Posts Tagged 'Excel tips', page 6
How to share Excel file for multiple users and co-author a shared workbook
The recent versions of Excel make it easy to share and collaborate on workbooks. By sharing an Excel file, you allow multiple users edit the same document simultaneously, which saves you the trouble of keeping track of multiple versions. Continue reading
How to flip data in Excel: reverse columns vertically and rows horizontally
Flipping data in Excel sounds like a trivial one-click task, but surprisingly there is no such inbuilt option. In this tutorial, you will find a few quick ways to flip tables vertically and horizontally preserving the original formatting and formulas. Continue reading
How to create and use dynamic named range in Excel
If you are working with a continuously changing data set, you may want to make your named range dynamic so that it automatically expands to accommodate newly added data. In this tutorial, you will find detailed step-by-step guidance on how to do this. Continue reading
Excel named range - how to define and use names in Excel
Names in Excel are a paradoxical thing: being one of the most useful features, they are often considered pointless or nerdy. This tutorial will teach you different ways to create a named range in Excel to make your formulas much easier to write, read, and re-use. Continue reading
Excel calculations: automatic, manual, iterative
To be able to use Excel formulas efficiently, you need to understand how Microsoft Excel calculates them. Not less important are calculation settings that can speed up, slow down or even stop your Excel calculations as well as maintain their accuracy. Continue reading
How to do calculations in Excel
When it comes to calculations, there is almost noting that Microsoft Excel cannot do, from totaling a column of numbers to solving complex linear programming problems. Apart from that, you can use Excel as a calculator to do math - add, divide, multiply, and subtract numbers as well as raise to power and find roots. Continue reading
Basic Excel formulas & functions with examples
Being primarily designed as a spreadsheet program, Microsoft Excel is extremely powerful and versatile when it comes to calculating numbers or solving math and engineering problems. This tutorial aims to teach you the essentials of Excel functions and show how to use basic formulas in Excel. Continue reading
How to calculate standard deviation in Excel
In statistics, the arithmetic mean and standard deviation are two closely related concepts. But while the former is understood by most, the latter is comprehended by few. The aim of this tutorial is shed some light on what the standard deviation is and how to calculate it in Excel. Continue reading
Mean, median and mode in Excel
When analyzing numerical data, you may often be looking for some way to find the "typical" value. For this purpose, you can use one of the so-called measures of central tendency such as arithmetic mean, median or mode. Continue reading
How to calculate median in Excel
The median is one of the three main measures of central tendency, which is commonly used in statistics for finding the center of a data sample or population. Continue reading
How to insert picture in Excel: fit image in cell, add to comment, header or footer
In this tutorial, we will look at how to insert image in Excel from your computer, OneDrive or from the web and how to lock a picture to a cell so that it adjusts and moves with the cell when the cell is resized, copied or moved. Continue reading
How to convert Excel to JPG, PNG or GIF image
Whilst you can easily save an Excel file to many formats including PDF by using the standard Save As dialog, surprisingly, JPG is not in the list. Luckily, there exist a handful of different ways to convert .xls to .jpg, both desktop and online. Continue reading
How to align text in Excel
By default, Microsoft Excel aligns numbers to the bottom-right of cells and text to the bottom-left. However, you can easily change the default alignment or even align a column of numbers by a decimal point or a specific character. Continue reading
Lookup in Excel: functions and formula examples
Looking up a specific value within a dataset is one of the most common tasks in Excel. And yet, there exists no "universal" lookup formula suited for all situations. In this tutorial, you will find an overview of the most popular Excel Lookup functions with formula examples and in-depth tutorials linked for your reference. Continue reading
How to add & subtract time in Excel to show over 24 hours, 60 minutes, 60 seconds
When subtracting and adding time in Excel, you may sometimes want to display the resulting time intervals over 24 hours in the hh:mm format, over 60 minutes in the mm:ss format, and over 60 seconds in the ss format. The task is a lot easier than it may sound, and you will know the solution in a moment. Continue reading
Excel LOOKUP function with formula examples
There are a handful of different ways to look up and match in Excel. This tutorial discusses the LOOKUP function that is designed to handle the simplest cases of vertical and horizontal lookup. Continue reading
Excel Hyperlink: how to create, change and remove
Hyperlinks are widely used on the Internet to navigate between web-sites. In your Excel worksheets, you can easily create such links too. In addition, you can insert a hyperlink to go to another cell, sheet or workbook, to open a new Excel file or create an email message. Continue reading
How to use Excel Hyperlink function to create different link types
There are many ways to create a hyperlink in Excel. If you plan to insert many identical or similar hyperlinks, the fastest way is to use a Hyperlink formula, which makes it easier to insert, copy and edit hyperlinks. Continue reading
How to AutoFit in Excel: adjust columns and rows to match data size
Microsoft Excel provides a handful of different ways to change column width and adjust row height. The easiest way to resize cells is to have Excel automatically determine how much to widen or narrow the column and to expand or collapse the row to match the data size. Continue reading
How to change and AutoFit row height in Excel
By default, all rows on a new workbook are set to the same height. However, Microsoft Excel allows you to resize rows in different ways such as changing row height by using the mouse, auto fitting rows and wrapping text. Continue reading
