Excel Tips & Tutorials

Step-by-step Excel guides, formulas, and tips. New tutorials added regularly.

Apply Conditional Formatting Based on Another Column in Excel

Data with Names highlighted using conditional formatting

Conditional formatting allows you to apply a format to a cell based on the value in it. in most cases, you will apply conditional formatting to the same cell for which you are analyzing the value. But in some cases, you may want to apply conditional formatting to a cell or column based on values …

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How to Hide or Show Formula Bar in Excel?

Formula Bar visible in Excel

When writing formulas in Excel, most Excel users prefer to type the formula directly within the cell. However, when working with large complex formulas, typing or editing the formula in the cell becomes a bit hard. In such cases are usually do this in the formula bar. A formula bar is a bar below the …

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How to Highlight Weekend Dates in Excel?

Dataset where weekends are highlighted

When working with dates in Excel, you may sometimes have a need to highlight only specific days of the week. For example, you may have a list of dates where you want to highlight all the weekend dates. This can easily be done using Conditional Formatting with a little bit of formula know-how. In this …

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How to Split Screen in Excel (Compare Side-by-Side)

Drag the gray lines to make the split screen go away

Excel has some really useful features that can help you be a lot more efficient in your day-to-day work. One of the common tasks many people have to do is to compare data in the same sheet. This is especially useful for people who work with large data that requires a lot of back and …

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Count Sheets in Excel (using VBA)

Copy and Paste the code to the module code window

There are some simple things that are not possible for you to do with in-built functions and functionalities in Excel, but can easily be done using VBA. Counting the total number of sheets in the active workbook or any other workbook on your system is an example of such a task. In this tutorial, I’ll …

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How to Convert Inches to MM, CM, or Feet in Excel? Easy Formula

Convert Inches to CM formula

If you work with measurement data and there is a need to convert the data from one length measurement unit to another, you can use some inbuilt formulas in excel to do that. For example, you may have a need to convert data in centimeters/millimeters to inches or feet. In this short tutorial, I will …

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How to Move Chart to New Sheet in Excel? 2 Easy Ways!

Data with Chart that needs to be moved

By default, when you insert a chart in Excel, it’s created in the same worksheet where you have the source dataset. But in many cases, you may want to move the chart from the sheet where it’s created to another worksheet (or a chart sheet – which has nothing but the chart). This can be …

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Get Day Name from Date in Excel (Easy Formulas)

Cell still has the date in the backend

When working with dates in Excel, sometimes you may want to know what day the date is (whether it’s a Monday or a Tuesday, or any other weekday). This could especially be useful in project planning, where some days could be for a specific task (such as having a project meeting or sending the progress …

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