'Excel Tips and How-to' category archive, page 14
Why use dollar sign ($) in Excel formulas - absolute and relative cell references
When writing an Excel formula, $ sign in cell references confuses many users. But the explanation is very simple. The dollar sign in an Excel cell reference serves just one purpose - it tells Excel whether to change or not to change the reference when the formula is copied to other cells. And this short tutorial provides full details about this great feature. Continue reading
How to create a bar graph in Excel
In this tutorial, you will learn how to make a bar graph in Excel, how to have values sorted automatically descending or ascending, how to create a bar chart in Excel with negative values, how to change the bar width and colors, and much more. Continue reading
ExcelAnalyzer - Excel audit and analysis software
From this article you'll learn about ExcelAnalyzer – a powerful Excel audit software that makes managing spreadsheet risk fun and easy. Find out how to get each and every detail about your workbook in 1 report and correct all possible spreadsheet issues really quickly. At the end of the post you'll find the download details for ExcelAnalyzer to make sure it's really worth reading such a long overview ;). Continue reading
How to create a Pie chart in Excel
In this Excel pie chart tutorial, you will learn how to make a pie chart in Excel, add or remove the legend, label your pie graph, show percentages, explode or rotate a pie chart, and much more. Continue reading
Make a chart in Excel from two or more different sheets
The tutorial demonstrates how to make charts in Excel from multiple sheets, and how to customize and edit such graphs. Continue reading
Customizing Excel charts: add chart title, axes, legend, data labels and more
The tutorial shows how to create and customize graphs in Excel: add a chart title, change the way that axes are displayed, format the chart legend, add data labels, and more. Continue reading
How to create a chart (graph) in Excel and save it as template
The tutorial explains the Excel charts basics and provides the detailed guidance on how tou will also learn how to combine two chart types, save a graph as chart template, change the default chart type, resize and move the graph. Continue reading
Using REPLACE and SUBSTITUTE functions in Excel - formula examples
The tutorial explains the Excel REPLACE and SUBSTITUTE functions with examples of uses. See how to use the REPLACE function with text strings, numbers and dates, and how to nest several REPLACE or SUBSTITUTE functions within one formula. Continue reading
Excel FIND and SEARCH functions with formula examples
The tutorial explains the syntax of the Excel FIND and SEARCH functions and provides formula examples of advanced non-trivial uses. Continue reading
How to use Find and Replace in Excel most efficiently
In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Find and Replace in Excel to search for specific data in a worksheet or workbook and what you can do with those cells after finding them. We will also explore the advanced features of Excel search such as wildcards, finding cells with formulas or specified formatting, find and replace in all open workbooks and more. Continue reading
Calculating moving average in Excel
In this short tutorial, you will learn how to quickly calculate a simple moving average in Excel, what functions to use to get moving average for the last N days, weeks, months or years, and how to add a moving average trendline to an Excel chart. Continue reading
How to calculate weighted average in Excel
The tutorial demonstrates two easy ways to calculate weighted average in Excel - by using the SUM or SUMPRODUCT function. Continue reading
Consolidate data in Excel and merge multiple sheets into one worksheet
The tutorial demonstrates different ways to combine sheets in Excel depending on what result you are after – consolidate data from multiple worksheets, combine several sheets by copying their data, or merge two Excel spreadsheets into one by the key column. Continue reading
How to calculate average (mean) in Excel - AVERAGE, AVERAGEIF, AVERAGEIFS formula examples
The tutorial demonstrates how to calculate average in Excel for numeric values and for cells with other data types. You will also learn how to use the AVERAGEIF and AVERAGEIFS functions to average cells that meet certain criteria. Continue reading
Wanted: Excel users seeking to mitigate spreadsheet risk
Learn about ExcelAnalyzer - a great tool for checking your spreadsheet data and eliminating spreadsheet risk. Continue reading
How to compare two columns in Excel for matches and differences
The tutorial demonstrates a number of techniques to compare and match two or more columns in Excel with formulas, conditional formatting and the specialized wizard. Continue reading
Most useful Excel functions with formula examples
This page can be your entry point to learning Microsoft Excel functions. It lists the most essential text, math, statistical, logical and other functions along with formula examples and links to related resources. Continue reading
How to round numbers in Excel - ROUND, ROUNDUP, ROUNDDOWN and other functions
The tutorial explains the uses of ROUND, ROUNDUP, ROUNDDOWN, FLOOR, CEILING, MROUND and other Excel rounding functions and provides formula examples to round decimal numbers to integers or to a certain number of decimal places, extract a fractional part, round to nearest 5, 10 or 100, and more. Continue reading
How to merge cells in Excel without losing data
The tutorial demonstrates different techniques to quickly merge two cells in Excel and combine multiple cells without losing data in Excel 2016, 2013, 2010 and lower. Continue reading
CONCATENATE in Excel: combine text strings, cells and columns
In this tutorial, you will learn various ways to concatenate text strings, cells, ranges, columns and rows in Excel using the CONCATENATE function and "&" operator. Continue reading
