Excel Tips & Tutorials

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

Understanding Excel VBA Data Types (Variables and Constants)

Excel VBA Data Types assignment error mismatch

In Excel VBA, you would often be required to use variables and constants. When working with VBA, a variable is a location in your computer’s memory where you can store data. The type of data you can store in a variable would depend on the data type of the variable. For example, if you want …

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8 Ways to Reduce Excel File Size (that actually work)

Reduce Excel File Size

Excel workbooks have been known to become painfully slow and heavy as more data/formulas/images are added to it. Sometimes, it’s easy to get rid of the extra flab and keep the excel file size in check, and sometimes, it isn’t. And since Excel is not a web-based tool, most of us work and collaborate by …

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VBA UCASE Function – Convert Text to Upper Case in Excel

Excel VBA Ucase Function Example - Message Box

In Excel worksheet, the UPPER function converts all the lowercase characters of a text string into uppercase. There is a similar function in that also does the same – the UCase function. The VBA UCase function takes a string as the input and converts all the lower case characters into upper case. Syntax of the VBA UCASE Function …

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VBA LCASE Function – Convert Text to Lower Case in Excel

VBA LCase to convert selection to lower case

In Excel worksheet, there is a LOWER function that converts a text string into lower case. Just like the LOWER function, there is a similar inbuilt function in Excel VBA – LCASE The VBA LCASE function takes a string as the input and converts it into a lower case string. Syntax of VBA LCASE Function …

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How to Move Rows and Columns in Excel

Move Row to the Top

Sometimes when working with data in Excel, you may have a need to move rows and columns in the dataset. For example, in the below dataset, I want to quickly move the highlighted row to the top. Now, are you thinking of copying this row, inserting the copied row where you want it, and then …

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Excel VBA TRIM Function (explained with Examples)

VBA TRIM Example 2 Dataset

Excel already has a TRIM worksheet function that you can use to get rid of leading, trailing, and extra spaces in between words/strings. There is a TRIM function in VBA as well (and it does exactly the same thing – remove extra spaces). Why do we need a TRIM function in VBA too? Fair question! …

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Excel VBA Autofilter: A Complete Guide with Examples

Excel VBA Autofilter

A lot of Excel functionalities are also available to be used in VBA – and the Autofilter method is one such functionality. If you have a dataset and you want to filter it using a criterion, you can easily do it using the Filter option in the Data ribbon. And if you want a more advanced version …

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Search and Highlight Data Using Conditional Formatting

Watch Video – Search and Highlight Data Using Conditional Formatting If you work with large datasets, there can be a need to create a search functionality that allows you to quickly highlight cells/rows for the searched term. While there is no direct way to do this in Excel, you can create search functionality using Conditional …

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