Excel Tips & Tutorials

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

How to Enable and Use Track Changes in Excel

When What and Where in accept reject changes in excel

If you work with an Excel file that needs to be updated or reviewed by other people, the option to track changes can come in handy. You can also use it when you’re updating a file and need to keep a track of all the changes you do yourself. This can be helpful when you …

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Lookup the Second, the Third, or the Nth Value in Excel

Formula to lookup the second third and nth value

Watch Video – Lookup the Second, the Third or the Nth Matching Value When it comes to looking up data in Excel, there are two amazing functions that I often use – VLOOKUP and INDEX (mostly in conjunction with the MATCH function). However, these formulas are designed to find only the first instance of the lookup …

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Use IFERROR with VLOOKUP to Get Rid of #N/A Errors

Error with VLOOKUP when lookup value not found

When using the VLOOKUP formula in Excel, sometimes you may end up with the ugly #N/A error. This happens when your formula can not find the lookup value. In this tutorial, I will show you different ways to use IFERROR with VLOOKUP to handle these #N/A errors cropping up in your worksheet. Using the combination …

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How to Calculate Compound Interest in Excel + FREE Calculator

Calculating Compound Interest in Excel Calculator

“Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it … he who doesn’t … pays it”. – Albert Einstein What is Compound Interest? Let me take a simple example to explain it. Suppose you invest USD 1000 in a bank account that promises to give you 10% return at the end of …

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Highlight Active Row and Column in Excel (VBA)

A Demo to Show how to highlight active row and column on selection change

One of the Excel queries I often get is – “How to highlight the Active Row and Column in a data range?” And I got one last week too. So I decided to create a tutorial and a video on it. It will save me some time and help the readers too. Below is a video …

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Drop Down Lists To Show Numbers Between Two Specified Numbers

Drop Down List Between Numbers helper column

I recently got an email from one of my readers with an interesting query on using drop-down lists in Excel. He asked me if it was possible to have a drop-down list that shows numbers based on the two specified numbers. Something as shown below: Note that the drop-down start from the number in column …

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How to Calculate Standard Deviation in Excel

Standard Deviation in Excel- Bell Curve

Excel is used extensively for statistics and data analysis. Standard deviation is something that is used quite often in statistical calculations. In this tutorial, I will show you how to calculate the standard deviation in Excel (using simple formulas) But before getting into, let me quickly give you a brief overview of what standard deviation …

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24 Useful Excel Macro Examples for VBA Beginners

Excel Macro Examples for Beginners Blog

Using Excel Macros can speed up work and save you a lot of time. One way of getting the VBA code is to record the macro and take the code it generates. However, that code by macro recorder is often full of code that is not really needed. Also macro recorder has some limitations. So …

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