Excel’s gridline secrets 👀

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Excel's Gridline Secrets 🤫

It’s the one thing in Excel most of us stopped noticing years ago: gridlines.

But there’s more to gridlines than meets the eye. Learn how to wield ‘em, and you can elevate your spreadsheets from standard to ✨ sublime. ✨

Here are two under-the-radar gridline tips: 

1) They’re optional. 

To remove gridlines, just head to the View tab and uncheck the Gridlines box. 

This is clutch for copying your spreadsheet into a presentation or email. The gridline-free version looks way cleaner and more polished! 

2) They can change colors. 

Gridlines don’t have to be gray—you can change them to any color. Say we want pink gridlines to match company branding: 

One last thing! Even if you keep gridlines visible on screen, you can control whether they show up when you print. Just go to Page Layout > Sheet Options > Gridlines, and toggle “Print” on and off. 😉

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The Case for Working Backwards 

Stop me if this sounds familiar: Despite crushing it at work, staying late, and delivering everything early, you still feel like that promotion is out of reach. 🫠 What gives? 

It might be because you’re using only half the strategy needed for career growth. Let me explain! 

The first method—the one you’re (probably) using—is the Theory of Action. It’s the traditional approach where you focus on specific steps to achieve a goal.  

But the second method you’re missing? The Theory of Change. This is where you investigate the underlying conditions and systems that actually create your desired outcome. 

Let’s go back to our promotion example. The Theory of Action has you working wild hours and saying yes to more projects. But the Theory of Change has you step back to ask: 

• What actually drives promotions in your company? 

• What behaviors or skills do all those who get promoted have?

• Who are the decision-makers, and what do they value beyond performance?  

Maybe after investigating, you discover that everyone who got promoted last year had strong cross-department relationships. Or that decisions happened during budget planning in Q4. Or that your VP cares more about automated, time-saving Excel spreadsheets than seeing people at their desks after 6 PM. 👀

Simply put: The Theory of Change nudges you to work backwards first before throwing yourself into effort. By asking “What conditions create success?” before “What should I work on?” you help prevent your energy from being wasted. 

And that’s something I can always get behind. 💫

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Stay Exceling,

Kat