How to Delete Blank or Unneeded Rows, Method 1
When you bring data from another source into an Excel worksheet, the data often includes rows that you’ll want to delete. Often, you’ll want...
Quickly Find a Worksheet in an Excel Workbook With Many Sheets
I’m not opposed to using VBA. I think it’s great fun and it can be very useful. But in a business setting, if VBA...
How to Select Values from a Validation List in Excel
Excel provides two ways to select a value from a list of values. I often use this feature in interactive Excel reports to select dates,...
How to Use Absolute and Relative Cell References in Excel Formulas
A reader sent me this question:
Could you send me more details about using $'s like the following: =AVERAGE($6:$6) averages all data in ROW 6....
How to Change Text to Columns When You Copy and Paste in Excel
Today I needed to copy a bunch of numeric tables from a pdf file into Excel.
When I pasted the first table, all the data...
Advanced SUMIFS Calculations with Criteria Lists
In Part 1 of this series, you learned how to use criteria lists for marketing data. In Part 2, we looked at financial data.
And now, in Part...
How to Tab From Cell to Cell in an Excel Worksheet Form
As a general rule, it's a good idea to find a way to import data from some other source, rather than entering the data...
How to Delete Blank or Unneeded Rows, Method 2
Data copied from a web site or imported from a variety of sources often include irrelevant rows of data.
For example, the only way to...
How to Create Dynamic Chart Legends in Excel
When I saw a chart designed like the ones below in the Wall Street Journal, I knew I had to create one just like...
Use Excel’s Data Validation Feature to Return Items from a List
Dawn has a list of people and their email addresses in her spreadsheet. She wants to select a name from a list and then...