Excel Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) - Recommendation for Setup?

Hey guys,

Anyone have recommendations for the optimal QAT in Excel? Im guessing most of you have: Font color, Fill color, Borders,

Anybody even bother with an Excel QAT? Recommendations appreciated!

Thanks!

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Sil

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I have Save As, Fill Color, Font Color, and AutoColor (Boost shortcut).

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TRowdy

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Having a good one can really make your life easier. I have added a few things that will help you tremendously...

Camera Tool - allows you to quickly take a "picture" of something in excel and paste it into PowerPoint. Unfortunately it always adds a border to the picture, so make sure you remove it
All of the align tools (align center, left, right, top, etc) - Makes taking a group of pictures, graphs, etc and having them all be aligned...huge time saver when adjusting a bunch of stuff on a slide
Best tool of all...Document Location - allows you to quickly highlight the location of a document on a drive and email it to someone as a link

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