Excel tutorials, functions and advanced formula examples
How to use PV function in Excel to calculate present value
Weather you are thinking about buying an insurance annuity or putting some money in a saving account, you are wondering - is that a good deal? To know it for sure, you need to find the present value of an investment. For this, Microsoft Excel provides the PV function. Continue reading
How to calculate present value of annuity in Excel: formula and calculator
If offered a choice to receive a certain sum of money right now or defer the payment into the future, which would you choose? For most of us, taking money now is a natural instinct. In the financial world, this is explained by the time value of money concept. Continue reading
How to change case in Google Sheets: UPPER, lower, Capitalize Each Word, Sentence case, tOGGLE
Changing text case in Google Sheets may seem an intricate task as there is no such option in the standard menu. Even so, the task is very much resolvable. In this blog post, I share different ways to capitalize your words or turn them into lowercase, uppercase, and sentence case. Continue reading
How to make and use Excel data entry form
When it comes to inputting information in Excel spreadsheets, most people do it the traditional way - cell by cell, row by row. To make the process more use-friendly and less time-consuming, you can use a special data entry form. Continue reading
WHAT TO ENTER macro – the most useful helper in Shared Email Templates
Let’s continue exploring Shared Email Templates and get acquainted with its best macro - WHAT TO ENTER. You’ll see how to set it up to make your Outlook routine correspondence quicker and easier. Continue reading
Video: how to enable formulas built by the Combine Sheets add-on
If you're about to pull data from multiple Google sheets into one using our Combine Sheets add-on, you will most likely try to get the result as a formula to keep it in-sync with the original tables. This video features 2 important steps you have to take before that formula starts working for you. Continue reading
Using LET function in Excel with formula examples
If you work with lengthy formulas in Excel, then you are certainly familiar with the idea of named ranges that make complex formulas easier to read. And now, Microsoft is making a step further and allows assigning names to calculations and values directly in a formula. Continue reading
How to find and fix broken links in Excel
Excel cells may often link to other workbooks to pull relevant information from there. When a source workbook gets deleted, relocated, or damaged, external references to that file break down and your formulas start returning errors. Obviously, to fix the formulas, you need to find broken links. Continue reading
Video: how to pull data from other Google sheets into one table
Today's video features the easiest way to combine numerous Google sheets into one. Combine Sheets add-on brings data from different documents and common columns together, keeps your formatting, and automatically supplies the resulting table with the up-to-date info from the source sheets. Continue reading
How to find and remove external links in Excel
External links, or external references, are a very common practice in Excel. After completing a particular task, however, you may want to find and probably break those links. Continue reading
How to create Outlook drafts with attachments and use them as email templates
This guide shows one more handy method of sending attachments in Outlook on the basis of Shared Email Templates. Continue reading
Set up dependent drop-down list for multiple rows in Excel
The introduction of dynamic arrays has made our lives as Excel users a lot easier. Among many other things, they significantly simplify the creation of dynamic drop down lists that you can copy across multiple rows. Continue reading
How to use Outlook drafts as email templates
Learn how to create drafts in Outlook and remove or restore them if necessary. Also, you’ll see the way to turn your drafts into templates to ease and hasten your Outlook correspondence. Continue reading
Excel FV function to calculate future value
Building your personal and corporate finances requires thorough planning. One of the most important factors of success is understanding how much an investment made today will grow to in the future. That is called the future value of investment, and this tutorial will teach you how to calculate it in Excel. Continue reading
Video series: 3 quick ways to merge multiple Google sheets
There's a perfect solution we all seek to combine data from multiple sheets: open the table, make 3 mouse clicks at most, and get the exact desired result without any extra tools or adjustments. But until there's an AI like in movies, we have to use other software at hands. Today I will show you 3 powerful add-ons that will help you combine several Google sheets into one. Continue reading
Attach a file from URL to Outlook email messages
Here is one more post continuing the topic of how to attach files to email messages in Outlook. Let’s discuss what steps we need to take in order to attach a file from URL and how exactly it works in Shared Email Templates add-in. Continue reading
5 ways to do VLOOKUP in Excel - which is fastest?
If your tables have only a few dozen rows, then most likely any method will be fast enough, and you won't notice the difference. But if the number of rows in your tables is measured in thousands, the correct choice of the function is crucial - the difference in performance can be more than 10 times! Continue reading
Excel RATE function: formula examples to calculate interest rate
Financial decisions are important part of business strategy and planning. In everyday life, we also have quite a lot of financial decisions to make. For such scenarios, Excel provides the RATE function that will help you calculate an interest rate for a specific period. Continue reading
Attach SharePoint files to Outlook email using Shared Email Templates
The current blog post is devoted to attaching SharePoint files to an Outlook email. I will also describe how to apply a special macro in Shared Email Templates for Outlook and use it within your team templates. Continue reading
How to attach OneDrive file to Outlook emails using Shared Email Templates
This is a short guide on how to quickly attach a OneDrive file to your Outlook email using a macro in Shared Email Templates for Outlook. Continue reading
