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 ...

15 digit limit in Excel is something everyone should know about. Why? It both enables Excel to do lightning speed calculations and limits Excel in a great way. And ...

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 ...

Power Pivot Inside Out is a three part series on 10 things you need to know about Power Pivot. Update 2022: we recently published a video on the Excel Olympics ...

Does a Power Pivot Pivot Table beat a regular Pivot Table? Hands down, YES! If you would like to read about the comparison of definitions of the two, you can do so ...

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 ...

How to separate pivot tables in Excel? In this article we will discuss three different ways how to do this. Why does Excel do this During the creation of Office ...

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 ...