Do you want to freeze a row or column in Excel? Do you find yourself constantly having to scroll back up to the top or to the left of the table to look at the headings? For example below, freezing the top row would be very useful because without row 1, we will not know … Continue Reading
Dynamic Dropdown List in Excel
Dropdown List Dependent On Another Cell For a more complicated dropdown list, we can create dropdown list where the list changes depending on the value in another cell. In this example, we will create two dropdown lists. The first one is a simple dropdown list with the names of the countries (United States, Australia, England … Continue Reading
Searching for a Value that has Multiple Entries in the Table
The VLOOKUP function searches for the lookup_value in the leftmost column in the table_array and stops when the first match is found. But what if there are multiple entries in the table? Have a look at an example below: There are multiple “Kate N”s in the company. Using VLOOKUP, you will only get Start Date … Continue Reading
REPLACE Function – Changing Existing Text with New Text
In this article, we will have a look at the REPLACE function. We will look at how to use this function to change existing text in a string with new text. We will also look at how the REPLACE function is different to the SUBSTITUTE function and when to use each one. REPLACE Function The … Continue Reading
How to Change and Substitute Specific Text in Excel
There could be various reasons why we need to change and substitute certain text in a cell. We have touched on this previously when needed to take out certain part of a string in a cell (How to Extract Part of a Text in Cells). You could be doing this to clean up data or … Continue Reading
How to Compare Two Columns
There are many different ways to compare two columns. And it depends on how we want to do the comparison? Do we want to simply see if item in one column is in the second column? Do we want to count how many rows have different items? Do we want to specify which rows have … Continue Reading
How to Calculate Sum or Count Based on Cell Colors
In this article we will do a step by step guide on how to add up values based on cell colors. And then we will go through how to count the number of cells that are of a particular color. We will be doing so using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). However this method is … Continue Reading