Excel Tips & Tutorials

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

Using Find and Replace in Excel

Last month, one of my colleagues got a data set in Excel, and he was banging his head to clean it. Since I was the only one in the office at that wee hour, he asked me if I could help. I used a simple technique using Find and Replace in Excel, and his data was …

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How to Multiply in Excel Using Paste Special

Watch Video – How to Multiply in Excel Using Paste Special Excel Paste Special functionality can save a lot of time. One of its features is ‘Operations’, which allows us to quickly perform mathematical calculations (such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division) on a range of cells. In this tutorial, I will show you how to multiply …

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Find the Closest Match in Excel (using Formulas)

Excel functions can be extremely powerful if you get a hang of combining different formulas. Things that might have seemed impossible would suddenly start looking like a child’s play. One such example is to find the closest match of a lookup value in a dataset in Excel. There are a couple of useful lookup functions …

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How to Get the Word Count in Excel (Using Simple Formulas)

Want to get the word count in Excel? Believe it or not, Excel does not have an inbuilt word counter. But don’t worry. A cool bunch of excel functions (or a little bit of VBA if you’re feeling fancy) can easily do this for you. In this tutorial, I will show a couple of ways to count …

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Trump Excel Turns One Year Old Today

One year ago I started Trump Excel to share what I know about MS Excel, and to continue to learn and share. Today (proud as I write this post) marks one year of this initiative. Today there is no excel tip in this message. Just a plain and simple THANK YOU!! It is you who …

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How to Insert a Watermark in Excel (a Step-by-step Guide)

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In many situations, you may want to insert a watermark in Excel (such as your company’s logo or an image) before sharing it with others. In case you are sharing a WIP (work-in-progress) version of the report, you may want to place a WIP/Draft as the watermark in it. While Excel does not have a …

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Color Negative Chart Data Labels in Red with a downward arrow

If you create an Excel chart that represents YoY change, it is a good formatting technique to highlight chart data labels with a negative value in red. And at the same time, if you could also add upward/downward arrows to the data labels, then that’s icing on the cake. With a simple number formatting trick, you …

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Check your EQ (Excel Quotient) – Formula Crossword

Do you think you know Excel Formulas? Here is a fun way to test it!! This blog post has a downloadable file (at the end) that has an Excel Formula Crossword in it. Go ahead and test your formula knowledge. Since I am a nice guy, I did not put a timer in it. Solve it at …

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