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.
Power BI Tutorial: Start Learning Power BI Today (For Free) Written by co-founder Kasper Langmann, Microsoft Office Specialist. Power BI is a great business intelligence and analytics solution. Though packed with lots of functionality, it’s still fairly easy to use. However, not everyone has a knack for technology. That’s why we created [...]
The 10 Best Power BI Visuals to Get Inspiration From Written by co-founder Kasper Langmann, Microsoft Office Specialist. Power BI is one of the best business intelligence and analytics solutions. Microsoft’s BI solution is especially popular with its stunning and interactive visuals. And if you’ve been working with Power BI, it’s not hard [...]
How to Do Table Visualization in Power BI (Step-By-Step) Written by co-founder Kasper Langmann, Microsoft Office Specialist. Power BI has a table visualization you can use to view detailed data and the exact values. It’s exactly how a table in a spreadsheet program like Microsoft Excel looks like. How to create a table [...]
How to Create Groups in Power BI: Get Overview of Your Data Written by co-founder Kasper Langmann, Microsoft Office Specialist. In Power BI Desktop, you can easily group the data points in visuals easily. It’s a great idea especially if you want to categorize the data points. So how do you create groups [...]
How to Set up Data Refresh in Power BI (Automatic & Manual) Written by co-founder Kasper Langmann, Microsoft Office Specialist. Power BI is a great business intelligence and analytics tool you can use to visualize findings from your data quickly. However, it’s important to make sure your data is updated or else the [...]
How to Create and Use Maps in Power BI (Ultimate Guide) Written by co-founder Kasper Langmann, Microsoft Office Specialist. Using a Power BI map is a great way to visualize data that represent locations. With visually appealing maps and easy-to-understand content, your users will be able to gain more insight into your data. [...]
How to Insert Images in Power BI (Step-by-Step) — 2019 Written by co-founder Kasper Langmann, Microsoft Office Specialist. Images are important for a lot of reasons. One of them is their ability to get the audience’s attention. In fact, that’s one of the reasons why Microsoft designed the visuals in Power BI to [...]
Power BI: Desktop vs. Online — Pros and Cons (2019) Written by co-founder Kasper Langmann, Microsoft Office Specialist. Power BI is one of the most popular business intelligence and analytics solution in the world. But a lot of people get confused with Power BI products especially with the desktop and online versions. What’s [...]
How to Use Tooltips in Power BI to Enhance Your Workflow Written by co-founder Kasper Langmann, Microsoft Office Specialist. Have you tried hovering your mouse over a data point on a Power BI visual? Did you see a little box pop up filled with contextual information and detail? In Power BI, that’s called [...]
How to Visualize Data in a Matrix in Power BI (Easy Guide) Written by co-founder Kasper Langmann, Microsoft Office Specialist. A lot of people has been asking a simple question about Power BI: Is there a visualization that shows data in different dimensions? Like a pivot table in Excel? That’s where the matrix [...]