Reduce Time
in Excel by
80%

Introducing Boost

Boost

Boost is an all-in-one suite of
time-saving keyboard shortcuts, formatting, and auditing tools designed specifically for people who build financial models in Excel.

View the short video to learn more about how Boost’s powerful features can turbocharge your time in Excel.

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Pro vs. Lite: What's the Difference?

BoostPro and BoostLite Version Features

Available in Lite and Pro versions, Boost is designed to
turbo-charge speed and efficiency when building financial models. Among its time-saving features, BoostPro is the only commercially available Excel add-in that offers critical undo functionality. The chart below is a full list of version features:

Features
Undo any Boost Action
Autocolor on Entry
Origin Cells is Editable in Power Precedents / Dependents
Retention of Excel 2003 ALT Keystrokes in Excel 2007/10
Phone Support
Excel 2003 Menu Embedded in Excel 2007/10 Ribbon
Increase / Decrease Font Size
Zoom In/Out
Increase / Decrease Decimal
Number Format Cycle
Power Precedents / Dependents
Power Right / Down Fill
Autocolor Selection / Sheet / Workbook
Shortcut Manager
Paste Exact Formulas
Paste Exact Transpose
Error Wrap
Power Group
Power Paintbrush
Shift Decimal Left/Right
Date Format Cycle
Currency Format Cycle
Percent Format Cycle
Binary Format Cycle
Multiple Format Cycle
Leader Dot Cycle
Center Cycle
Year Format Cycle
Underline Cycle
Font Color Cycle
Blue/Black Cycle
Fill Color Cycle
Autocolor Cycle
No Autocolor Cycle
Anchor ($A$1) Cycle
Border Cycles
Next / Previous Worksheet Loop
Go To First / Last Worksheet
Go To Max / Min Value
Text Wrap Cycle
Letter Case Cycle
Bullet / Numbered List Cycle
Horizontal Alignment Cycle
Vertical Alignment Cycle
Indent Cycle
Toggle gridlines
Disable nuisance keys like F1
Comment Manager
Shortcut Manager
Print Shortcuts to PDF
Settings Manager
Column Width Cycle
Row Height Cycle
Expand all Columns / Rows
Group all Columns / Rows

Lite
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA

Features

View the Full Boost Datasheet

1

The Excel 2003 Menu is Back!
Pro Only | Excel's menu-based layout is gone from Excel 2007 and 2010, in favor of what was supposed to be a more intuitive ribbon. Many Excel users still prefer the old menu layout so we brought it back!
Unlike other add-ins on the market, Boost even retains all of the 2003 alt keystrokes.
2

Power Precedents & Dependents
Long Excel formulas can be very difficult to understand.
Boost's Power Precedents & Dependents allows you to break apart a long formula and navigate across the precedent and dependent cells dramatically enhancing Excel's built-in auditing capability.
3

Autocolor
So you're building a model and you want cell inputs to be formatted BLUE, formulas formatted BLACK, references formatted GREEN, and links formatted RED.
With Boost's Autocolor feature, just select the range of cells (or even an entire worksheet or workbook), hit a shortcut key, and you're done.
4
We don't format. We cycle.
Attach your most commonly used number formats to keyboard shortcuts and cycle rapidly through the different font and color schemes. Boost cycles include:
- Number Formats
- Borders
- Cell Alignment/Indent
- Date
- Column Width/Row Height
5

Shortcut Manager
Assign custom shortcut keys to routine tasks in Excel, such as shifting decimals left or right, increasing or decreasing font sizes, cycling through various colors and fills, and much much more.
The shortcut manager is very intuitive. Want to assign a shortcut? Simply select the task from the shortcut manager, type the shortcut, and you're done!
6

Power Fill Right
You no longer need to highlight destination columns before filling
or pasting formulas and values
into the area.

Boost just knows when to stop.
7

Undo
Pro Only | Perhaps the most powerful Boost feature is the ability to undo any action.
Unlike other Excel add-ins, any Boost action (like autocolor, border cycle, power right fill, etc.) can be undone.

That means that if you make a mistake, you won't have a panic attack, you'll just hit Ctrl Z.
8

Autocolor on Entry
Pro Only | Boost will automatically format cells based on your custom color preferences as you type.
9

Comment
Manager
Boost's comment manager automatically fixes poorly formatted comments.
In addition, the comment
manager can find and delete
any empty comments.
10

Disable
Nuisance Keys
If you find yourself accidentally hitting the F1 key often, forcing you to wait as Microsoft's Help Utility slowly opens, you are not alone.
While some have resorted to literally "popping off" the F1 key, Boost has a more elegant solution: disabling it.
11

Borders
Excel's native border shortcuts are pretty limited, and users are forced to either memorize very long shortcut keys or use the mouse to apply desired border formats.
Boost's borders cycles enables users to apply virtually any border style instantly without using the mouse.
12

Excel's Paintbrush. On Steroids.
Does the model you're working have special formats that you need to use over and over again?
Capture and store various cell formats and then apply to any other cells anytime using a custom keystroke.
13

Zoom In/
Zoom Out
With Boost, you can easily zoom in and out, increase and decrease text size, decimal places, and more, without relying on the mouse.
14

Power Hide
If you have rows or columns that you want to hide, best practice in modeling is to group them, rather than outright hiding them.
Boost's 'Power Hide' scours your entire workbook and converts any hidden rows and columns by grouping them.
15

Workbook Navigation
Toggling back and forth between two distant tabs in a large workbook can be time consuming.
Boost's workbook navigation tools speed up this process by letting users "loop" from one end of a workbook to the other.

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