Spreadsheet Assistant

A time saving add-in product for Microsoft® Excel®

Do you have these problems:

• It takes forever to highlight sections of a huge range of data in Excel?
• Difficulty typing/formatting text paragraphs within Excel?
• Several worksheets that you need to easily access all the time?
• Trouble inserting reminders/notes into Excel workbooks?

The Spreadsheet Assistant can solve all of these problems and more!

The Spreadsheet Assistant is an add-in for Excel that adds many useful features and functions to Excel to make it even easier to use. The Spreadsheet Assistant lets you quickly perform an incredible number of time saving tasks.  For example there are File Assistants for quick access to your favorite workbooks and directories, Select and Copy Assistants that select and copy cells without scrolling the screen, and an Any Math Action Assistant that performs any arithmetic changes on an entire range. The new features are nicely integrated into the Excel menus on the new Assistants menu and can be easily assigned to buttons. You can learn the new features quickly from the tutorial's exercises that demonstrate through hands on use the features added by the Spreadsheet Assistant. Compatible with Excel 97, 2000, 2002, XP, 2003 2007 and 2010!

• 5 STAR RATING BY ZDNET - THEIR HIGHEST RATING! "BEST OF THE NET" BY P.C. COMPUTING! EDITOR'S PICK BY PC WORLD!
• James Powell the editor of WinMag says "the Spreadsheet Assistant is a Must ... Bottom Line: A worthwhile time-saving addition to Excel."

The Spreadsheet Assistant comes with an exercise workbook with step by step instructions that helps you quickly learn many of the new features it adds to Excel. There are exercises on the new file features, the new edit features, and the new select features to name just a few. The exercise workbook contains many exercises designed to give you hands on training with the new time saving features.

The Spreadsheet Assistant Top Ten Features

1) Selecting or filling ranges without the screen moving!Just highlight the initial cells in the range right click on the range and pick the select or fill feature that you want to run!  The screen does not move when you select or fill a range!  Eliminate the wild screen scrolling you used to do (unless you enjoy it).

2) Perform any math action on a range of cells!  Highlight a range of cells select the Any Math Action feature and enter the action (/ 100 * 1000 ...) you want to take. Bingo! The cells are changed instantly. Now think about how long the same change would have taken you to do manually.

3) Insert Sticky Notes anywhere in your worksheets for quick reminders. Simply select Insert Sticky Note from the menus. You have a choice of colors and features.  Even better the sticky notes do not print unless you want them to.  If sticky notes are useful for your paper work you can imagine how useful they are in your complex spreadsheets.

4) The new (optional) Spreadsheet Assistant Toolbar that puts 30 of our favorite features available with just the click of a button:

5) The Favorite Directories feature and Bookmark feature which lets you quickly access your favorite directories. We know that is two features but they are companion features!  These features are especially useful if you have files in different directories such as on your PC and on a network.

6) The Hide and Un-Hide Sheets feature surprised us and we wrote it! Now when you are working on two widely separated sheets in a workbook just hide the sheets between the ones you are working on.  This makes it easy to move from one sheet to the other with just a single mouse click. You will not believe how much un-needed sheet scrolling this one feature eliminates! And clicking on those small tiny sheet scrolling buttons is a pain. We liked it so much we also put it on the workbook tab pop-up menu.  And we make it easy to un-hide many sheets at one time!

7) The Save or Close Multiple Files features. Instead of having to go to each individual file and save or close it just run one of these features instead.

8) The special pivot table features found under the Data Menu. Our favorites are the extend the pivot table data range feature, the refresh all pivot tables feature, the format pivot table fields feature, and ... well you get the picture. Check them out!

9) The set print area and titles features. These features are the easiest way to set the print area and titles that you can find. A runner-up on our top ten list is the "Display bottom of Print Area" feature.

10) The rename or delete the active file features.  The first feature allows you to rename a file after you have opened it. You can even use this feature to move the file to another directory.  The delete the active file feature allows you to delete a file after you open it.  Now you do not have to close the file go to File Manager or Windows Explorer find the file make certain it is the right file and then finally delete it.

   Honorable mention goes to the Conditional Select features. For example these features allow you to select just number cells (a great way to find our which cells are the input cells) select just formula cells or select just the cells containing #REF values (you've probably been there before). There is even a special select cells feature that selects cells based on an IF test.

Some other features that almost made the top ten list are:

• Toggle grid lines off and on feature found under the View Menu. Grid line haters will love this feature.

• The quick format features under the Format menu.

• The paragraph fixer feature. Now you can use Excel like a real word processor!

   Did we mention the Spreadsheet Assistant allows you to easily assign any feature to a button for even faster and easier use? And to help you save time finding just the right feature we put a "find a feature" feature at the top of the Spreadsheet Assistant's feature list. That is a lot of features but that's what the Spreadsheet Assistant gives you.               

Many of the Spreadsheet Assistant's features are accessed directly from the Excel menus:

Edit Menu
View Menu
Insert Menu
Format Menu
Tools Menu
Data Menu
Windows Menu
Cell Popup
Sheet Tab Popup