It is 20 years overdue, please find a way to allow me to group my tabs into
folders! It would push excel more towards a relational system like access and
would greatly enhance the ability to organize vast amounts of data. If anyone
knows of an add-in that provides this functionality, please offer a link.

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headly wrote:
It is 20 years overdue, please find a way to allow me to group my tabs into
folders! It would push excel more towards a relational system like access and
would greatly enhance the ability to organize vast amounts of data. If anyone
knows of an add-in that provides this functionality, please offer a link.

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If this is such a complex spreadsheet, why not migrate to Access?

Bill

Why would you need this feature to organize vast amounts of data?

Folders contain files/workbooks..

Files contain worksheets.

One file/workbook is its own "folder" of worksheets.

Perhaps explain what you really want?


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:15:01 -0800, headly
wrote:

It is 20 years overdue, please find a way to allow me to group my tabs into
folders! It would push excel more towards a relational system like access and
would greatly enhance the ability to organize vast amounts of data. If anyone
knows of an add-in that provides this functionality, please offer a link.

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Why move to access when:

No users understand it, steep learning curve imho
All users work in Excel
Requires Office Pro, not Std.

Sincerely,

Glenn H
MS Office Master Instructor NYC

"Bill Sharpe" wrote:

headly wrote:
It is 20 years overdue, please find a way to allow me to group my tabs into
folders! It would push excel more towards a relational system like access and
would greatly enhance the ability to organize vast amounts of data. If anyone
knows of an add-in that provides this functionality, please offer a link.

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suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this
link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
click "I Agree" in the message pane.

http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...lic.excel.misc

There is no "I agree" button in most newsreaders.

If this is such a complex spreadsheet, why not migrate to Access?

Bill
.

headly wrote:
Why move to access when:

No users understand it, steep learning curve imho
All users work in Excel
Requires Office Pro, not Std.

Sincerely,

Glenn H
MS Office Master Instructor NYC

Have to disagree with your first comment. I taught an introductory
computer class at our local community college for many years. Students
learned Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint. Sure, Access is a bit
harder to learn than Excel, but certainly manageable, IMO.

I claim that when you reach a certain point in complexity and size in
Excel it's time to move on to a database program. FileMaker Pro is
easier to learn to use than Access.

IMO MS didn't need to increase the number of rows in Excel beyond 64k.

Bill