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Excel has a lot of useful tools and features. There are some features that are widely used, but I wish were not so. The ability to merge cells is one such feature. While I don’t use this option myself, I still find myself unmerging cells (mostly in the workbooks shared by other people). In this …
Sometimes, you may need to know what’s the first day of the month based on a given date. When there is no dedicated function to get the first day of a given month, you can easily use a workaround to find it. In this Excel tutorial, I’ll show you some really simple formula that you …
Microsoft Excel stores dates and times as numbers, which allows the user to easily add and subtract days to a date in Excel. It also makes it really easy when you want to find out the total number of days between two dates, as you can simply subtract one from the other. In this tutorial, …
Excel stores date and time values as serial numbers in the back end. This means that while you may see a date such as “10 January 2020” or “01/10/2020” in a cell, in the back-end, Excel is storing that as a number. This is useful as it also allows users to easily add/subtract date and …
A lot of Excel users hide rows and columns when they have some data that they don’t need visible. It’s a way to only keep useful data visible, and at the same time not have to delete the data you don’t need to be visible. And, if you have lots of such hidden rows/columns, it …
When working with text data in Excel, you may have the need to remove the text before or after a specific character or text string. For example, if you have the name and designation data of people, you may want to remove the designation after the comma and only keep the name (or vice-versa where …
Excel is an awesome tool. The more I learn about it the more I fall in love with it. The team that has built Excel has put in a lot of thinking behind it and they continuously work on improving the user experience. But there are still somethings that I find irritating and often need …
Excel has some wonderful formulas that can help you slice and dice the text data. Sometimes, when you have the text data, you may want to extract the first word from the text string in a cell. There are multiple ways you can do this in Excel (using a combination of formulas, using Find and …
Using VBA Macros in Excel can be a huge time saver. You can automate a lot of repetitive tasks and create new functions and functionalities in Excel with simple VBA macro codes. But in some cases, you may want to remove all the macros from an Excel workbook (or delete specific macros only). This may …
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