29. More Tips and Tricks for Excel 2013

The chapters in this book are full of tips and tricks. This particular chapter is a catch-all for some of the tips that did not find a home elsewhere in the book.

A few of the features discussed in this chapter, such as comparing files with the Inquire add-in, are new in Excel 2013. Other features, such as the Equation editor, were introduced in Excel 2010. Others, such as multithreaded calculation, digital signatures, translations, and protecting a worksheet, have been around for a while.

Speeding Up Calculation

Computing power has improved over the past decade, and Excel 2013 offers features to support that extra computing power. For example, 32-bit versions of Excel 2013 can use up to 3GB of system RAM. ...

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