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By default, all the sheet tabs in Excel are of the same color (white when the sheet tab is active and gray for all the non-active tabs). People who work with a lot of worksheet tabs find it useful to give a specific color to a sheet tab. This could be useful in showing the …
If you need to get the sum across multiple worksheets, you can use one of the less-known Excel feature called 3D referencing. With 3D referencing, you can refer to the same cell in multiple worksheets, and can also use this in formulas such as the SUM or AVERAGE, or COUNT. In this short tutorial, I …
The drop-down feature in Excel is quite useful when doing data entry. Using it, you can create a drop-down in a cell that will show you all the pre-populated options that you can choose from. It saves time as you can simply choose from the list instead of entering it manually, and it also helps …
Excel ribbon is the area at the top of the worksheet that contains most of the frequently used commands. In the ribbon, we have different tabs (such as the ‘Home’ tab or the ‘Insert’ tab), and within each tab, we have the relevant commands. Most Excel users would find everything they need somewhere in the …
Since Excel is used by people in different professions and across industries, Excel allows you to show numbers in many different formats. When working with financial data and creating accounting reports, one common number format that needs to be used is to show negative numbers in brackets (parentheses). While the default setting in Excel is …
Excel ribbon was introduced in Excel 2007, which allowed users to access all the important tools and functionalities from one single place. Personally, I think the Excel ribbon was a huge improvement over the earlier menu option, as it made it more user-friendly for people to find useful options in one place. While it wasn’t …
I love using Conditional Formatting in Excel. It allows me to quickly highlight and format cells based on specified conditions. While Conditional Formatting is great, it’s also volatile – which means that if you have a lot of conditional formatting rules applied to large data sets, it can slow down your Excel file. So, I …
Cells are the building blocks of a worksheet in Excel. Most Excel users spend the majority of their time working with the cells in Excel – be it entering data or formulas or editing the already entered formulas/text. In this tutorial, I will cover everything you need to know about editing cells in Excel. While …
The Pivot Table feature is used by many Excel users – beginners as well advanced. One thing that often troubles new Pivot Table users is when they find that a Pivot Table Fields list (some people call this Pivot Table Fields menu) goes missing. You can’t do much with a Pivot table if you do …
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