How to make it easy to navigate formulas in large and complex software excel spreadsheets

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Software Excel is generally used to construct large and complex spreadsheets which are usually full of multiple worksheets. But however, sometimes for some people the task to calculate the large and complex spreadsheets is quite difficult to navigate, even you by yourself who designed and built the spreadsheets.

Actually, the first step that people need to do is to let alone the track or trace numbers from the spreadsheets along with the values and formulas which are contained inside. This needs to be done as in Software Excel, a large spreadsheet, for example like financial model, there are usually so many different down and across in every of its single page and also the calculations which are normally included of some links to the other sheets in the workbook.

Besides giving so many functional parts within, Software Excel also gives helpful basic functionalities which will help the users to navigate the large and complex spreadsheets formulas. Here you’ll find some common methods that make you easily to navigate the spreadsheets.

  1. You need to use the ‘Go To’ window [ctrl + G] and typing in cell addresses.
  2. Then you need to enter edit mode [ctrl + G] and then type it in cell addresses.
  3. The last method is by using formula auditing to draw arrows to precedent r dependent cells and then make a double click to move back and forth between the same sheets references and ‘Go To’ window to move back and forth between off-sheet references.

By using these functionalities which available in Software Excel, all of the inefficiencies of double mouse clicks will fall well to short of the mark for many users who have large complex spreadsheets. But sometimes the problem is found when trying to check or to understand a formula that you see at the precedents cells. But you just need to jump quickly to the other precedent and back to the original formula that you firstly looked at.


We do know that the process of editing, checking, de-bugging, enhancing and auditing sometimes makes us feel frustration. Since this complaint comes up, Software Excel then try to make an innovation which will make the spreadsheets users hope to be instantly and easily to working with their spreadsheets. Excel Add-ins and software tools that plug into Software Excel is what many spreadsheets users use to help them to easily navigate the complex spreadsheets’ formulas.

Formula Navigator, an add-in, which is created by ‘Spreadsheets Guys’ is very popular now as it makes the spreadsheets users can work easily with their spreadsheets in Software Excel. With unique add-in utilizing, a re-sizeable floating window and hyperlink system, Formula Navigator will help Excel users understanding a formula and able to jump to all of its precedents and dependent cells and the ranges even they are on a different worksheets or a different open workbook.

What you can get from this software excel’s formula navigator is that you are also able to click back to any cell that you looked at before no matter what if the spreadsheets were designed by you or even by someone else. With Formula Navigator all the spreadsheets that usually make spreadsheets users become frustration can be easily to see the logic formula and the links. With this Software Excel’s Formula Navigator users will find no spreadsheets errors but facilitating debugging and will also help you in spreadsheets auditing.

Read the other article that may useful for reading: “The Importance of Cost Accounting”.

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