Excel CHOOSE Function
Excel CHOOSE Function© Ted French The CHOOSE function, one of Excel's lookup functions, uses an index number to find and return a specific value from an Excel database or table of data. ...Read Full...
View ArticleConditional Formatting with Date Formulas
The "conditional" part of conditional formatting means that you get to control when and where formatting changes are applied. If the data meets a certain condition, then the formatting change...
View ArticleFind Duplicate Data Entries with Conditional Formatting
Finding Duplicates in Excel© Ted French The "conditional" part of conditional formatting means that you can control when and where specific formatting changes are applied. If the data you have...
View ArticleUsing Conditional Formatting to Add Dynamic Row Shading
Adding Dynamic Row Shading © Ted French Conditional formatting allows you to add special formatting options to specific areas of a worksheet. One of these options is to shade rows of data in a...
View ArticleRemove Extra Spaces from Data in Excel
Remove Extra Spaces From Between Data © Ted French Sometimes, when you import data, extra spaces show up between the words or numbers. Extra spaces between words can make it difficult to read the...
View ArticleWhen the TRIM Function Doesn't Work
Last post discussed Excel's TRIM function that, normally, will remove extra spaces from imported text and leave just one space between words. Occasionally, however, TRIM can't do the job. On a...
View ArticleSubstitute New Text for Old in Excel
Excel SUBSTITUTE Function © Ted French Excel's SUBSTITUTE function lets you replace existing text data in one or more worksheet cells with new words, blank spaces, or other text. Uses for the function...
View ArticleRemove Non-Printable Characters in Excel
Sometimes, when you import data into a worksheet, extra characters show up unexpectedly along with the numbers and text. Often they are in the form of squares, lines, or other oddly shaped characters,...
View ArticleExplode a Pie Chart in Excel
Exploding a Pie Chart© Ted French To add emphasis to a particular piece of a pie chart you can move or "explode" a slice out from the rest of the chart. Doing so makes it easier to focus attention on...
View ArticleUsing Sparklines in Excel
Excel Sparklines © Ted French First introduced in Excel 2010, sparklines are tiny charts that fit into a single cell in a worksheet. They are used to give you a quick look at trends or changes that...
View ArticleExcel Line Graph Tutorial
Excel Line Graphs © Ted French Line graphs or charts are often used to plot changes in ...
View ArticleCount Work Days between Two Dates in Excel
Excel's date functions do so much more than just add the date and/or time to a worksheet. NETWORKDAYS, for example, can be used to calculate the number of working days between two dates. This function...
View ArticleExcel NETWORKDAYS.INTL Function
The NETWORKDAYS.INTL function is very similar to Excel's NETWORKDAYS function in that both can be used to calculate the number of working days between two dates. How they differ is that, while...
View ArticleCalculate a Project End Date in Excel
Excel's WORKDAY function can be used to calculate the start or end date of a project for a given number of working or business days. The function automatically excludes weekend days from its...
View ArticleExcel DATEDIF Function
Another of Excel's functions that can be used to calculate the number of days between a start and end date is DATEDIF....Read Full Post ...
View ArticleTruncate Text Strings in Excel
When data is imported or copied into a spreadsheet unwanted characters or words can sometimes be included with the new data. Excel has several text functions that can be used to remove these unwanted...
View ArticleExcel's UPPER Function
Another Excel function that can be used to modify text data is the UPPER function. This function, as its name suggest, will change selected text to all upper case letters. Case refers to the use of...
View ArticleExcel VALUE Function
Sometimes when data is imported or copied into an Excel spreadsheet numbers get converted to text. This means that they cannot be used in formulas or functions such as the SUM or AVERAGE functions....
View ArticleMeasuring Central Tendency in Google Spreadsheets
There are a number of ways of measuring central tendency or, as it is more commonly called, the average, for a set of values. Google Spreadsheets has a number of functions that make it easy to find...
View ArticleGoogle Spreadsheets MODE Function
The MODE function can be used to find the value that occurs the most often in a range of data. The mode, like the average and median, is a measure of central tendency and can be used for such things as...
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