Formatting headers and footers in Excel 2011 for Mac adds a distinctive appearance to your printed worksheets. You can also easily include important date and time information. You can work with headers and footers in Page Layout view by choosing View→Page Layout or clicking the Page Layout button in the Layout tab of the Office 2011 for Mac Ribbon.
Easily Freeze Titles in Microsoft Excel. By Avantix Learning Team Updated:October 30, 2019. Applies to: Microsoft® Excel® 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019 and 365 (Windows) As many Excel worksheets can become quite large, it can be useful to freeze row and column headings so that they are locked in place when you scroll through your worksheet.
Entering a header or footer on your Excel 2011 for Mac worksheet
Follow these steps to add a header or footer:
Move the cursor over the white space near the top of a page to add or format a header. Similarly, you can move the cursor over the white space near the bottom of a page to add or format a footer.
A prompt appears, telling you to double-click if you want to add a header (or footer).
Double-click in the white space.
Headers and footers are divided into three distinct regions. You’re in the left, right, or center region, depending on where you double-click.
Type your header or footer in the text provided.
Click the Close button or press Esc on your keyboard to exit the Header/Footer dialog.
Formatting your headers and footers in Excel 2011 for Mac
When you’re entering or editing a header or footer, you can use the Header and Footer toolbar buttons to make things fancy.
You can combine codes with text. For example, use Insert Page Number and Insert Number of Pages with additional text like this: Page &[Page] of &[Pages] to print “Page # of #”.
If you prefer the retro look of the old Header/Footer pane from previous versions of Excel, you can still access it by choosing File→Page Setup and then clicking the Header/Footer tab; you can also choose View→Header and Footer.
When sorting your Excel tables and worksheets in Office 2011 for Mac, you’re likely to use ascending and descending sort orders most often. The quick way to sort a table or data range is to select a cell in the column you want to sort. Then go to the Ribbon’s Data tab, find the Sort and Filter group, and click Sort. The first time you click this button, the sort is lowest to highest or alphabetical. Click the button again to sort highest to lowest or reverse alphabetically.
Don’t click the column letter before sorting. If you do, the sort will be applied only to the contents of the column, not the entire table or data range.
After 27 years, Microsoft changed the name of this feature from AutoFilter to just Filter? R.I.P., AutoFilter. The Filter feature places a button to the right of each cell in the header row of a table or data range. Filter is turned on by default when you make a table, and you can see these buttons in the header row of a table. You can toggle Filter on or off by pressing Command-Shift-F. When you click the Filter button in a column header, the Filter dialog displays. The column header label is the title of the dialog. Filter lets you sort and filter.
Sorting data in Excel tables
The upper portion of the Filter dialog is for sorting:
Ascending: Click this button to sort the column from lowest to highest or alphabetically.
Descending: Click this button to sort the column from highest to lowest, or reverse alphabetically.
By Color: If you have applied color formats to a table, you can use this pop-up menu to sort by cell color or font color.
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Filtering data in Excel tables
Beneath the Sort functionality is the Filter section of the Filter dialog. Usually, you know what you’re looking for in a column, so the first thing to do is either type what you want in the search filter or choose it from the Choose One pop-up menu and form field. Starting at the top of the Filter options you can choose:
Header Row Class Name
By Color: Show records in your column that match the cell color, font color, or cell icon. If you haven’t applied colors or conditional formatting, this pop-up menu is inactive.
Choose One: Select a criterion from this pop-up menu. Then, in the pop-up menu to the right, you can select a record from the column that matches the set of conditions.
Check boxes: You can select and deselect these boxes to display only rows that match the selected items.
Clear Filter button: Removes all criteria from the entire Filter dialog so that no filter or sorting is performed.