Excel Tips & Tutorials

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

How to Remove Dotted Lines in Excel (3 Easy Fix)

Dotted borders

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 …

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How to Remove Macros From an Excel Workbook (3 Easy Ways)

click on the delete button to remove the selected macro

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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How to Remove Comma in Excel (from Text and Numbers)

Substitute formula to remove all the commas

A comma is commonly used when working with both text and numbers in Excel. With text, a comma can be used as a separator (such as a separator between the first and last name or address) or as a part of regular grammar. And with numbers, it often used to make the numbers more readable …

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Excel Formulas Not Working (Not Calculating)

Ref error when a row is deleted

If you work with formulas in Excel, sooner or later, you will encounter the problem where Excel formulas don’t calculate and give the result (or give the wrong result). It would have been great had there been only a few possible reasons for malfunctioning formulas. Unfortunately, there are too many things that can go wrong …

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How to Find Circular Reference in Excel (Quick and Easy)

Circular reference trace dependent

While working with Excel formulas, you may sometime see the following warning prompt. This prompt tells you that there is a circular reference in your worksheet and this can lead or an incorrect calculation by the formulas. It also asks you to address this circular reference issue and sort it. In this tutorial, I will …

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How to Add Plus Sign Before Numbers in Excel

Dataset with numbers with plus sign

Excel is a great spreadsheet tool, but there are a few things about it that may irritate you sometimes. For example, if you add a plus sign before a number in a cell in Excel, that plus sign would just go away. The same happens when you try and add leading zeros before a number. …

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