How to Calculate Ratios in Excel?

How to Calculate Ratios in Excel

It’s a common task to calculate ratios when working with financial data or doing other data analysis work in Excel. Even in our day-to-day life, we use ratios in areas such as screen size (in specifying resolutions such as 16:9) or cooking (in specifying proportions such as using two ingredients in 2:3 proportion). While there …

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How to Delete Rows in Excel (Single or Multiple)?

How to Delete Rows in Excel (Single or Multiple)

Deleting a row or deleting multiple rows is a regular part of most Excel users. Sometimes you need to delete rows when cleaning up your dataset or when you make a mistake and want to start over. Whatever your reasons, deleting rows in Excel is super easy (just like ordering a Pizza). It only takes …

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How to Count Filtered Rows in Excel?

How to Count Filtered Rows in Excel

If you want to count filtered rows in Excel, you can do that using the SUBTOTAL function. The SUBTOTAL function allows you to perform a regular count on a column with the ability to exclude those rows that have been filtered out. In this short tutorial, I will show you how to use the SUBTOTAL …

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Remove Parentheses in Excel

Remove Parentheses (Brackets) in Excel

Most of my time working in Excel is spent cleaning data that I get from different sources. One common task that I have to do quite often is to remove parentheses (or brackets) from the cells in a dataset. As with almost everything else in Excel, there are multiple ways you can remove the parenthesis …

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Repeat Last Action in Excel (Shortcuts)

Repeat Last Action in Excel (Shortcuts)

I’m a huge fan of using shortcuts in Excel to speed up my work While there are many shortcuts that I use on a daily basis, one that I find particularly useful is the ability to repeat the last performed action in Excel. This is useful when you have to do the same thing repeatedly …

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Highlight Cells With Formulas in Excel

How to Highlight Cells With Formulas in Excel

In many situations, you may want to quickly highlight all the cells with formulas in Excel. When I was working as a financial analyst a few years ago, this is something I used to do often to mark the cells that contain formulas. Another situation where this may be useful is when you want to …

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How to Change Date Format In Excel?

How to Change Date Format In Excel

If you work with date values in Excel, it would be useful to know the different formatting options you can use with dates. Any date or time value in Excel would be a number in the back end that would represent that date or time. for example, 1 represents 1 Jan 1900, 2 represents 2 …

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How to Change Page Orientation in Excel?

How to Change Page Orientation in Excel

Page orientation can be important when planning to print your work in Excel. While the default page orientation in Excel is the Portrait mode (where the length of the page is more than the width), if you have a data set where there are more columns than rows, you may want to change the orientation …

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How to Add Axis Titles in Charts in Excel?

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Excel charts can be confusing for people, and it’s always a good idea to mark everything clearly in the chart. One chart element that is often missing in charts (which should ideally always be added) is the Axis Title. Most commonly used Excel charts have two axes (horizontal and vertical), and adding an axis title …

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