Moments D640: Removing Objects

Okay.  I'll admit it.  I'm an Excel geek.  Yes.  That's right.  Microsoft Excel.  I have even had a friend once create a fake booklet of "Excel for Dummies" with me on the cover dressed up as a teacher.

Seriously.  I know.  It's bad.  Please.  Stop laughing.

Between work and school, I do much in the world of Excel and for the most part, I know a lot of short cuts and tricks that are obscure and rarely helpful.

But once in awhile, I am stumped and I need to use the {gasp} help feature built into the program.

Today, I found myself wondering how to remove objects (images, check boxes, etc.) imported into a spreadsheet that were unnecessary in my file.  Sure you can delete them manually, but what the heck do you do if there are hundreds of objects to deal with?  Manually delete them all?  No way.  There had to be an easier way.  The help feature failed me.  Really?  Was it not possible?  No.  That couldn't be.

And then I found it.  Within seconds of googling "remove objects from Excel spreadsheet" I found this.  Three seconds later all 200+ objects in my spreadsheet vanished.

BRILLIANT!  Tons of time saved by that quick stroke of keys.

How on earth did I live without the wonderous amounts of random, rarely used information found online?

Now I know how to remove objects from a spreadsheet.  It made my day and that knowledge allows me to dust off my geek badge a touch.  That makes me smile.

Moments being frustrated by a silly problem.

Moments finding an easy solution and sharing it with the world.