Choosing Preferences for Error Checking

Excel can automatically identify various errors in your formulas. To choose which errors Excel marks, you set the error-checking preferences. Choose Excel images Preferences or press Cmd+, (Cmd and the comma key) to display the Excel Preferences dialog box, and then click the Error Checking icon in the Formulas and Lists area to display the Error Checking pane (see Figure 5–5).

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Figure 5–5. In the Error Checking pane of the Excel Preferences dialog box, choose whether to use background error checking and decide ...

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