
password, you must enter it in the window before pressing the OK button.
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You also have the option to protect the entire workbook instead of protecting a worksheet.
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Select the Review
tab.
Press the Protect
Workbook.

You can decide if you want to protect the structure or location of window if you have multiple documents or views open at once.
To remove protection, press the button Unprotect workbook.
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Why use this option? It allows multiple users simultaneously to enter or edit data in the same workbook! To ensure that important data are not overwritten by users, the shared workbook will keep track of changes in each cell. The worksheet "owner" will be able to review the changes and decide which should be preserved or changed.
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Excel 2007/2010 lets you share a workbook with multiple users. You must save the workbook to a network or shareble folder that is accessible to other users. As a result you have to share the workbook.
Some options are not available in a shared workbook. For example, options to insert rows, columns and worksheets will not be available. Also, the majority of options under the Insert tab (table, graphs, hyperlinks ...) will not be available.
The document owner can withdraw at any time the sharing of the workbook. However, all changes by the other users before will not be stored if the sharing is stopped before they saved their changes.
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The previous section showed how to share a workbook with multiple users and limitations. This option mermet also share a workbook. However, it asks you to set a password to ensure that only certain people have access to that file. You will share the password to people who need access to the workbook. |
Protection worksheets to ensure that no modification is allowed unless you allow this option.
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Select the range of cells you will allow users to modify the
content.
Select the Review
tab.
Press the Allow Users to Edit Ranges.
All cells in the workbook will be protected except those that you allow the change. In this way, a user can enter additional information without affecting the template or the formulas that compose.
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When sharing a document, you can ask to keep track of changes in cells. You can then decide the contents of a cell if several people get different information in a single cell. The option to accept or reject the change will allow you decide what information to keep or reject. |
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