Excel tutorials, functions and advanced formula examples, page 18
Video: How to remove extra spaces in Excel
Learn how to trim leading and trailing spaces, delete all blanks between numbers, and remove extra spaces between cell values in Excel using standard functions or a special add-in. Continue reading
Excel online or Google Sheets: choosing online solution for your tables
Work online is a commodity that is slowly turning into a necessity. If you want to take your tables to the cloud, consider the most popular spreadsheet solutions: Google Sheets and Excel online. In this blog post I will try to list the main differences in the features they provide. Continue reading
Distinct and unique values in Excel: how to find, filter, select and highlight
If you want to quickly find, filter and highlight unique or distinct values in your Excel worksheets, this tutorial will show you fast and efficient ways. Continue reading
Automatically create 3D bubble charts in Excel with the 5dchart Add-in
From this article you'll learn about the 5dchart add-in. It's a flexible and easy-to-use Excel tool that makes creating 3D bubble charts and scatter plots fun and easy. Continue reading
How to count unique values in Excel
In this tutorial, you will learn how to count unique values in Excel with formulas, and how to get an automatic count of distinct values in a pivot table. We will also discuss a number of formula examples for counting unique names, texts, numbers, cased-sensitive unique values, and more. Continue reading
Excel COUNT and COUNTA functions to count cells
This short tutorial explains the basics of the Excel COUNT and COUNTA functions and shows a few examples of using a count formula in Excel. You will also learn how to use the COUNTIF and COUNTIFS functions to count cells that meet one or more criteria. Continue reading
What's new in Ultimate Suite - the latest changes in our top add-in for Excel
Ultimate Suite has become even better. We improved Consolidate Worksheets Wizard and Remove Characters, added the Clear Formatting, Split Text, Add Text add-ins and re-implemented Column Manager. Read this article to learn more. Continue reading
Video: how to merge and combine rows in Excel
This video will show four different solutions for merging rows of data, blocks of rows, or duplicate records from different lines in your table. Learn what formulas and tools you can use to combine rows in Excel and keep all important information intact. Continue reading
How to remove duplicates in Excel (duplicate rows, values and partial matches)
The tutorial explains how to remove duplicates in Excel 2010, Excel 2013, and Excel 2016. You will learn a few different techniques to find and delete duplicate values with or without first occurrences, remove duplicate rows, detect absolute duplicates and partial matches. Continue reading
How to highlight duplicate cells and rows in Excel
Today, we are going to have a close look at how to show duplicates in Excel. You will learn how to shade duplicate cells, entire rows, or consecutive dupes using conditional formatting. Also, you will see how to highlight duplicates with different colors using a specialized tool. Continue reading
Video: Three ways to merge columns in Excel without losing any data
We often need to combine columns in Excel to get names, addresses, and similar records in one cell. As there are no built-in tools for merging values from multiple columns, see three ways you can go in this video. Continue reading
How to find duplicates in Excel: identify, highlight count, filter, and more
The tutorial explains how to search for duplicates in Excel. You will learn a few formulas to identify duplicate values or find duplicate rows with or without first occurrences. You will also learn how to count instances of each duplicate record individually and find the total number of dupes in a column, how to filter duplicates, and more. Continue reading
How to compare two Excel files for differences
Learn a variety of methods to compare Excel files and identify differences between them. See how to open two Excel windows side by side, how to use Excel formulas to create a difference report, highlight differences with conditional formatting, and more. Continue reading
How to lock and unlock cells in Excel
Learn a few useful techniques to lock a cell or a few cells in Excel to protect them from deleting, overwriting or editing. The tutorial also shows how to unlock individual cells on a protected sheet by a password, or allow specific users to edit those cells without password. And finally, you will learn how to detect and highlight locked and unlocked cells in Excel. Continue reading
How to protect and unprotect Excel sheet with or without password
The tutorial shows the detailed steps to protect Excel sheet with or without passwords. It also explains how to unlock Excel spreadsheet without password if you forgot or misplaced it. Continue reading
Excel formulas not working, not updating, not calculating: fixes & solutions
This tutorial explains the most common mistakes when making formulas in Excel, and how to fix a formula that is not calculating or not updating automatically. Continue reading
EncodeFX for Outlook - instantly read emails from signal Forex providers
From this article, you will learn about an add-in for Outlook that instantly reads an e-mail from your forex provider and converts it into .csv file in order to open market orders in MetaTrader 4. Continue reading
How to edit, evaluate and debug formulas in Excel
In this tutorial, you will find a few quick and efficient ways to check and debug formulas in Excel. See how to use the F9 key to evaluate formula parts, how to highlight cells that reference or are referenced by a given formula, how to determine mismatched or misplaced parentheses, and more. Continue reading
Formula bar in Excel: how to show, hide, expand or collapse
In this short tutorial, you will learn what the Excel formula bar is, how to restore a missing formula bar in different versions of Excel, and how to expand the formula bar so that a long formula can fit into it entirely. Continue reading
How to copy formula in Excel: down a column, without changing references, etc.
In this tutorial, you will learn a few different ways of copying formulas in Excel: how to copy formula down a column, to all of the selected cells, copy a formula exactly without changing cell references or formatting, and more. Continue reading
