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Why RefTreeAnalyser?
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Easily navigate the reference tree
The formula auditing capabilities of Excel are limited in that they
display a bunch of arrows from the current cell to its dependents and/or
precedents. Navigating these arrows is relatively hard to do, especially
if there are more than just one off-sheet reference and the combination
of workbookname and sheetname is long (you're unable to see the cell
addresses):
Moreover, the dialog shows all individual cells, rather than grouping
contiguous ranges of cells.
RefTreeAnalyser does a much better job here:
The RefTreeAnalyser greatly eases the navigation of dependents and
precedents. You simply click on a found reference in a simple tree-like
structured view and the accompanying cell or range of cells is selected.
If you prefer a more visual way of detecting precedents, try the
visualize option:
Find out what your objects are doing
It is hard to see which cells are used by objects in Excel.
RefTreeAnalyser helps you with this:
Quickly see what cells are referred to
Although Excel does enable you to see what cells precede your cell
and/or what cells use the current cell, getting an overview of them is
quite hard. See the example below...
RefTreeAnalyser greatly simplifies this as well: it shows one
tree-like overview of all cells that depend on the active cell and all
cells that precede the current cell (and both may go up to 5 levels deep
down/up the dependency tree!). The screenshot below shows what the same
analysis looks like with RefTreeAnalyser:
RefTreeAnalyser also scans your on-sheet objects (such as charts,
pivot tables, form controls, ...). If it finds your analysed cell is
within their source range it will show that object in the dependents
list too, in black font (not shown in the screen shots here). If your
cell contains data validation formulas or conditional formatting
formulas, those will be analysed for precedents or dependents too.
Table of Content
Documenting spreadsheets is hard work. Let RefTreeAnalyser be of help and have it generate a complete Table Of Content for you, including:
- Worksheets
- Tables
- Charts
- Pivot tables
- Controls
Locate all circular references
Excel does detect if a workbook contains circular references, but
only enables you to navigate one. The RefTreeAnalyser detects all your
circular references and shows them to you in one -easy to navigate-
treeview. hover your mouse over the screenshot below for a short
animated gif.
Get insight in your workbook structure
RefTreeAnalyser allows you to get a view on which worksheets in your
workbook are using data from what other worksheets. Note that the arrows
related to the blue colored worksheet are highlighted in color:
If you click any of the sheet boxes you get detailed information
about the sheet:
Generate a report quickly
Excel's formula auditing tools do not have any reporting options.
The RefTreeAnalyser comes with a Report option which writes the
current analysis to a new worksheet in your workbook. The precedents report may
look like this:
And the Formula report looks like this:
