It is the customer on the phone again, she wants to know what products we have. How cool would it be if we can send her a spreadsheet with all the products neatly listed in a table and she can use filters to find what she likes. Alas, we end up sending a biggish PDF brochure that is both difficult to make and maintain. Well, not any more. Today we will learn a very useful and fun trick in Excel. We will create a product catalog using Excel that you can send to your clients or boss (and impress them). We will create something like this: Step one: Set up the product catalog in Excel Spreadsheet This is a simple step. ![]() ![]() ![]() Price List Template - Download a free printable price list template that you can customize using Excel. For products and services. “Price” is the very first thing a customer refers to before buying any product or service. Price is basically the amount of money one is expected to shell out in order to purchase the product/service. Sellers/Vendors mostly create a list of product/service being offered by them to help buyers in easier and faster decision making. ![]() Define a table structure for your product catalog. For our example – Supurr Market, I have chosen only one column, with the images of various Cats the shop sells. But you can add more columns like size, age, price, features etc. • Now, in such a way that you can fit in the images in cells. • And of your products neatly in the cells. • Also, just type the product name in the cells where you have kept the images. Step two: Adjust image properties so that they can be filtered We will finish this step before you can snap your fingers. Just select all the images, right click and select Format picture (in Excel 2007, you need to select ‘size & properties’) and go to “properties” tab. Here change the option to “Move and size with cells” from whatever it is earlier. Step three: Apply data filters so that your product catalog can be filtered Do that. Step four: Time to impress your clients Send the lean and sleek product catalog to your clients. Tell your story elegantly and get some orders. Download the product catalog template workbook [] to download the excel product catalogue workbook. Use it to learn and make your own product catalogs using MS excel. ![]() Do you run a small business? Tell me how you use excel. I think Excel has great potential to manage 90% of small business IT operations. It is simple to and easy to maintain. I want to know how you use excel to manage your small business. Share your experiences and ideas using comments. Learn how you can do the same for charts: PS: Special thanks to Gerald Higgins for telling me about the image properties tip.
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