Save 5 minutes a day by using ASAP Utilities to quickly create or copy worksheets. "Easily insert many worksheets or worksheet-copies" The standard method to create a series of worksheets with custom names is to add them and then rename them one by one. This can be a time-consuming task. If you already have a list of the ...

Save 5 minutes a day by using ASAP Utilities to quickly sort your sheets. "Sort your sheet-tabs - the easy way" If you have a lot of worksheets in a workbook then it is sometimes easier to have them in alphabetical order. However, Excel itself has no built-in option to sort sheets - not even the new ...

"Work 10 times faster" We are huge fans of keyboard shortcuts. It allows us to do our work more efficiently. Studies calculate that using keyboard shortcuts allows to work 10 times faster than working with the mouse. The time you spend looking for the mouse and then getting the cursor to the position you need is lost time! ...

Save 5 minutes a day by using ASAP Utilities to quickly save your chart or range as a picture file. "Easily save your chart or range as a picture file" Excel itself has no built-in option to save a chart as a picture (unlike Word, that does have it) But fortunately there are add-ins such as ASAP Utilities ...

Save 5 minutes a day by using ASAP Utilities to quickly insert borders or empty rows between repeated values. "Quickly recognize groups of data" Groups of repeated values are easier recognizable if they are separated by an empty row, border line or color. You can quickly do that with the following tool: ASAP Utilities » Columns & Rows » Detect ...

Save 5 minutes a day by using ASAP Utilities to create multiple backup-versions of your file. "You can never have too many backups" If you often work with large spreadsheets then you know how frustrating it can be to lose data because of a stupid mistake. I like to have different versions of a file, so that I ...

Save 5 minutes a day by using ASAP Utilities to quickly protect or unprotect multiple sheets in a single step. "Have all your worksheets (un)protected in one go" In Excel, individual worksheets can only be protected one sheet at a time. It is not possible to protect multiple worksheets in a single step. The same limit applies ...

If you type a portion of your data in the wrong case, then you won't have to retype it. If you received a workbook from others that is in the wrong case, then please remember that there is a quick way to correct this. Save 5 minutes a day by using ASAP Utilities to quickly change the ...

Save 5 minutes a day by using the "Select » Select cells based on content, formatting and more..." tool: Quickly select certain cells automatically? You can have cells selected automatically for you, with the following tool: ASAP Utilities » Select » Select cells based on content, formatting and more... Especially when you need to select more than a dozen ...

Save 5 minutes a day by using the "Fill » Insert before and/or after each cell in your selection..." tool: Quickly add a prefix or suffix to all selected cells at once You can quickly insert any value in front or after every cell in your selection, with: ASAP Utilities » Fill » Insert before and/or after each ...

Save 5 minutes a day by using the "Text » Delete leading, trailing and excessive spaces" data cleanup tool: Quickly remove all unnecessary spaces With: ASAP Utilities » Text » Delete leading, trailing and excessive spaces Remove all spaces from the beginning and end of your data and replace duplicated spaces between words with a single space. Do you ...

Save 5 minutes a day by using the "Select » Deselect cells..." tool: Quickly deselect cells from a selected range With: ASAP Utilities » Select » Deselect cells... You can quickly deselect cells from a selected range, something that is normally not possible in Excel. Do you recognize this? "If I select rows 1, 2, 6, 10 and 18 then ...

Save 5 minutes a day by using the "Apply formula/calculation to selected cells..." tool: Quickly apply a calculation to all selected cells at once With: ASAP Utilities » Formulas » Apply formula/calculation to selected cells... With this utility you can quickly perform a calculation on all selected cells at once. There are many situation in which we think this ...

Hello everybody, We've scheduled a new series of posts/tutorials. Every week, on Tuesday, we'll give you a "tip of the week" to show you how to benefit from one of the tools in ASAP Utilities. By spending a minute a week to read it, we'll help you to save many hours of work. Since most people like to get ...