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Excel Do’s and Don’ts – Removing Gridlines
Sometimes people like to create a “splash page” or some kind of landing page to present to end-users who aren’t familiar with the particular workbook. This splash page can include instructions, nice...
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Excel Conditional Formatting – Highlighting Duplicates
Ever need to find duplicate cells in Excel? There are many ways you can do this. You can use a formula, Excel’s built-in “remove duplicates” functionality, even code a solution yourself in VBA....
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Excel – Create a Pivot Table Using SQL
I use pivot tables extensively. And there aren’t many days that I don’t create/use/manipulate pivot tables in some way. However, I don’t typically use worksheet data like in most examples you’ll find...
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How to use Vlookup in Excel
Vlookup is one of the most popular look up functions in Excel. When you need to extract data from a table based on a particular value, you can use Vlookup to do that. In simple terms, it looks at a...
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How to use Index with Match to lookup values
A little while ago, I wrote a post about how to use Vlookup in Excel. While the Vlookup function can be very useful for grabbing related data based on a search, there are some limitations. For...
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How to Put Quotation Marks in Excel Formulas
When you add text in a formula in Excel, you have to enclose the text with quotation marks (“…”). This is useful for when you want to create a dynamic string that changes based on some conditions....
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Creating Hyperlinks With External Data
Pretty often at my job I’m asked to create an ad-hoc report in Excel that grabs some info from our website’s database and presents it with whatever metric my manager asks for. The data will have...
View ArticleHyperlinks are lost after sorting – VBA fix
After I wrote my post about creating hyperlinks with external data, a subscriber told me about a problem they were having and was wondering if I could help. The issue was that when they sorted...
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Excel Array Formulas for Beginners
Excel Array formulas are one of the handiest tools to have under your Excel tool belt. You can expand regular Excel formulas to provide a lot more power to regular functions. Take the function...
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Excel Merge Cells In Depth
Excel’s Merge Cells feature offers a simple way to organize expand the space a single cell contains. If you have a summary page, for example, you may want to create a title for the display. Or on your...
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Excel – View multiple worksheets at the same time
Sometimes you would like to view multiple worksheets at once. Maybe you have two worksheets to compare side-by-side or you are working on one worksheet where you need to reference another section at...
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Arrange Windows for the Obsessive Compulsive
I’m sure you can find how to Arrange Windows in Excel all over the web; it’s been covered many times. However, if you’re anything like me, you would like to know how to control the actual arrangement...
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Alternative to Multiple IF Statements
Have you ever had to create a multiple IF statement? Ever notice how crazy it looks with all those parentheses and it’s difficult to follow? Well, I was wondering if there was another way I could...
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Using Enum to Keep Track of Worksheet Columns
If you code much in VBA, you have probably had to manipulate worksheets at some point. There are some common ways to work with worksheets through VBA. You have the Range object, where you can write in...
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Excel Dashboard Course
Do you want to really impress your manager? Then you should learn how to create Excel dashboards. Seriously, this is like catnip for managers. If you need to know how to create beautiful graphs that...
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How to Program in VBA – Intro
If you’ve done a lot of work in Excel, you’ve probably heard about Macros or VBA. VBA can help you do your work much, much faster. It can also help you expand the true power of Excel in ways you never...
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Excel Shortcuts on Your Mac Keyboard!
Do you like to move quick in Excel? And I mean lightning fast. For example, have you ever typed a little, then move your hand to the mouse to click the toolbar area? Then move back to the keyboard,...
View ArticleHow to Capitalize Names in Excel
What I tell you? In this country, you gotta get the data first. Then when you get the data, you gotta format the data. Then when you format the data, THEN you get the woman. -Tony Montana Thanks Tony....
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