Most Excel users only use a small number of the functions in Excel. There are a lot of extremely useful features, but even many advanced users don’t know all of them. In this article, we introduce you to six great Excel functions, which are hardly known. 1) Remove duplicate values with just a few clicks Let’s assume you got a list …
Possessing Microsoft Excel skills has become one of the most must-have strengths of our lives. Microsoft first launched it in 1985, and initially, it was solely used for business purposes. But, with the advancement of time, it has become so widespread that we use MS Excel almost every aspect of life, whether educational, official, business or even personal purposes. After …
Most people know the power Excel can wield, especially when used properly. But fewer people know how to make the most of Excel. If you are looking for a guide on how to improve your Microsoft Excel skills, you have landed on the right page. What is Microsoft Excel? Excel is one of the best applications available on the market for creating spreadsheets to crunch numbers and dashboard reports as well as storing and administering data. This software first appeared on the scene back in 1987, and since then it has grown to become one of the most popular pieces …
Every financial analyst spends more time in Excel than they may care to admit. Based on years and years of experience, we have compiled the most important and advanced Excel formulas that every world-class financial analyst must know. 1. INDEX MATCH Formula: =INDEX(C3:E9,MATCH(B13,C3:C9,0),MATCH(B14,C3:E3,0)) This is an advanced alternative to the VLOOKUP or HLOOKUP formulas (which have several drawbacks and limitations). INDEX MATCH is a powerful …
Dynamic Excel charts automatically customize and update charts, allow users to scroll through time and select data, and give greater analytic power. What’s not to like? There are so many way to make charts dynamic so they update and customize automatically, that at first you don’t know what you don’t know. So, here is a list of eleven powerful and professional …
This is a collection of tips that will help you create powerful Excel dashboards for your consulting clients. This ranked list started by collecting the top Excel dashboard tips from multiple search engine pages. After aggregated the tips I ranked them for usefulness based on 30 years of experience developing Excel dashboards and strategic performance projects. 1. Talk to Users. …
What is an Excel table and how to create it? An Excel Table is not just any range of data with headings, but a specific Excel object that unlocks additional properties. Contrary to a random set of data, Tables work as a whole, something that can be very useful and make your Excel spreadsheet much easier to use, to share …
It’s been two years since Microsoft launched Excel for iPad, and while it may have seemed like a slightly foolhardy move at the time, Apple’s tablets have proved themselves to be more than capable of handling complex spreadsheet manipulation. Despite lacking a full keyboard and mouse interface, Excel for iPad is very nearly the equal of its desktop counterpart. Here …
Want to get more out of Excel? At Microsoft’s inaugural Data Insights Summit last month, several experts offered a slew of suggestions for getting the most out of Excel 2016. Here are 10 of the best. (Note: Keyboard shortcuts will work for the 2016 versions of Excel, including Mac; those were the versions tested. And many of the query options in Excel …
Preface: This post is set set of guidelines that address many aspects of new projects. Although I feel strongly that many of my recommendations are correct and applicable in most uses cases, other experienced practitioners have valuable ideas and I welcome their input. Please post your comments, links to other resources and ideas that may be different than mine. This …