A task that comes about every so often in Excel and can be quite tricky. Now our ultimate goal is to get a number out of something like (text 1 text) or even ...

Custom cell formats are a very important steppingstone to eternal happiness in Excel. And among all Custom Formats, one takes precedence for both, its usability and ...

Excel can be very tricky about rounding numbers. Almost half of Excel users still believe that if they format a cell to round to two decimals, that what they see is ...

Here’s a nifty little trick I use every day while working in Excel. It’s a two part trick. Part one will be selecting all the blank cells in a range or ...

Excel has quite a few funny perks. Once you get over the 15 digit limit in Excel and the fact it does not calculate exactly as it should, you will sooner or later ...

This will be a short lesson on three great and sadly unknown functions and how to use them as an array function. The eighth LARGEst value One of my favorite ...

In my work as a trainer I’m usually the one serving the Excel goodies to the audience. But every so often I’m the one getting served. Whereas sometimes ...

Simply put, there are two ways to turn Conditional formatting On and Off. The manual way will take you to the Home/Conditional Formatting/Manage Rules… window ...

This is something everyone should know about Excel since it both enables Excel to do lightning speed calculations and limits Excel in a great way. And the guilty ...

We have a column of dates in Excel, and our goal is to get Q1, Q2,… or QTR1, QTR2,… or Quarter 1, Quarter 2,… . I think you get the picture 🙂 First we ...

This question or rather comparison never seizes to amaze me, since it’s just like comparing Eric Clapton to a Ford Mustang. It just can’t be done since ...

This is the second article of three. If you hadn’t read the first part yet, it is recommended that you do so. It talked about the basics of PowerPivot and ...

One of the most annoying things a Pivot Table does on refresh is it auto fits the column width of all columns. This is great if a Pivot Table is all you have on a ...

10 things you need to know The following article is kind of a baseline knowledge, one should possess, before attempting the creation of their first PowerPivot ...

Hands down, YES! If you would like to read about the comparison of definitions of the two, you can do so in the Pivot Table vs Power Pivot post. If you are new to ...

For the purposes of this article (if you wish to follow long and I strongly suggest you do so) we will be using a workbook that has the A2:E10 Range filled with the ...

Creating a dependent or linked Dropdown list In this article I will show you how to create dependent Dropdown lists using Data Validation and an Excel function ...

During the creation of Office 2007, 2010 and 2013, a great emphasis was given to the file size. Of course you would like to make the file size as small as possible ...

Pivot tables still remains the go to solution in Excel for Data Analysis. And for those who do work with them on a regular basis, three things begin to bother them ...

Here is our “problem”. When you create a Pivot Table in Excel that has a date field and is based on data in Excel, you can Group that field by month and ...

I guess we are all familiar with the MONTH function in Excel. If you give it a date as an argument, it will return the month number. So far so good. But here is a ...

These days when talking about efficiency in any Office application, particularly in Excel, keyboard shortcuts are a must. But since we can’t really be ...