Quick Access to Your Windows
Calculator From Inside Excel
Since Excel IS a numbers crunching
program, a calculator is often
needed to check that formulas are working correctly or simply to add
some numbers up BEFORE you enter them into your Excel spreadsheet.
Sure, you can use Excel to do this, but sometimes you want to use
your Windows Calculator.
So, every time you want to use your
Windows Calculator, you have to go to your Start button and go to
Programs, then Accessories, then Calculator. What a pain!
Aha......Excel 2000 lets you add the
Windows Calculator to your toolbar inside Excel. And it's simple:
Launch Excel and go to the Tools menu at the top of your screen.
Choose "Customize". In the Customize dialog box , click the
"Commands" tab. Now, under "Categories" click on
Tools. Scroll down through the "Commands" list and locate the
icon that looks like a calculator (it's one of the ones labeled
"Custom"). Drag the icon up to your toolbar and release the
mouse button when you see the black line where you want to put it. Now,
you can simply click the new toolbar icon to open the calculator.
Hang in there!
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