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How to change properties of excel file on Mac (Step by Step)

July 22, 2022
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In this modern world excel plays a vital role in working for any financial need whether, about company procedures or making data analysis, all work can be done easily on excel. This update of the spreadsheet includes 100 built-in formulas, tables, and many other functions also by which a single person can take thousands of benefits easily it also helps to work smartly like it saves a lot of time rather than handwritten notes and you can easily save it in your folders for later use.

This tutorial will help you to learn how to change the properties of excel files and there are several ways to edit settings in a spreadsheet. A personalized editing style will make the table easier to edit and read.

The first way to change the properties of the excel file has several steps which are given below.

1) Our first step is to open the excel file, click on the menu option which appears on the top of the left, and when you open the menu bar there are several options will get appear.

2) The second step is to click on the options and when u will press on the option a new bar will open and here another course of action will open like this.

3) Our third step is to click on the edit option and again a dialog box will pop up on the screen, head to the interface of Edit Settings, check After pressing Enter, move selection, and select Right at Direction. If you press the Enter key, the selected area will automatically move one grid to the right.

How to change windows file attributes fixed decimal in Excel files.

The same process will follow to determine fixed decimal properties in the excel file. Again there are several steps to follow.

1) Our first step is to open the excel file, click on the menu option which appears on the top of the left, and when you open the menu bar there are several options will get appear.

2) The second step is to click on the options and when u will press on the option a new bar will open and here another course of action will open like this.

3) Our third step is to click on the edit option and again a dialog box will pop up on the screen, head to the interface of Edit Settings, check fixed decimals and enter 3 at places, so when you place any value in the box it will form in a fixed decimal way.

How to enable autocomplete for cell values in Excel file.

This function is also performed in excel through various but the method which we follow here will be as per the above steps.

1) Our first step is to open the excel file, click on the menu option which appears on the top of the left, and when you open the menu bar there are several options will get appear.

2) The second step is to click on the options and when u will press on the option a new bar will open and here another course of action will open like this.

3) Our third step is to click on the edit option and again a dialog box will pop up on the screen, head to the interface of Edit Settings, and we can see Provide a list of content canceled by the ESC key under the Enable Autocomplete for cell values option. 

Congratulations, by following these steps you changed windows file attributes in excel.

You can also find this feature in the latest excel versions 2016/2018/2019 spreadsheet, where you can easily change the properties of excel files.

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