And once you are loaded with all the basics of Microsoft Excel, it’s important for you to master the functions. You must have heard a number of times that the power of Excel lies in its inbuilt functions and flexibility to create formulas as per your need and requirement. One thing which I love the most about Microsoft TEAM that they keep on introducing new functions from time to time....
Working with excel tables can significantly improve your spreadsheet solutions. A total row is one very beneficial table feature that will help you see quick summaries of the columns in your table such as counts, sums, and averages. The totals in the total row are generated with SUBTOTAL formulas and will automatically update when any information in the table is added or updated. When you create a new Excel table the total row is disabled and you will need to enable this useful feature for each table....
A common technique used in Excel is to format zero values as blanks. This can help improve the readability and comprehensibility of the spreadsheet. It’s difficult to quickly identify which cells contain zero values when you have a lot of data. When you signify zero values as blanks, it gives you a visual indication and makes it simpler to spot patterns in the data. A zero value in your data might also mean that no data exists....
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Example Generic Formula What It Does This formula will return the percent of the year completed for a given date. How It Works The YEARFRAC function will take two dates and return the fraction of the year between them. We will use this function with the our given date and the previous December 31st date to get the desired fraction of the year. We can determine what the previous December 31st date is by using the DATE and YEAR functions....
The Status Bar is the area at the very bottom in Excel where various information about the current mode or any special keys that are engaged can be seen. You can also select different worksheet views and zoom in and out on the worksheet from the status bar. The Status Bar.
Sorting data is usually a key component of any data analysis. It can help you organize your data, spot trends, or find the minimum and maximum values. However, there might be instances where you need to unsort your data and remove any previous ordering! Randomizing the order of a list can be useful if you need to randomly select a sample in your data. Get your copy of the example workbook used in this post and follow along!...
GUID stands for Globally Unique Identifier, but it might also be referred to as a UUID which stands for Universally Unique Identifier. These are the same thing. A GUID is a 32-character code consisting of both numbers and letters that are commonly used to identify items in a database. GUIDs are generated randomly, but the probability of duplicating a randomly generated GUID is so infinitesimally small that you can be sure that it will be unique....
Formatting is key to making your Excel workbooks look good! However, too much formatting can become a distraction. When this occurs, you may need to reset all of your format options on the sheet and begin again. Any format that has been applied such as bold font, increased font size, borders, strikethrough, number formats, date formats, and cell fill color will need to be removed before you start over! How can you reset all the format options to their original defaults?...
FIND(“@”,Email) will return the location of the “@” character in the email address. In our example FIND(“@”,”jim.smith@breadmakers.com”) returns 10 since the “@” symbol is the 10th character in the email address. The difference between these two will then give us the total character count of all the characters after the “@” symbol. This is the total character count of the domain (let’s call this N). In our example this is 25-10 = 15....
How to Install the Add-In? The add-in is only available for Excel 2016, so if you don’t have this version you will need to upgrade before you can install it. If you do have Excel 2016 you can install it from here. Get The Add-In Here Follow the link above and then click on the Add button. Then click on Open in Excel. You will then need to add this to your trusted add-ins....
You might use them to indicate a task has been completed or a quality control test has passed. In this post, I will show you 15 ways to add checkmarks into your Microsoft Excel workbooks. Whatever your use case, there is sure to be a method that will work for you! Video Tutorial Insert a Checkmark Symbol You can insert a checkmark from the Insert tab in the ribbon using the Symbol command....
When you copy or cut data in Excel, that data is temporarily stored on the clipboard. The Excel clipboard will also show data from other programs that you copy or cut. This allows you to paste the stored data later on and will even give you access to more than the last item copied. This way, you can copy multiple items before pasting them. The clipboard will save all the items you’ve cut or copied even when it’s closed....
It’s a popular way to visualize your data! While colored cells are a great way to highlight data to quickly grab someone’s attention, they are not a great way to store data. Unfortunately, a lot of users will color a cell to indicate some value instead of creating another data point with the value. For example, they might color a cell green to indicate an item is approved instead of creating another data point with the text Approved....
Example Generic Formula What It Does This formula will return the percent of the month completed for a given date. How It Works DAY(Date) will return the day part of the given Date. In our example DAY(“2017-09-10”) returns a value of 10. EOMONTH(Date,N) will return the last date in the month which is N number of months before or after the Date. If N is 0 then this will be the last date in the same month as the given Date....
A worksheet is a collection of cells where all your data and formulas are stored. Each cell can contain either data (numeric or text) or a formula. Cells are arranged in rows and columns in the workbook. Rows are labelled with numbers going from 1 at the very top to 1,048,576 at the very bottom. Columns are labelled with letters going left to right starting with A and going to XFD....
What’s so great about these files? Smaller File Sizes – I usually see about 30% reduction in file size when compared to xlsx or xlsm type files.Supports VBA/Macros – similar to xlsm and xls files the xlsb type is also VBA/macro enabled.Open and Save Quicker – computers speak binary, so it makes sense that they will be able to read and write these much quicker since it’s already in their language and they don’t need to translate it first....
To use the data entry form you will need your data to be in certain format. Step 1: Adding the data entry form to the Quick Access Toolbar. Open the quick access toolbar options menu. Add the Form to your quick access toolbar. Step 2: Using the data entry form. Now we can use the data entry form. Scrolling through your data Adding a new record Deleting an existing record....
Excel has a great built in function called SUBSTITUTE which allows you to find one bit of text within another text string and substitute it for another bit of text. Copy and paste this table into cell A1 in Excel In the above example we can use the SUBSTITUTE function to replace all instances of apples with cookies using the following formula. Copy and paste this table into cell A1 in Excel Now if we also want to replace bananas with chocolate we could do this by using a nested SUBSTITUTE formula....
