Highlight Dates Before Today in Excel

Entire row has been highlighted

A lot of people use dates in Excel for planning and keeping track of tasks and activities. For example, below I have a data set where I have the tasks in column A and their due dates in column B. It would be useful if there was a way to automatically highlight dates before today, …

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How to Convert Seconds to Minutes in Excel (Easy Formula)

Enter mmss in the field

If you want to convert seconds values to minutes in Excel, it is not as straightforward as dividing it by 60. This is because Excel has a specific way of storing date and time values in Excel. While a full day is stored as a whole number in Excel, time values are stored as fractions/decimals. …

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20 Advanced Excel Functions and Formulas (for Excel Pros)

20 Advanced Excel Functions and Formulas (for Excel Pros)

Excel has 450+ functions that can do a range of awesome things. If you’ve used Excel even for a few days, I am sure you have heard of functions like VLOOKUP, SUMIF, COUNTIF, and so on. And what is more awesome is that one Excel function – a formula that consists of two, three, or …

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How to Sum Across Multiple Sheets in Excel? (3D SUM Formula)

3D Sum value in summary sheet

If you need to get the sum across multiple worksheets, you can use one of the less-known Excel feature called 3D referencing. With 3D referencing, you can refer to the same cell in multiple worksheets, and can also use this in formulas such as the SUM or AVERAGE, or COUNT. In this short tutorial, I …

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How to Make a Yes/No Drop-Down in Excel? (Easy Ways)

Drop down shows up in the selected cell

The drop-down feature in Excel is quite useful when doing data entry. Using it, you can create a drop-down in a cell that will show you all the pre-populated options that you can choose from. It saves time as you can simply choose from the list instead of entering it manually, and it also helps …

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How to Show or Hide the Ribbon in Excel? (with Shortcuts)

Click on the ribbon display options icon

Excel ribbon is the area at the top of the worksheet that contains most of the frequently used commands. In the ribbon, we have different tabs (such as the ‘Home’ tab or the ‘Insert’ tab), and within each tab, we have the relevant commands. Most Excel users would find everything they need somewhere in the …

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Show Negative Numbers in Parentheses (Brackets) in Excel (Easy Ways)

Result with negative number in bracket with minus sign

Since Excel is used by people in different professions and across industries, Excel allows you to show numbers in many different formats. When working with financial data and creating accounting reports, one common number format that needs to be used is to show negative numbers in brackets (parentheses). While the default setting in Excel is …

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How to Customize the Ribbon in Excel (Step-by-Step)

Customize the Ribbon option

Excel ribbon was introduced in Excel 2007, which allowed users to access all the important tools and functionalities from one single place. Personally, I think the Excel ribbon was a huge improvement over the earlier menu option, as it made it more user-friendly for people to find useful options in one place. While it wasn’t …

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