{"id":620,"date":"2016-05-27T10:47:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T14:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/?p=620"},"modified":"2016-05-27T10:50:32","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T14:50:32","slug":"installing-excel-on-new-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/27\/installing-excel-on-new-laptop\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing Excel on New Laptop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you like to get a new computer, even though it means a few hours of setting things up? I&#8217;m still setting up my new laptop, and experimenting with Excel 2016. There&#8217;s lots to do! And there&#8217;s a very short survey at the end of this post, so please answer, if you can.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Setting up the QAT<\/h3>\n<p>What do you change when you install Excel on a new computer? Thanks to <a title=\"Dick Kusleika - Daily Dose of Excel\" href=\"http:\/\/dailydoseofexcel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dick Kusleika<\/a> for reminding me to make a list, in case I ever have to do this again.<\/p>\n<p>I noticed the almost empty Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) right away \u2013 I&#8217;ll have to add my favourite commands there. Here&#8217;s a screen shot of my current QAT, so I can remember what&#8217;s on it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"qatbuttons01\" src=\"http:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/qatbuttons01.png\" alt=\"qatbuttons01\" width=\"316\" height=\"131\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I rarely make changes to the Ribbon though \u2013 do you add commands there?<\/p>\n<h3>Installing the Excel Add-ins<\/h3>\n<p>Next, there are some Excel add-ins to install. There&#8217;s a <a title=\"list of free Excel add-ins\" href=\"http:\/\/www.contextures.com\/excelfreeaddins.html\" target=\"_blank\">list of free Excel add-ins<\/a> on my website, and <a title=\"instructions for how to install an Excel add-in\" href=\"http:\/\/www.contextures.com\/exceladdins.html\" target=\"_blank\">instructions for how to install an Excel add-in<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Contextures Excel Tools\" href=\"http:\/\/www.contextures.com\/exceltoolsaddin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Contextures Excel Tools<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Contextures Pivot Power Prem\" href=\"http:\/\/www.contextures.com\/xlPivotPremAddIn.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Contextures Pivot Power Prem<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Fast Excel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.decisionmodels.com\/FastExcelV3_Buy.htm?source=contextures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Fast Excel<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"MenuRighter\" href=\"http:\/\/yoursumbuddy.com\/menurighter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">MenuRighter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Name Manager\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jkp-ads.com\/OfficeMarketPlaceNM-EN.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Name Manager<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Peltier Tech Chart Utilities\" href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/CKqqp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Peltier Tech Chart Utilities<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"VBA Code Cleaner\" href=\"http:\/\/www.appspro.com\/Utilities\/CodeCleaner.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">VBA Code Cleaner<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Changing the Excel Default Settings<\/h3>\n<p>When Excel opens, I want to see a blank template right away, so I&#8217;ll go to Excel Options, General, and turn off the &#8220;Show the Start Screen&#8221; setting.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"excel2013templates02\" src=\"http:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/excel2013templates02.png\" alt=\"excel2013templates02\" width=\"406\" height=\"251\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Are there any other default settings that you change when you install Excel on a new computer? I can&#8217;t think of any, so I&#8217;ll wait to see what doesn&#8217;t work the way I expected.<\/p>\n<p>Some people change the way Excel moves, when you press the Enter key, but I leave that alone. If I want to keep the selection on the same cell (rarely), I press Ctrl+Enter.<\/p>\n<h3>Excel Versions Survey<\/h3>\n<p>If you have a minute, could you please answer this short survey on Excel versions? It will help me decide what to write about on my blog, and in my newsletter. Thanks!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/1QsurCBXxO9r9Yya4wkGt4f6fhYw7gJzWJ_nNgFr3PYc\/viewform?embedded=true\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\">Loading&#8230;<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>__________________________<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you like to get a new computer, even though it means a few hours of setting things up? I&#8217;m still setting up my new laptop, and experimenting with Excel 2016. There&#8217;s lots to do! And there&#8217;s a very short survey at the end of this post, so please answer, if you can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-excel-blog"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Installing Excel on New Laptop - Debra D&#039;s Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/27\/installing-excel-on-new-laptop\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Installing Excel on New Laptop - Debra D&#039;s Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Do you like to get a new computer, even though it means a few hours of setting things up? I&#8217;m still setting up my new laptop, and experimenting with Excel 2016. There&#8217;s lots to do! And there&#8217;s a very short survey at the end of this post, so please answer, if you can.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/27\/installing-excel-on-new-laptop\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Debra D&#039;s Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-05-27T14:47:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-05-27T14:50:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/excel2013templates02.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"406\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"251\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Debra Dalgleish\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Debra Dalgleish\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/27\/installing-excel-on-new-laptop\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/27\/installing-excel-on-new-laptop\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Debra Dalgleish\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/fc3f038bcaeda478f9c5c06cfe648735\"},\"headline\":\"Installing Excel on New Laptop\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-05-27T14:47:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-05-27T14:50:32+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/27\/installing-excel-on-new-laptop\/\"},\"wordCount\":338,\"commentCount\":19,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/27\/installing-excel-on-new-laptop\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/excel2013templates02.png\",\"articleSection\":[\"Excel blog\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/27\/installing-excel-on-new-laptop\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/27\/installing-excel-on-new-laptop\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/27\/installing-excel-on-new-laptop\/\",\"name\":\"Installing Excel on New Laptop - Debra D&#039;s Blog\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/27\/installing-excel-on-new-laptop\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/27\/installing-excel-on-new-laptop\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/excel2013templates02.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-05-27T14:47:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-05-27T14:50:32+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/fc3f038bcaeda478f9c5c06cfe648735\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/27\/installing-excel-on-new-laptop\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/27\/installing-excel-on-new-laptop\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/27\/installing-excel-on-new-laptop\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/excel2013templates02.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/excel2013templates02.png\",\"width\":406,\"height\":251,\"caption\":\"setting up Excel on new laptop\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/27\/installing-excel-on-new-laptop\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Installing Excel on New Laptop\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"Debra D&#039;s Blog\",\"description\":\"Behind the Scenes in My Online Business\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/fc3f038bcaeda478f9c5c06cfe648735\",\"name\":\"Debra Dalgleish\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4ce35cfcf6755fd46a43ba02263b28eeee3c46c5caac91f7ff18f31c817bb943?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4ce35cfcf6755fd46a43ba02263b28eeee3c46c5caac91f7ff18f31c817bb943?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Debra Dalgleish\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/author\/debra\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Installing Excel on New Laptop - Debra D&#039;s Blog","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/27\/installing-excel-on-new-laptop\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Installing Excel on New Laptop - Debra D&#039;s Blog","og_description":"Do you like to get a new computer, even though it means a few hours of setting things up? I&#8217;m still setting up my new laptop, and experimenting with Excel 2016. There&#8217;s lots to do! And there&#8217;s a very short survey at the end of this post, so please answer, if you can.","og_url":"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/27\/installing-excel-on-new-laptop\/","og_site_name":"Debra D&#039;s Blog","article_published_time":"2016-05-27T14:47:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2016-05-27T14:50:32+00:00","og_image":[{"width":406,"height":251,"url":"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/excel2013templates02.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Debra Dalgleish","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Debra Dalgleish","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/27\/installing-excel-on-new-laptop\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/27\/installing-excel-on-new-laptop\/"},"author":{"name":"Debra Dalgleish","@id":"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/fc3f038bcaeda478f9c5c06cfe648735"},"headline":"Installing Excel on New Laptop","datePublished":"2016-05-27T14:47:00+00:00","dateModified":"2016-05-27T14:50:32+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/27\/installing-excel-on-new-laptop\/"},"wordCount":338,"commentCount":19,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/27\/installing-excel-on-new-laptop\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/excel2013templates02.png","articleSection":["Excel blog"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/27\/installing-excel-on-new-laptop\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/27\/installing-excel-on-new-laptop\/","url":"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/27\/installing-excel-on-new-laptop\/","name":"Installing Excel on New Laptop - Debra D&#039;s Blog","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/27\/installing-excel-on-new-laptop\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/27\/installing-excel-on-new-laptop\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/excel2013templates02.png","datePublished":"2016-05-27T14:47:00+00:00","dateModified":"2016-05-27T14:50:32+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/fc3f038bcaeda478f9c5c06cfe648735"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/27\/installing-excel-on-new-laptop\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/27\/installing-excel-on-new-laptop\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/27\/installing-excel-on-new-laptop\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/excel2013templates02.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/excel2013templates02.png","width":406,"height":251,"caption":"setting up Excel on new laptop"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/27\/installing-excel-on-new-laptop\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Installing Excel on New Laptop"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/","name":"Debra D&#039;s Blog","description":"Behind the Scenes in My Online Business","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/fc3f038bcaeda478f9c5c06cfe648735","name":"Debra Dalgleish","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4ce35cfcf6755fd46a43ba02263b28eeee3c46c5caac91f7ff18f31c817bb943?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4ce35cfcf6755fd46a43ba02263b28eeee3c46c5caac91f7ff18f31c817bb943?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Debra Dalgleish"},"url":"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/author\/debra\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":623,"href":"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions\/623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}