Save time by creating an Excel workbook workspace

If you're like most of us, you probably work with the same few workbooks every day. You might work with them as a group or separately, but you open these files, individually, most every day and that's inefficient.

You can save a bit of time by saving the files you use every day as a group as follows:

1. Open all the workbooks you want to save as a group.
2. Click the View tab.
3. Click Save Workspace in the Window group.
4. Enter a name for the group, and click Save.

To open the group (all the workbooks in the group), open the group as you would any other file.

Your workbooks are still separate files. You can open and close them individually, as you normally would. However, Excel also saves a reference to the workbooks as a group now, using the xlw extension. It's a simple way to reduce a few keystrokes every day.