How To Print An Excel Spreadsheet Like A Pro Written by co-founder Kasper Langmann, Microsoft Office Specialist. Printing your spreadsheets, aaah... At the surface, it's so simple. Just hit 'Print', right? Not so quick! Getting your spreadsheets to print well can be surprisingly difficult. Sometimes they split in weird places. Or you get just [...]
How to Calculate Percentages in Excel: The Exact Formulas You Need Written by co-founder Kasper Langmann, Microsoft Office Specialist. If you regularly work with numbers, you probably also work with percentages. And when you do, you'll find that Excel can handle them just as well as whole numbers or decimals. Still, you need to [...]
How To Sort Data In Excel: Organize Your Data In A Few Clicks Written by co-founder Kasper Langmann, Microsoft Office Specialist. Excel packs a lot of organizational power. Useful tools like charts, filters, and pivot tables let you slice and dice your data any way you want. But sometimes you need something a little [...]
How to use the Excel-functions COUNTIF and COUNTIFS (new) Written by co-founder Kasper Langmann, Microsoft Office Specialist. In this tutorial, I show you exactly how to use the 2 functions COUNTIF and COUNTIFS (which is new!). In short, these functions count the number of cells within a range that contain a specific value. A quick example: Say we [...]
How to Delete Blank Rows in Excel — The Right Way Written by co-founder Kasper Langmann, Microsoft Office Specialist. There's something inherently irritating about spreadsheets with blank rows. Excel sets out your data so nicely—and then its hard work is interrupted by blank rows. It seems unjust. Fortunately, you can remove blank rows with just [...]
How to Insert a Checkbox in Excelin just 5 Minutes (or Less)✔Written by co-founder Kasper Langmann, Microsoft Office Specialist.When you use a spreadsheet to manage information, adding a checkbox seems like overkill. You can just type an "x" or a "1" wherever you might place a checkmark.But if many people will be using your spreadsheet, [...]
The Excel-Function COUNT Explained: Count Values in Cells Written by co-founder Kasper Langmann, Microsoft Office Specialist. Of all the things that Excel does, counting seems rather rudimentary. But below the surface, there's so much more to it! I guarantee you're going to be surprised by the power of Excel's COUNT function :) And when you [...]
How to Create a Formula in Excel: Add, Subtract, Multiply, and Divide (& more) Written by co-founder Kasper Langmann, Microsoft Office Specialist. Learning how to create a formula in Excel is easy. If you have never known how to write a formula in your Excel spreadsheets, you are in the right place. This guide will [...]
How to Transpose Data in Excel: Turn Rows into Columns (vice versa) Written by co-founder Kasper Langmann, Microsoft Office Specialist. Reorganizing data in a spreadsheet can be a pain. Especially when you have to make big changes that a simple copy-and-paste won't fix. One of the common tasks that fall into this category is [...]
All Excel's Date and Time Functions Explained! Written by co-founder Kasper Langmann, Microsoft Office Specialist. This is the complete guide to date and time in Excel. It’s a whopping +5500 words (!), so be sure to bookmark it. The first part of the guide shows you exactly how to deal with dates in Excel. I [...]
How To Password Protect An Excel File: Lock Cells and Formulas (Easily) Written by co-founder Kasper Langmann, Microsoft Office Specialist. In Excel, there are different ways that allow you to protect data and the integrity of your files. It's super important to know your way around protection Excel files. The most common use-case is [...]
How to Find and Remove Duplicates in Excel (or Merge them) Written by co-founder Kasper Langmann, Microsoft Office Specialist. As an Excel spreadsheet grows, you start finding a host of new issues to deal with. Especially if it gets updated regularly, and even more so if it gets updated by multiple people. One of [...]
How To Calculate The Average In Excel: Use The Function AVERAGE Written by co-founder Kasper Langmann, Microsoft Office Specialist. Finding averages is often required when working with spreadsheets. It's a rather basic task—but Excel can do all sorts of great things with averages. In this tutorial, we'll take a look at the AVERAGE function, [...]
How to Freeze Cells, Rows, and Columns in Excel Using "Freeze Panes" Written by co-founder Kasper Langmann, Microsoft Office Specialist. I bet you’ve been working in a spreadsheet that had so many rows, that as you scrolled down, you couldn’t see your headers? Remember the frustration of not remembering which column was what? It [...]
How To Use The HLOOKUP Function In Excel + Examples Written by co-founder Kasper Langmann, Microsoft Office Specialist. When you're working with a small spreadsheet, it's easy to scan through and find the values you're looking for. When you start working with hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of cells, though, that becomes [...]
How to Create a Pivot Table in Excel [The Complete Guide] Written by co-founder Kasper Langmann, Microsoft Office Specialist. Who else wants to handle and visualize data without breaking a sweat? I know I do! That's why I've written this ultimate tutorial for you on "Pivot Tables" in Excel. Pivot Tables make it easy to [...]
VLOOKUP is one of the most well-known Excel functions – and not without reason. VLOOKUP’s ease of use and simplicity when “looking up” data is unparalleled in Excel. In this tutorial you'll learn how to create and troubleshoot a VLOOKUP.
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How to Square Root in Excel Written by co-founder Kasper Langmann, Microsoft Office Specialist. Finding the square root of a number in Excel is still a mystery to some Excel users. The truth is, there is more than 1 way you can square root any number in Excel. However, using the radical symbol [...]
How To Use The New XLOOKUP Function + Examples Written by co-founder Kasper Langmann, Microsoft Office Specialist. Microsoft has just announced the new ‘XLOOKUP’ function in Excel. Rumor has it that this new function is more powerful and robust than ‘VLOOKUP’ and ‘HLOOKUP’. Some say that this function is an ‘INDEX’ + ‘MATCH’ [...]
How to Separate Names in Excel: Split First and Last Name Written by co-founder Kasper Langmann, Microsoft Office Specialist. Microsoft Excel is often used to store data including personal information like names, addresses, contact numbers, etc. There are times when the names in the data are full names and you would like to [...]
How to Deselect Cells in Excel Written by co-founder Kasper Langmann, Microsoft Office Specialist. Selecting cells, ranges, rows, columns, or even the entire spreadsheet is easy. The problem is, how will deselect cells and ranges without losing your current selection? There are times when you accidentally include one or more in your selection. [...]
Excel Online vs. Excel: The Pros and Cons Written by co-founder Kasper Langmann, Microsoft Office Specialist. Microsoft Excel Online is a good alternative if you need a semi-powerful Excel. But how does it compare to Excel’s desktop app? Is it sufficient for your needs? This is a rather interesting comparison, but it’s a comparison [...]
Learn VBA in Excel: These 11+ Tutorials Teach You VBA in 20 Hours Written by co-founder Kasper Langmann, Microsoft Office Specialist. Learning VBA sounds daunting, isn’t it? It’s only natural. VBA is a huge topic. Naturally, questions like “Where do I start? Where does it end? What should I focus on?” will arise. [...]
How to Add a Header and Footer in Excel Written by co-founder Kasper Langmann, Microsoft Office Specialist. Adding a header and footer in Excel is a mystery to some users. Actually, some don’t even know that you can add a header and footer on an Excel document. (Don’t be surprised. A lot of [...]
How to Enable and Disable Macros in Excel Written by co-founder Kasper Langmann, Microsoft Office Specialist. Using macros in Excel help lower human error and save time by taking away repetitive tasks. But all the power and might of Excel macros are for naught if you don’t know how to enable them. In [...]
How to Calculate P Value in Excel Written by co-founder Kasper Langmann, Microsoft Office Specialist. The p-value, short for probability value, is an important concept in statistical hypothesis testing. Its use in hypothesis testing is common in many fields like finance, physics, economics, psychology, and many others. Knowing how to compute the probability [...]