From the course: Excel 2016: Tips and Tricks

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Zoom in and out quickly

Zoom in and out quickly

From the course: Excel 2016: Tips and Tricks

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Zoom in and out quickly

- [Voiceover] As you work with Excel data, there will be times when you want to zoom in on the data, make it larger on your screen, perhaps somebody's looking over your shoulder in the good sense and needs to see this larger than it currently is. At other times, you might want to zoom back to see more of the worksheet. And in the lower right-hand corner, there certainly is a standard way to do this. There's a slider bar, and you've got to put the mouse right on that bar, move it left or right to zoom in and out. And that's reasonably fast. To the right you see a percentage number, usually you don't care about that too much, but sometimes you use it as a reference point to zoom in and zoom out. But you do have to position the mouse. Now, with no concern whatsoever as to where the mouse is pointing, even up on at the menu or up at the very top of your screen, if you hold down the Ctrl key and use the mouse wheel, you will zoom in or out as needed. Simply Ctrl with the mouse wheel. As…

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