How To Print An Excel Spreadsheet Like A Pro + Free Sample File While the world is increasingly going digital, there are some times when you need to print your documents. Even your spreadsheets. It might seem like an easy task - just hit Print, right? Not so quick! Getting your spreadsheets to print [...]
How to Calculate Percentages in Excel: The Exact Formulas You Need 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 know how to get the right numbers in [...]
How To Sort Data In Excel: Organize Your Data In A Few Clicks 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 simpler: you just want to sort. And if [...]
How To Use The COUNTIF Function in Excel (+COUNTIFS) In Excel, there are many built-in functions available to make all kinds of calculations. In this tutorial, you're going to learn about 2 functions. These functions count the number of cells within a range that contain a specific value. Say we have a list of [...]
How to Delete Blank Rows in Excel — The Right Way 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 a few clicks! First, we'll show you the [...]
How to Insert a Checkbox in Excel ✔ 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, or you're concerned about the presentation, inserting a [...]
The Function COUNT Explained: Count Cells In Excel (Easily) Of all the things that Excel does, counting seems rather rudimentary. But you might be surprised by the power of Excel's COUNT function. And when you get into COUNT's sister functions, there are some really cool things you can do. Let's take a look at [...]
How to Create a Formula in Excel Add, subtract, multiply, and divide (+more) 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 walk you through each step of how to write [...]
How to Transpose Data in Excel: Turn Rows into Columns (vice versa) 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 transposing—turning rows into columns, or columns into rows. [...]
All Excel's Date and Time Functions Explained! 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 will show you how to perform calculations involving [...]
How To Password Protect An Excel File: Lock Cells and Formulas (Easily) 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 where an Excel file is used by many [...]
How To Find Duplicates in Excel And Then Remove Them (Or Merge) 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 the issues you'll probably come across is [...]
How To Use The Function AVERAGE To Calculate The Mean in Excel 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, as well as its sister functions [...]
How to Freeze Cells, Rows, and Columns in Excel Using "Freeze Panes" 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 sucks! Well, good thing you stopped by because [...]
How To Use The HLOOKUP Function In Excel + Examples 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 impractical. At this point, using Excel's [...]
Excel Pivot Table Tutorial: The Ultimate Guide to Creating Pivot Tables 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 (2016). Pivot Tables make it easy to summarize data and create dynamic [...]
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.
VBA VLOOKUP: How to Use Worksheet Functions in VBA Visual Basic for Applications has many built-in functions that will help you work with spreadsheet data. But Excel is the undisputed king when it comes to useful functions. Fortunately, you can use worksheet functions to take advantage of that power when you’re writing macros in VBA. Let’s [...]
How to Use For Loops in VBA In programming, loops allow you to run commands multiple times. It's simple, but it’s one of the most powerful things you can do with VBA code. (And it saves you a huge amount of typing.) Let’s take a look at how loops save you time and give [...]
Using an Input Box to Gather Data in VBA Most of the time, you’ll write VBA code that uses values already present in your spreadsheet. But what if you want to get information directly from the user? Input boxes let you do just that. Instead of just displaying a message, like a message box, [...]
How to Use IF Statements in VBA IF statements are some of the most foundational concepts in programming. They serve as the basis for many more complicated functions—if you understand them, you’re well on your way to becoming a VBA expert. But if you don’t have programming experience, understanding how IF statements work can be [...]
How to Use Ranges in VBA When you're working in VBA, you'll have to tell Excel which cells you want a particular command to apply to. To do that, you'll use Ranges. A range is simply a cell or collection of cells that you tell Excel to pay attention to. Notice that I didn't say [...]
How to Use the VBA Editor in Excel Excel’s Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) editor is a very powerful tool. It lets you write and edit custom scripts that automate actions in Excel. In fact, when you record a macro it is stored in VBA code in the VBA editor. But writing a macro from the [...]
How to Make a Macro in Excel Excel is packed with great ways to save time—keyboard shortcuts, templates, the fill handle, and so on—but there's no better time-saving tool than a macro. A macro is a sequence of instructions that Excel will execute whenever you tell it to. And that opens up a huge [...]
How to Use Do Until and Do While Loops in VBA Like for loops, do until and do while loops are powerful concepts that you’ll find in most programming languages. And if you can master them in VBA, you’ll be prepared to create powerful scripts to work with spreadsheet data in new ways. Let's take [...]
VBA DIM: How to Declare Variables in VBA In VBA, like any other programming language, variables are important. They're one of the core parts of the language, in fact. A variable in programming is like a variable in math: it stands in the place of a value, and that value can change. The fact that [...]
How to Use Comments in Excel's VBA Editor Like any scripts, Excel’s VBA modules can be very long and complicated to read. Basic VBA scripts are easy to work your way through. But once you start adding more variables and functions, it gets very difficult to figure out what’s going on. So how do you [...]