Excel Tips & Tutorials

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

How to Sort By Color in Excel (in less than 10 seconds)

Sort by multiple colors - select Green in the drop down

Excel has a lot of options when it comes to sorting data. And one of those options allows you to sort your data based on the color of the cell. For example, in the below dataset, you can sort by color to get the names of all the students who scored above 80 together at …

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How to Add a Secondary Axis in Excel Charts (Easy Guide)

Secondary Axis in the Chart

Excel charts allow you to do a lot of customizations that help in representing the data in the best possible way. And one such example of customization is the ease with which you can add a secondary axis to Excel charts. But before I get into the mechanics of adding a secondary axis, let me …

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Hyperlinks in Excel (A Complete Guide + Examples)

Hyperlink Formula to get the result

Excel allows having hyperlinks in cells which you can use to directly go to that URL. For example, below is a list where I have company names which are hyperlinked to the company website’s URL. When you click on the cell, it will automatically open your default browser (Chrome in my case) and go to …

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How to Quickly Unhide COLUMNS in Excel (A Simple Guide)

If you prefer written instruction instead, below is the tutorial. Hidden rows and columns can be quite irritating at times. Especially if someone else has hidden these and you forget to unhide it (or even worse, you don’t know how to unhide these). While I can’t do anything about the first issue, I can show …

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INDEX & MATCH Functions Combo in Excel (10 Easy Examples)

Three Way Lookup - Result using INDEX MATCH

Excel has a lot of functions – about 450+ of them. And many of these are simply awesome. The amount of work you can get done with a few formulas still surprises me (even after having used Excel for 10+ years). And among all these amazing functions, the INDEX MATCH functions combo stands out. I …

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How to Recover Unsaved Excel Files [All Options + Precautions]

Recover Unsaved Excel Files

Looking to recover unsaved Excel file, click here to jump to all the possible options you have to get the file back. Let me tell you the shortest horror story ever. Excel Crashed! Imagine working on that urgent report or that extremely important dashboard where you have done such a fantastic job. You are proud …

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Excel VBA Error Handling – All You Need to Know!

Second Division by error code

No matter how experienced you’re with VBA coding, errors are always going to be a part of it. The difference between a novice and an expert VBA programmer is that the expert programmers know how to effectively handle and use errors. In this tutorial, I will show you various ways you can use to handle …

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