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When you open a huge Excel spreadsheet that someone has given you, don't you feel overwhelmed? It's difficult to know where to start. The first few minutes are usually wasted flipping between the tabs, scrolling ridiculously far down or to the right (just in case the creator hid some data out there), failing to notice subtly important column labels, etc. etc.

It would be useful if arrows appeared as you scrolled around, prompting you " --> More data this way -->" or "lookup table below" and the like. Once you activate "Tour Mode", the signs would appear and you'd use the MOUSE to scroll and follow the street signs. (faster than manual keyboarding). The screen would shift right or left or down or up or diagonally to accommodate your wanderings.

For this to work, the creator of the spreadsheet would need to specify a kind of "browsing order" for the spreadsheet, but this could be done with a few mouse clicks (possibly with tour comments added at each location). The hotspot list would be saved with the file.

This is much easier for a user to follow (and for a creator to write) than verbal directions such as "the accumulation data is in cells $C$147 to cell $E$159 on the "Data With Accumulations" tab. That is too verbose, redundant with what's readily visible on the screen, and doesn't communicate the structure the way a visual "guided tour" approach, facilitated by the spreadsheet application itself, would.

Thank you.