Excel Tips & Tutorials

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

Arrow Keys not Working in Excel (Not Moving Cells)

If you press the down arrow key in Excel and the cursor stays put, or the whole sheet scrolls instead, it can feel like the keyboard has stopped working. In most cases, the keyboard is fine. Excel has a few modes and settings that take over the arrow keys, and each one shows a clue …

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How to Add Months to Date in Excel (Easy Formula)

EDATE-formula-to-add-months-to-date

Sometimes, when working with dates, you may want to know the date after a specific number of months. For example, you may want to know the date three months after a specific date. Thankfully, Excel has an in-built function (EDATE) that does exactly this. In this tutorial, I will show you how to use a …

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Combine Date and Time in Excel (Easy Formula)

Formula to combine date and time with custom text

Sometimes you may have dates in one column and time values in another column and you want to combine these to get one single date and time value in a cell. And if you’re thinking that you can do that by easily combining the two cells by using the concatenate formula or the & sign, …

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How to Calculate Correlation Coefficient in Excel (2 Easy Ways)

Output showing correlation of all series

Excel is a powerful tool that has some amazing functions and functionalities when working with statistics. Finding a correlation between two data series is one of the most common statistical calculation when working with large datasets, I was working as a financial analyst a few years ago, and although we were not heavily involved in …

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5 Easy Ways to Calculate Running Total in Excel (Cumulative Sum)

Running totals for Printer only

Running total (also called cumulative sum) is quite commonly used in many situations. It’s a metric that tells you what’s the sum of the values so far. For example, if you have the monthly sales data, then a running total would tell you how much sales have been done till a specific day from the …

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How to Import XML File into Excel | Convert XML to Excel

XML data in the Excel file

The XML file format is quite commonly used on the web, and there is a possibility that sometimes you may have to work with the data in the XML file. Now you can’t use the XML file directly, as it’s not meant to be read by humans (but machines). In such a case, it would …

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How to Get Month Name from Date in Excel (4 Easy Ways)

Click on Custom option in Fomat Cells dialog box

Excel allows you to format dates in many different ways. You can choose to show the date in a short date format or in a long date format. You can also only show the day number, the month name, or the year from a given date. In this short Excel tutorial, I will show you …

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