Excel tips and tutorials
In this week’s roundup, add custom chart labels, get started with VBA, compare worksheets, get info from hyperlinks, and many more Excel tips.
If you read or wrote any other interesting Excel articles recently, or have upcoming Excel events, please let me know. Thanks!
If Excel sheets are set up identically, you can create 3-D formulas, to sum a specific range, in a group of sheets. (You can use other functions in a 3-D formula too, such as Average, Count, Min or Max.)
For example, this workbook has sheets for the East, Central and West regions, and all three sheets are set up the same.
Continue reading “Compare Excel Worksheet Values and Formulas”
In this week’s roundup, build a nested IF formula, improve your dashboards, work with dates, and change a pivot table layout.
If you read or wrote any other interesting Excel articles recently, or have upcoming Excel events, please let me know. Thanks!
Last week, someone asked me if there is a menu command for moving the fields in a pivot table layout. For example, if the Region field is in the Columns area, can you use a command to move it to the Rows area, or do you have to drag it with the mouse, in the PivotTable Field List?
In this week’s roundup, fix drop down lists that allow invalid entries, create an interactive chart, get a free Excel book on Kindle, and much more.
If you read or wrote any other interesting Excel articles recently, or have upcoming Excel events, please let me know. Thanks!
Drop down lists make it easier to enter data on a worksheet, and they help ensure that only valid items will be entered in the cell.
For example, in the screen shot below, the Manager column has a drop down list with 5 names. Only those names should be entered in the column.
Continue reading “Excel Drop Down List Allows Invalid Entries”
In this week’s roundup, see how to reverse last and first names, pin a shape to a chart point, learn some Solver history, and more.
If you read or wrote any other interesting Excel articles recently, or have upcoming Excel events, please let me know. Thanks!
The most popular function in Excel is SUM, based on my experience. That’s probably the first function you learned how to use, and in the old days, it was the only function that you could insert with the appropriately named AutoSum button.
Sometimes we overlook how much counting we have to do every day too. Here are a few scenarios that you might encounter at work (or should I say “en-count-er”?):
Fortunately, your favourite spreadsheet can help – there are many different ways to count things in Excel.
In this week’s roundup, see how to choose a chart type, check formula speed, work with pivot table source data, and many more tips.
If you read or wrote any other interesting Excel articles recently, or have upcoming Excel events, please let me know. Thanks!
The key to success with Excel pivot tables is having good source data. I’ve written many articles with pivot table data source tips, and this list will help you find the information that you need. Some of the articles are on my Contextures website, and others are on my Pivot Table blog.