Productivity and formatting tools: work smarter and faster

A powerful toolkit packed with time-saving features — from formatting shortcuts to workbook navigation, printing tools, and formula helpers — all designed to speed up your personal workflow

Speed and consistency go hand in hand

Working in Excel isn't just about building reports — it's about doing it efficiently and cleanly. But repetitive tasks like formatting cells, navigating sheets, or adjusting print settings take time and often break consistency. This toolset solves that by giving you fast, standardized controls at your fingertips — helping you do more in less time without sacrificing quality.

Save time on repetitive tasks

Ensure consistent formatting

One-click access to powerful tools

Control various settings, like printing

Each functionality assignable to a keyboard shortcut

Focus on producing insights, not boring manual work

Check out various productivity tools:

Everyday applications

Take a minute to find out how this feature can help you in your everyday challenges:

Imagine preparing a report just hours before a management meeting. You're jumping between sheets, applying formatting, resizing columns, setting print ranges, and checking formula consistency — all manually.

With the productivity toolkit, you use format cycles to style fonts, borders, and fills in seconds. Alignment and number format cycles ensure everything looks clean. You hide unused sheets, adjust print settings, and add footnotes all from one ribbon or using self-assignable shortcuts. What once took 45 minutes is done in under 10 — polished, aligned, and stress-free.

Your department wants to adopt a consistent visual language in Excel workbooks — same fills, same fonts, aligned number formats. But different users apply their own styles, leading to visual inconsistency.

Using the formatting tools and spreading company-agreed settings, everyone can follow the same formatting cycles. Font, border, alignment, and indentation presets make it easy to align styles across users. Now, no matter who builds the report, the outcome looks clean, familiar, and professional — with no time wasted on style reviews.

You're handed a large workbook built by someone else long time ago — full of hidden sheets, inconsistent formatting, leftover unused formulas, and confusing notes. It’s hard to read and even harder to edit.

Our productivity tools let you instantly reveal or hide sheets, remove unneeded footnotes, and cycle through various styles to standardize the workbook. You can quickly add your custom notes for clarity. In minutes, you’ve transformed a messy file into a structured report that’s easy to navigate and then audit.

Smart tools for every reporting challenge

The Productivity and formatting tools combine automation with flexibility — giving you the power to clean, format, and structure your workbooks faster than ever.

Sheet and workbook visibility tools

Quickly show or hide sheets with intelligent controls — perfect for decluttering or finalizing reports.

Fill, Font, Border, and Format cycles

Apply consistent styling with one-click cycles — reducing manual work and aligning files instantly

Alignment, Indentation and Number Format cycles

Easily standardize layout and numerical presentation without adjusting each setting manually

Footnotes

Add, remove, show and hide report footnotes to communicate additional context clearly and consistently

Formula tools

Bulk formula anchoring, IFERROR wraps, sign switches - many tools at your disposal

Custom formatted notes

Replace Excel's built-in notes with professionally styled in-cell notes directly in your workbook

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