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Some time ago I wrote an Excel Tutorial about getting a list of file names from a folder in Excel. In that tutorial, I showed various ways to get the list of file names from a folder (using the FILE function and VBA). However, the limitation of that method is that it can only get the file …
What do you do when you have to copy a range of cells in Excel and paste it somewhere else? In most cases, the below three steps get the work done: But what if you have some hidden cells in the dataset? Then – these above three steps are not enough. Let me show you …
I often find it quite frustrating when Excel automatically creates a hyperlink as soon as I insert an email id or a URL in a cell and hit enter. Now, when I try to select a cell (or double-click on it to get into the edit mode), it automatically opens the link in a new browser …
Rounding a number to the nearest integer or the nearest 0.5 or 5 or 10 multiple is a common task for many people. For example, if you’re a project manager involved in effort estimate, you can’t have 12.7 full-time resources working on a project. You need to round-up this number to 13 (the nearest integer). …
When working with Excel, there are some small tasks that need to be done quite often. Knowing the ‘right way’ can save you a great deal of time. One such simple (yet often needed) task is to number the rows of a dataset in Excel (also called the serial numbers in a dataset). Now if …
On my first day in my job in a small consulting firm, I was staffed on a short project for three days. The work was simple. There were many folders on the network drive and each folder had hundreds of files in it. I had to follow these three steps: Sounds simple right? It was – Simple …
In Excel, you can use the Text to Columns functionality to split the content of a cell into multiple cells. You can specify the delimiter (such as a space, comma, or tab) and the Text to Columns would use this delimiter to split the content of the cells. Examples of this include splitting first and …
A few days ago, one of my VBA course students asked me if there was a way to select every third row in a dataset in Excel. While there is no way to do this using inbuilt functionalities in Excel, it can easily be done using VBA. Something as shown below: In this tutorial, I …
Excel already has a couple of ways to sort data quickly. You can easily sort a data set by using the sort icons in the ribbon or the sort dialog box. Then why do you need to know how to do this using VBA? Knowing how to sort data using VBA can be helpful when …
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