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Manage sheets in a workbook from one panel in Excel

Ampler’s Sheets panel lets you navigate, reorder, rename, recolour, and hide sheets from one place — far quicker than working the sheet tabs at the bottom.

Quick answer: Click Sheets on the Ampler ribbon, then select a sheet to navigate to it, drag to reorder, and edit each sheet’s name, visibility, and colour.

How to use it

Managing sheets from the Sheets panel in Excel with Ampler

Navigate, reorder, rename, recolour, and hide sheets from the panel.

  1. Click Sheets on the Ampler ribbon.
  2. Select a sheet to navigate to it, or drag sheets to rearrange the workbook.
  3. Edit each sheet’s name, visibility, and colour from the panel.

Everything about the workbook’s sheets is managed in one panel rather than through the tabs at the bottom.

Keyboard shortcut

Sheets has no default shortcut. To assign one, open the Settings dropdown on the Ampler ribbon, choose Shortcuts, click Set shortcut on the function, and press your key combination.

Why use it

A model with many sheets is awkward to manage from the tab strip — reordering, renaming, and hiding are all fiddly. The Sheets panel puts navigation and sheet management in one place, so a large workbook is easy to organise and move around.

How consultants use it

A complex model is often dozens of sheets, and keeping them ordered, named, and colour-coded is part of a professional build. Three habits apply:

  • A clear sheet structure: sheets are ordered and named so the model is easy to follow.
  • Colour-coded sections: inputs, calculations, and outputs are distinguished by tab colour.
  • Navigate a big model fast: the panel jumps straight to any sheet.

The Sheets panel keeps a large model organised and navigable.

Tips & best practices

  • Colour-code sheets by role — inputs, calculations, outputs.
  • Hide working sheets that shouldn’t travel with the model.
  • Use the panel to jump around a large workbook quickly.

Availability

Included in Ampler for Excel and the Ampler Suite, on Windows desktop Excel.

Frequently asked questions

How do you reorder sheets in Excel quickly?

Click Sheets on the Ampler ribbon and drag the sheets to rearrange the workbook from the panel.

How do you rename or recolour sheets in Excel?

From the Ampler Sheets panel you can edit each sheet’s name, visibility, and colour in one place.

How do you navigate a workbook with many sheets?

Use the Ampler Sheets panel to select and jump straight to any sheet.

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