Excel Tips & Tutorials

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

Strikethrough Text in Excel – Keyboard Shortcut and Examples

What comes to your mind when you see text with a strikethrough in Excel (something as shown below)? In most cases, it means that the task or activity has been completed and has been checked off. Those who work with Microsoft Word use this extensively, and there is a strikethrough icon right there in the …

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How to Use Multiple Criteria in Excel COUNTIF and COUNTIFS Function

Excel has many functions where a user needs to specify a single or multiple criteria to get the result. For example, if you want to count cells based on multiple criteria, you can use the COUNTIF or COUNTIFS functions in Excel. This tutorial covers various ways of using a single or multiple criteria in COUNTIF …

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Excel Dashboard: Premier League Season 2014-15 Visualized

I was never into sports. I tried my hands at a number of sports, but I was always below average in most of it (you got to give me some credit for trying at least). In 2010, my roommate got me addicted to watching football. We would keenly follow all the matches in English Premier League and …

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Show Symbols in Drop Down Lists in Excel

When creating a drop-down list in Excel, it takes a range of cells as input and shows it as a list. There is not much you can do with how your list looks in the drop-down. For example, you can not give a background color or change font color, font type, font size, etc. Despite …

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How to Count Colored Cells in Excel?

Wouldn’t it be great if there was a function that could count colored cells in Excel? Sadly, there isn’t any inbuilt function to do this. BUT.. It can easily be done. How to Count Colored Cells in Excel In this tutorial, I will show you three ways to count colored cells in Excel (with and without …

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How to Count Cells that Contain Text Strings

Counting is one of the most common tasks people do in Excel. It’s one of the metric that is often used to summarize the data. For example, count sales done by Bob, or sales more than 500K or quantity of Product X sold. Excel has a variety of count functions, and in most cases, these …

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Find and Remove Duplicates in Excel

With a lot of data…comes a lot of duplicate data.  Duplicates in Excel can cause a lot of troubles. Whether you import data from a database, get it from a colleague, or collate it yourself, duplicates data can always creep in. And if the data you are working with is huge, then it becomes really …

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Excel Timesheet Calculator Template [FREE DOWNLOAD]

Since I have started this blog, the Excel timesheet calculator template has been one of the most requested templates. I often get queries on how to calculate regular hours and overtime hours of employees based on the ‘In time’ and ‘Out time’. I also couldn’t find a good Excel timesheet template online, so I decided to …

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