Posts Tagged 'Excel formulas', page 8
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
How to generate random numbers in Excel - RAND and RANDBETWEEN functions
The tutorial explains the specificities of the Excel random number generator algorithm and demonstrates how to use RAND and RANDBETWEEN functions in Excel to generate random numbers, dates, passwords and other text strings. Continue reading
How to calculate time in Excel - time difference, adding / subtracting times
The tutorial explains different ways to calculate times in Excel and demonstrates several methods of adding times and calculating time difference. You will learn a few useful formulas to sum times and add hours, minutes or seconds to a given time. Continue reading
Excel date functions - formula examples of DATE, TODAY, etc.
This is the final part of our Excel Date Tutorial that offers an overview of all Excel date functions, explains their basic uses and provides lots of formula examples. Continue reading
Excel DATEDIF - calculate difference between two dates in days, weeks, months or years
In this tutorial, you will find a simple explanation of the Excel DATEDIF function and a few formula examples that demonstrate how to compare dates and calculate the difference in days, weeks, months or years. Continue reading
How to add and subtract dates, days, weeks, months and years in Excel
In this tutorial, you will find a variety of useful formulas to add and subtract dates in Excel, such as subtracting two dates, adding days, months and years to a date, and more. Continue reading
How to convert text to date and number to date in Excel
The tutorial explains how to use Excel functions to convert text to date and how to turn text strings into dates in a non-formula way. You will also learn how to quickly change a number to date format. Continue reading
How to insert dates in Excel - add today's date, auto fill a column with dates
This tutorial demonstrates various ways of entering dates in Excel. See how to insert today's date and current time as static or dynamic values, how to auto populate a column or row with weekdays, and how to auto fill random dates in Excel. Continue reading
How to change date format in Excel and create custom formatting
The first part of our tutorial focuses of formatting dates in Excel and explains how to set the default date and time formats, how to change date format in Excel, how to create custom date formatting, and convert your dates to another locale. Continue reading
How to calculate percentage in Excel - formula examples
In this tutorial, you will lean a quick way to calculate percentages in Excel, find the basic percentage formula and a few more formulas for calculating percentage increase, percent of total and more. Continue reading
Using logical functions in Excel: AND, OR, XOR and NOT
Last week we tapped into the insight of Excel logical operators that are used to compare data in different cells. Today, you will see how to extend the use of logical operators and construct more elaborate logical tests to perform more complex calculations and more powerful data analysis. Excel logical functions such as AND, OR, XOR and NOT will help you in doing this. Continue reading
Excel logical operators: equal to, not equal to, greater than, less than
Many tasks you perform in Excel involve comparing data in different cells. For this, Microsoft Excel provides six logical operators, which are also called comparison operators. This tutorial aims to help you understand the insight of Excel logical operators and write the most efficient formulas for your data analysis. Continue reading
Excel IF statement with multiple AND/OR conditions, nested IF formulas, and more
The tutorial provides a variety of advanced IF formula examples that demonstrate how to use the Excel IF function with other functions, make nested IF formulas with multiple conditions, use IFERROR and IFNA. Continue reading
Using IF function in Excel: formulas for numbers, text, dates, blank cells
In this tutorial, we are going to learn the syntax and common usages of Excel IF function as well as discuss a few formula examples for text, dates and numbers that will hopefully prove helpful both to beginners and experienced Excel users. Continue reading
How to use Excel SUMIFS and SUMIF with multiple criteria - formula examples
This tutorial explains the difference between the SUMIF and SUMIFS functions in terms of their syntax and usage, and provides a number of formula examples to sum values with multiple AND / OR criteria in Excel 2016, 2013, 2010, and lower. Continue reading
How to use SUMIF in Excel - formula examples to conditionally sum cells
This tutorial explains the Excel SUMIF function in plain English and provides a numbers of SUMIF formula examples of Excel conditional sum for numbers, text, dates and wildcards. Continue reading
How to convert numbers to text using Excel TEXT function and other options
This tutorial shows how to convert number to text in Excel 2016 - 2010. See how to accomplish the task with the Excel TEXT function and use number to string to specify the formatting. Learn how to change number format to text with the Format Cells… and Text to Columns options. Continue reading
Making a cascading (dependent) Excel drop down list
The tutorial demonstrates how to create cascading drop down lists in Excel that display choices depending on the value selected in a previous dropdown. Continue reading
Creating a drop down list in Excel: static, dynamic, from another workbook
The tutorial demonstrates 4 quick ways to create an Excel drop down list - based on a list of values, range of cells, named range and a dynamic dropdown. Continue reading
