You can find Excel’s clipboard by going to the Home tab and clicking the small expand icon in the lower right hand corner of the Clipboard section. There is also a handy keyboard shortcut (Ctrl + press C twice fast) to open the clipboard but it’s disabled by default. To open the clipboard and enable the clipboard shortcut. Now you will quickly and easily be able to access the clipboard by using Ctrl + press C twice fast....
Let’s take a look. The most basic way to enter cell references in a formula is just to type in the references as you need them. For example, we can type the formula “=B7+D6” directly. Notice that you don’t need to worry about case. When Excel sees a valid reference, it will automatically convert the reference to upper case. Excel has a nice way of showing you what cells are being referenced in a formula....
One of the nice things about the RANDARRAY function is that it makes it easy to generate a list of random dates. In this worksheet, let’s generate 20 random dates between May 1 and May 30, 2020. Now, to use the RANDARRAY function for this, we’re going to need a max and min value. These values correspond to start and end dates, and I’ve already this set up in cells C4 and C5....
Setting up a running total in an Excel table is a little tricky because it’s not obvious how to use structured references. This is because structured references provide a notation for current row, but not for first row in a column. Let’s explore a few options, starting with formulas based on regular references. One common approach is to simply add the row above to the value in the current row… But this will throw an error because the column header contains text....
Let’s take a look. Let’s start off by copying a set of numbers in General format across our table. Then let’s apply Accounting format to the columns C through H. The easiest way to apply Accounting is to use the Number Format menu on the ribbon. Now let’s select cells in column D and check the options available for Accounting in the Format Cells dialog box. Like the Currency format, the Accounting format provides options for decimal places and a currency symbol, and it automatically uses a comma to separate thousandths....
When to use Excel LEN Function LEN function can be used when you want to get the total number of characters in a specified string. This is useful when you want to know the length of a string in a cell. What it Returns It returns a number that represents the number of characters in the specified string. Syntax =LEN(text) Input Arguments text – the string for which you want to find the number of characters....
When to use Excel SUM Function SUM function can be used to add all numbers in a range of cells. What it Returns It returns a number that represents the sum of all the numbers. Syntax =SUM(number1, [number2],…]) Input Arguments number1 – the first number you want to add. It can be a cell reference, a cell range, or can be manually entered. [number2] – (Optional) the second number you want to add....
Let’s take a look. Here we have a simple feature summary table. We can use orientation to spice things up a bit. Before we do that, however, let’s look at what types of orientation are available. Orientation options are in a menu in the Alignment group on the home tab of the ribbon. There are two basic types of orientation. One type stacks letters on top of one another. This is called Vertical Text in the orientation menu....
This formula returns “x” if the color in B5 is either “red” or “green”, and the quantity in C5 is greater than 10. Otherwise, the formula returns an empty string (""). Note that the OR function appears inside the AND function. In other words, the OR function is logical1 inside the AND function while C5>10 is logical2. This snippet will return TRUE only when the color in B5 is either “red” OR “green” AND the quantity in C5 is greater than 10....
where name (B5:B16), group (C5:C16), and score (D5:D16) are named ranges. The formula returns the name associated with the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd highest values in Group A. Note: This is an array formula that must be entered with control + shift + enter, except in Excel 365. In this example, we can use the LARGE function to get a highest score, then use the score like a “key” to retrieve the associated name with INDEX and MATCH....
where dates (B5:B15), rooms (C4:G4), and rates (C5:G15) are named ranges. With check-in on December 3 and check-out on December 7 (4 nights) in a King room, the formula returns a total of $460. Working from the inside out, this formula uses boolean logic to “filter” the rate data. The filter is constructed with three expressions, provided as the first argument to SUMPRODUCT: Each of these expressions returns an array of TRUE FALSE values: The math operation of multiplying the arrays together coerces the TRUE FALSE values to 1s and 0s, so we can visualize the operation more simply like this: The result is a two-dimensional array like this: This is the array that does the filtering in this example....
Fields The pivot table shown is based on two fields: Color and Amount. The Color field is configured as a row field, and the Amount field is a value field, as seen below: The Amount field is configured to Sum: You are free to rename “Sum of Name” as you like. Steps Notes Author Dave Bruns Hi - I’m Dave Bruns, and I run Exceljet with my wife, Lisa. Our goal is to help you work faster in Excel....
Fields The source data contains three fields: Date, Region, and Sales. Note the field list does not include the calculated item. The calculated item was created by selecting “Insert Calculated Item” in the “Fields, Items, and Sets” menu on the ribbon: The calculated field is named “Southeast” and defined with the formula “=South + East” as seen below: Note: Field names with spaces must be wrapped in single quotes (’). Excel will add these automatically when you click the Insert Field button, or double-click a field in the list....
which returns the length of the hypotenuse, given lengths of side a and aside b, given in column B and C respectively. a2 + b2 = c2 When any two sides are know, this equation can be used to solve for the third side. When a and b are known, the length of the hypotenuse can be calculated with: When b and c are known, the length of side a can be calculated with:...
Leading and trailing spaces in Excel often leads to a lot of frustration. I can’t think of a situation where you may need these extra spaces, but it often finds its way into the excel spreadsheets. There are many ways you can end up with these extra spaces – for example, as a part of the data download from a database, while copying data from a text document, or entered manually by mistake....
In the example shown, the formula in cell D6 is This tells Excel to take the value in B6 ($33.39 ) and round it down to the nearest multiple of the value in C6 (5). The result is $30.00, since 30 is nearest multiple of 5 below 33.39. Likewise, in cell D7, we get 30 when rounding down using a multiple of 10. You can use FLOOR to round prices, times, instrument readings or any other numeric value....
Excel Tables are one of Excel’s most powerful features for working with data. To create a table, just select a cell in the data and use Control + T. New tables have filters enabled. To toggle filters, use Ctrl-Shift-L in Windows, and use Command-Shift-F on a mac. A number of shortcuts for selecting cells take advantage of the table structure. You can select the entire table with Select All, that’s control + A on Windows, Command-A on a Mac....
where “code” is the named range K5:K9, and “value” is the named range L5:L9. Note: this is an array formula, and must be entered with control + shift + enter. which would return 4. The twist in this problem however is that we want to translate and sum a range of text values in columns C through G to numbers. This means we need to provide more than one lookup value, and we need INDEX to return more than one result....
Change the default font to Wingdings. Close Excel and then the next time they open a new workbook in Excel they’ll be greeted with a load of Wingdings. Oh no, Excel is broken!
