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 Excel in 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 [...]
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.
Laptop with Microsoft Office Installed (Top 7 Picks) Written by co-founder Kasper Langmann, Microsoft Office Specialist. Looking for a new laptop? If you need to buy it for office work, it’s always a good idea to choose one that comes with Microsoft Office already installed. That way, you can work right [...]
Top 7 Places to Find PowerPoint Stock Images (Free & Paid) Written by co-founder Kasper Langmann, Microsoft Office Specialist. Using images on your presentation helps in keeping your audience engaged and interested. A lot of people use images strategically to make their presentation even more dramatic, effective, and memorable. But it doesn’t mean [...]
The Best PowerPoint Projector: 7 Projectors Reviewed Written by co-founder Kasper Langmann, Microsoft Office Specialist. Using a PowerPoint projector during presentations helps make it more immersive, appealing, and enjoyable. Unfortunately, a projector isn’t always available in every venue. So, you may have to bring your own! There are tons of projectors [...]
The Best PowerPoint Clicker: Top 7 Wireless Presenters Reviewed Written by co-founder Kasper Langmann, Microsoft Office Specialist. Wireless presenters give you the freedom to move away from the screen and engage more with the audience. The problem is, there are thousands of such products on the market that it’s not that [...]
7 Places to Hire Your Next Excel Expert and Programmer Written by co-founder Kasper Langmann, Microsoft Office Specialist. To run your business more successfully, you will need to free up more of your time and hire others to share the workload. Hiring an Excel expert or a programmer will also benefit your business [...]
How to Create a Dashboard in Excel - Step-by-Step (2020) Written by co-founder Kasper Langmann, Microsoft Office Specialist. Imagine how much time you would be able to save if you could look up and track all your important indicators at a glance… Fortunately, that’s what dashboards are all about. In this article, [...]
Excel Dashboard Training: 7 Places to Learn About Dashboards Written by co-founder Kasper Langmann, Microsoft Office Specialist. Dashboards help you become more productive as they give you a quick view of the key performance indicators in one place. This saves time since you can immediately access and see the information in one place. [...]
How to Insert a Digital Signature in Excel - Fast and Easy Written by co-founder Kasper Langmann, Microsoft Office Specialist. If you would like to make your Excel report or document look more legit, you could insert a digital signature. Doing so may not be that easy especially if you aren’t familiar with [...]
The 7 Best Barcode Scanners for Excel That Work Like a Breeze Written by co-founder Kasper Langmann, Microsoft Office Specialist. Microsoft Excel can also be used for inventory management and tracking. But to do it more efficiently, you will need barcode scanners to make it easy to categorize and pull up [...]
The 3 Best Tablets for Excel Spreadsheets Written by co-founder Kasper Langmann, Microsoft Office Specialist. Sometimes, you need to bring your work with you. A laptop might suffice, but often you want something lighter and more compact (but bigger than a phone). The solution? A tablet! My favorite tablet for Excel [...]