Randomly Select a Name from a list in Excel – How To
Suppose you have a long long list of customers from which you have to select a random name. Now this is certainly not a problem if you have tens or even few hundreds of...
Excel Drop Down List using Data Validation and Excel Tables that updates dynamically –...
Excel drop down lists are one easy way to keep your data error free and other benefit it is that it automates data entry to some extent. Data validation help us make such drop down lists easily.
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10+ ways to SUM Top N values in Excel data range – Ready to...
We all love to add things up. Its always good if things add up to the way we want. And no doubt from Excel newbie to pro everyone uses SUM formula. We have recently...
How Excel LOOKUPs Work: Demystifying mighty functions with an example from past [1 of...
Functions to Excel is like Sense to Humans. Humans with absent sense are no better than crawlers walking on two legs, without functions Excel is just another program with ability to store information and...
Using SUMIF function with Dates in Excel
I was in the middle of making an accounting project where I had to use SUMIF. This wonderful function that everyone must know especially accountants. In many instances SUMIF can be used as an...
Extract First and Last word from text string using Excel Formula
Say you have several text strings and you want to separate the first and last words from each text string using Excel. This can easily be done using Excel formulas and a going little...
Building a reference to specific Worksheet based on Cell value using Formula
Most of the time businesses are managed using specialized software but when it comes to a final touch in reporting the data is exported to Excel where calculations and everything is done much more...
Extracting Integer and Decimal portion from a number in different cells – Part 1
When it comes to information then most of the time its about numbers and often numbers come with decimals i.e. numbers that are written as:
9.82
0.9856486
1021587.986244
But what if we are only interested in decimal portion...
How to do 2 Way Lookup in Excel – One value to lookup with...
I can safely assume that almost everyone knows about LOOKUP formulas or precisely VLOOKUP. That is probably because sights and sounds of Excel don't go without shouts and screams of lookup formulas. Learning Excel...
Birth Dates Heat Map in Excel – How To
First off whoever has birthday on July the 7th my best wishes to all of them. You people have a very interesting birth date. 7 and 7. Everyone's birthday is interesting in one or...