Adding Buttons to Help You Stay Organized

Excel buttons are a great way to assign macros to a very visible area on your screen while you are working. The buttons may look very simple, but there is a number of things that you can do with them in order to personalize your experience. We will now go through the things that you can do with the buttons so that you can quickly create your own buttons and start working. Buttons will make your work life much easier, and they will allow you to prepare your Excel work environment is a very personalized way.

Adding a macro button

Adding a new macro button is very easy and something that you will quickly get used to the more time you spend in Excel. From your developer section, click on “Insert” and then click on “Button”. Next, you will have to move your mouse over an area in your spreadsheet in order to form the shape of the button. The button can be as big or as small as you would like it to be, but it is usually best to cover an area of about 6 cells. This is big enough for you to see, but also small enough so that the button won’t interfere with what you see on the worksheet. When you release the left click of your mouse a pop up window will appear in which you will click on “Assign Macro.”

From here, you can choose whether you want to assign an existing macro, create a new macro from scratch, or record a macro.

Add some style to your button

You have almost endless possibilities when it comes to the design of your button. However, before we move on to that, it is best to mention that the purpose of the button is to make your life easier. If you spend too much time making the button look pretty, then you will have waste a lot of time which you could have spent working on your project at work.

If you do decide to give your button some style, you can change the name, shape, color, and text style of your macro. Perhaps the color feature will be the most useful one if you have a number of different macro button on the same spreadsheet. Assigning the buttons different colors will help you to find the right button as soon as you need it, instead of having to read the title of each button.