Making Interactive Charts in Excel [How To]

Graphs and charts are amazing tools to understand the information in the blink of an eye. It not only saves you from reading at all levels. That is why charts and Excel is one...

How to Highlight Blank Cells in Excel using Conditional Formatting [Quick Tip]

With huge data pinpointing blank cells is near to impossible. Sometimes back we learnt how to fill blank cells with zero using Go-To special feature in Excel. But what if we only want to...

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...

Adding specific Prefix to All cells or Specific cells in Excel – 3 Methods...

A dear friend of mine contacted me early in the morning and the length of his message was evident that he has tried his best to get his head round the problem but in...

Remove leading Apostrophe (‘) in Excel Data from Numbers and Text – How To

This question is asked by one of the member at our facebook community. He was stuck in common problem. Leading apostrophes. This is often the case if data is extracted from a famous business...

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...

Making Aging Analysis Reports using Excel Pivot Tables – How To

Last time when I discussed preparing aging analysis in Excel, I used formula approach to do it. I used the combination of IF and TODAY functions and then used conditional formatting and sparklines to...

Excel SUMIFS function – Summing up Invoices based on multiple criteria

Excel conditional functions are part of almost every worksheet. The logical test functions help us carry out different operations easily. While discussing SUMIF we learnt to sum the values based on one criteria i.e....

Rounding to nearest 1, 10 or 100 in Excel – How To

Don't be frightened I am not giving you any fifth graders' challenge. But in real life you might be facing similar situation where you have a stack of numbers that require to be rounded...

Make a distinct count of unique values in Excel – How To

Excel is a love of life for everyone who wants to tame the data by making much larger data in short yet precise data without losing its meaning and value. But what if you...