How To Make Your Sheets Look Professional: Adding Check Marks

How To Make Your Sheets Look Professional: Adding Check Marks

Making your sheets in Excel look professional may seem like a tedious and unnecessary task, but it is essential to have visually appealing Excel sheets in order to build credibility with your audience, attract people to your data, and give your investors confidence that the information you are conveying within the sheet is trustworthy and reliable.

What is the Check Mark symbol used for on Excel?

There are certain functions and shortcuts that you can use in Excel to make your sheets look professional and facilitate the editing process to make it simple and efficient. This particular blog will cover how to add checkmarks to Excel sheets. This is one of the simplest ways to showcase to your audience what tasks have been completed and which tasks still need to be worked on or what is correct and incorrect in an Excel sheet. Using this function to add checkmarks to your sheets will add a visually appealing aspect to your sheet and will allow for effective communication to those that come into contact with your Excel sheets.

Insert Tab > Symbols Group > Click The Check Symbol

How is it used in real estate?

Here at Top Shelf Models, we use the check symbol in every financial model we create. We use the symbol in our Error Check Tab. The Error Check Tab in our financial models is an output tab that is used as a quick way to see if there is an issue within the model. The green checks indicate that nothing is awry, while red X’s mean that something is incorrect and should be given a second look. We chose to design our models this way to enhance our clients’ experience by notifying them immediately if there was something wrong with their financial model.

Conclusion

The checkmarks we use in our models allow our clients to see a visual representation of whether or not there are errors in the formulations within their financial models. Using the check symbol within your personal Excel sheets will allow you to accomplish the same thing. You will be able to give your audience a visual way to understand your data and facilitate the understanding of your data. Whether you use the check symbol to showcase what is correct or incorrect or what tasks have been completed or not completed, the check symbol will help your Excel sheets look more credible and professional.

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About the Author

Brittany Martin is TSM’s Vice President who has developed real estate financial models for an extensive range of property types. She specializes in land, hotel, and storage models. Please reach out to her if you have any questions on Adding Check Marks or if she can help you with your modeling needs.