If you are viewing a worksheet in Microsoft Excel that you’re not familiar with, you might need to have a look at where formulas have been used and what formulas were used.
Instead of clicking cell by cell to view what displays in each cell’s formula bar – which can become a little tedious in a big spreadsheet – a better way would be to see all the formulas displayed in the cells.
- On the Formulas tab of the Ribbon, click Show Formulas in the Formula Auditing Group.
- Keystroke Shortcut: Ctrl + ` (accent grave)
The ` (accent grave) is just below the ~ (tilde sign) on the same key. On most keyboards this is in the upper left-hand corner. Just below the Esc-key and to the left of the number 1.
- Toggle between Normal view and Formulas view by pressing Ctrl + ` repeatedly.
The ‘Show Formulas’ view will double the width of all columns as it exposes all formulas. It also left aligns all of the data.
