Hi there,
A question about optimizing sheets from colleagues and exterior firms. I've read a bit on best practices and rules of good tables to increase user-friendliness and reduce the reader's cognitive load. As a practice, I'd like to improve and automate the following example.
The following tender document with measurements: https://imgur.com/ipiCCal
How would you go about optimizing this? What would you change?
Things I believe can be improved, correct me if I'm wrong:
Tips appreciated!
A question about optimizing sheets from colleagues and exterior firms. I've read a bit on best practices and rules of good tables to increase user-friendliness and reduce the reader's cognitive load. As a practice, I'd like to improve and automate the following example.
The following tender document with measurements: https://imgur.com/ipiCCal
How would you go about optimizing this? What would you change?
Things I believe can be improved, correct me if I'm wrong:
- Hierarchy.
- The first column considers numeric Chapters, Sections and Subsections (numbers formatted as text - 1, 1.1, 1.1.1, etc.). It is often used as a reference. Is it good practice to put it like this?
- In the column "Description des traveaux" (description of the works) further indentation is used to create a hierarchy.
- Empty rows are added to improve readability. But, this means it is difficult to format as a table with consequences for hot keys etc. I'd rather remove them and increase readability in another way. (I know how to remove blank rows, but is my thinking correct here?
- Would you use groups instead?
- Summations.
- Every Section is summed up manually with SUM() (e.g. Section 1.7). My guess is this would be more efficient with SUBTOTAL().
- Row 112 ("Montant HT ...") is, again, a manual summation of all Sections.
- On a previous sheet, a manual summary is made of every Section with the total price (for the client). I believe this can be done faster with PivotTables?
- ...?
Tips appreciated!
