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
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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
What You Should Use Excel For?
Microsoft Excel, the topmost spreadsheet application, offers plenty of benefits for individuals and business organizations. Being one of the most popular software, people across all industries use Excel for storing, organizing, and tracking data. With various functions and formulas, making calculations on Excel becomes highly convenient. This guide will highlight the many uses and benefits … Continue Reading
How To Identify Duplicates in Excel
What is a simple way to identify duplicates in Excel? In this article, we will go through two ways of doing that: using Conditional Formatting and COUNTIF function. And at the end we will look at how we can find the total number of unique values in a list. Finding Duplicates with Conditional Formatting The … Continue Reading
Why Is Excel Showing the Formula Instead of the Result?
There could be a few reasons why Excel is showing the formula instead of the result. First of all, all formulas in Excel must start with the equal sign “=”. Make sure there is nothing before the equal sign. Especially if there is an apostrophe ( ‘ ) in front, in Excel (and also in … Continue Reading
How To Remove Empty Rows in Excel
What is the best way to remove empty rows in Excel? There is a couple of different ways to do it. One way involves using Visual Basic Applications (VBA) and the other way doesn’t. In this article, we will go through both methods on how to remove empty rows. Removing Empty Rows The first method we … Continue Reading