Excel Defaults You'll Wish You'd Turned Off Years Ago (+Cheatsheet)

Change 15 Excel default settings, including automatic data conversion, PivotTable layouts, AutoSave, Copilot suggestions, and more. ⬇️ Download the cheatsheet and the example file here: https://bit.ly/defaults26file 👩‍🏫 Become an Excel Expert with my course: https://bit.ly/defaults26course When you install Excel, it arrives with a few hundred decisions already made for you. The zeros disappear from the front of your invoice numbers. Your PivotTables group dates without you asking. The search field takes up half the header covering the file name. Today, we're taking some of those decisions back. I've got thirteen defaults that drive people up the wall, and for each one, the exact setting to change. LEARN MORE =========== 📰 EXCEL NEWSLETTER - join 450K+ subscribers here: https://www.myonlinetraininghub.com/e... 🎯 FOLLOW me on LinkedIn:   / myndatreacy   💬 EXCEL QUESTIONS: Get help on our Excel Forum: https://www.myonlinetraininghub.com/e... ⏲ TIMESTAMPS ============== 0:00 Excel made a few hundred decisions for you 0:30 Stop Excel from rewriting your data 1:50 Silence the green triangles 2:43 The new default font and how to get Calibri back 3:46 Make your reports look polished 4:19 Turn off structured references and get cell refs back 5:03 Why AutoSave can quietly ruin your original file 6:15 Set your PivotTable layout once and never redo it 7:20 Stop PivotTables from ruining your column widths 8:05 Stop dates grouping automatically in PivotTables 8:29 The clipboard trick almost nobody uses 10:01 Skip the Start screen and open straight to a sheet 10:32 Stop Excel files opening in your browser 11:08 Turn off Copilot's formula suggestions 11:49 Reclaim the space that search box steals 12:24 See file extensions again 13:04 The other half of working faster in Excel #Excel #ExcelSettings #ExcelTutorial