Posts Tagged 'Excel tips', page 6
Excel MOD function to get remainder and more
The Excel MOD function is designed to get the division remainder, but it can do much more than its original purpose. In this tutorial, you will find a few non-trivial uses of MOD in Excel that may prove useful in your worksheets. Continue reading
Excel RANK functions with formula examples
When you need to determine the relative position of a number in a list of numbers, the easiest way is to sort the numbers in ascending or descending order. If for some reason sorting is not possible, the Excel RANK function is the perfect tool to do the job. Continue reading
How to use Data Validation in Excel - custom validation rules and formulas
In yesterday's tutorial we started to look at Excel Data Validation - what its purpose is, how it works, and how to use built-in rules to validate data in your worksheets. Today, we are going to take a step further and talk about the nitty-gritty aspects of custom data validation. Continue reading
Data validation in Excel: how to add, use and remove
When setting up a workbook for your users, you may often want to control information input into specific cells to make sure all data entries are accurate and consistent. Among other things, you may want to allow only particular data type such as numbers or dates in a cell, or limit numbers to a certain range and text to a given length. Continue reading
How to track changes in Excel
When collaborating on an Excel workbook, you may want to keep track of the changes that have been made to it. On a printed copy, you could use a red pen to mark edits. In an Excel worksheet, you can review, accept or reject changes electronically by using the Track Changes feature. Continue reading
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
