How to Remove Conditional Formatting in Excel (Shortcut + VBA)

Select the cells from which you want to remove conditional formatting

I love using Conditional Formatting in Excel. It allows me to quickly highlight and format cells based on specified conditions. While Conditional Formatting is great, it’s also volatile – which means that if you have a lot of conditional formatting rules applied to large data sets, it can slow down your Excel file. So, I …

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How to Edit Cells in Excel? (Shortcuts)

Select only part of the text

Cells are the building blocks of a worksheet in Excel. Most Excel users spend the majority of their time working with the cells in Excel – be it entering data or formulas or editing the already entered formulas/text. In this tutorial, I will cover everything you need to know about editing cells in Excel. While …

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How to Show Pivot Table Fields List? (Get Pivot Table Menu Back)

Pivot Table Fields Menu disappears

The Pivot Table feature is used by many Excel users – beginners as well advanced. One thing that often troubles new Pivot Table users is when they find that a Pivot Table Fields list (some people call this Pivot Table Fields menu) goes missing. You can’t do much with a Pivot table if you do …

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Move Pivot Table to Different Worksheet or Workbook (Easy Steps)

Click on Move Pivot Table Option

Pivot tables are very easy to create and even easier to move to some other worksheet or a new worksheet in the same Excel workbook. Many Excel users often end up creating multiple Pivot tables in the same worksheet, which is not a very organized way of doing things. But thanks to a readily available …

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Best Shortcuts to Fill Color in Excel (Basic & Advanced)

Select the color you want to fill

Filling a background color in a cell or range of cells is a common task that most of Excel users have to do on a daily basis. While it’s quite easy to fill color in a cell in Excel (using the inbuilt option in the ribbon), it’s not the fastest way to do it. And …

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Using Active Cell in VBA in Excel (Examples)

Active cell address is shown in the name box

‘Active Cell’ is an important concept in Excel. While you don’t have to care about the active cell when you’re working on the worksheet, it’s an important thing to know when working with VBA in Excel. Proper use of the active cell in Excel VBA can help you write better code. In this tutorial, I …

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Separate Text and Numbers in Excel (4 Easy Ways)

GETTEXT formula

Sometimes you may have the text and numeric data in the same cell, and you may have a need to separate the text portion and the number portion in different cells. While there is no inbuilt method to do this specifically, there are some Excel features and formulas you can use to get this done. …

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How to Autofill Only Weekday Dates in Excel (Formula)

Formula to get weekdays only in Excel

While working with dates in Excel, you may have a need to fill a column only with the dates that occur on a weekday. This is usually needed when you’re creating a project plan, where only the weekday dates can be used, and the weekend dates are holidays. In this short tutorial, I am going …

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How To Convert Date To Serial Number In Excel?

Select the Number category

There are multiple ways you can display a number in a cell in Excel. And one of the ways you can format a number is to show it as a date (for that corresponding serial number) When you see a date in a cell in Excel, in the back end it is still stored as …

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