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When you bring data from another source into an Excel worksheet, the data often includes rows that you’ll want to delete. Here's the first of two methods.

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...
In a workbook with many sheets, you easily can select the sheet you want from a list of sheet names in your workbook. And you don't need VBA to do it.

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...
Here's how select a value from a list of values from a worksheet's a Validation List. You can use the list to display interactive data in reports.

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,...
Excel's absolute cell references, like $A$1, confuse many Excel users. But the explanation is easy. Each dollar signs serv only one important purpose.

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....
Here's how to split text into columns when you paste the text to your worksheet, and how to turn off this feature when you're done.

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...
In this final article of the SUMIFS, SUMPRODUCT series, you'll learn more reasons to use advanced multi-criteria lists in marketing and finance.

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...
In Word, we can set up custom forms, and then tab through them to enter our data. Here's how to tab through forms in your cells in your worksheets.

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...
When you bring data from another source into an Excel worksheet, the data often includes rows that you’ll want to delete. Here's the second of two methods.

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...
When you combine conditional formatting with charts you can create detailed chart legends that match the relative positions of the lines in your chart.

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...
You can return any number of items from an Excel database. Just use Data Validation to return one item and INDEX-MATCH to return the others.

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...

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