How to Show Formulas in excel

Don’t you hate it when you are working on an inherited model and there are so many formulas you need to go through to understand the workings of the model? Yeah, I also hate when that happens.  It could be such a pain having to enter every single cell in excel to audit the formulas. Thankfully, excel allows an overview of all formulas in a worksheet if you know the right key combination. In today’s post, we would take you through how to see all formulas in a worksheet in a single view.

Show all Formulas in a Worksheet

As already established above, knowing how to show all formulas in a single view could help you save time understanding a model. All you need to achieve this is a simple combination of two keys. We would show you in two simple steps below:

Step 1: Press Ctrl + ` to display all formulas in the worksheet you are working on.

Show Formulas Step1

Step 2: To hide all formulas, simply press the same combination Ctrl + ` again

Using the Formula tab

In case you cant find the grave accent key ( ` ) on your keyboard, you can achieve the same result by using the formula tab. To do this, navigate to the formula tab and click Show Formulas

Click Show Formula

Result: You can see all the formulas at a glance

Click Show Formula 2

To hide all formulas, simply click the same show formula and your worksheet reverts to normal.

Show Formulas Step3

That’s all folks, remember to save yourself some time when auditing formulas in a model by using this hack.

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