Excel Tabs/Sheets Not Showing – How to Fix?

Select Advanced in the Excel options dialog box

The default setting in Excel is to show all the tabs (also called sheets) below the working area. But if you can’t see any tabs and are wondering where has it disappeared, worry not. There are some possible reasons that may have been the cause of missing tabs in your Excel workbook. In this article, …

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How to Switch Between Sheets in Excel?

Watch Window Docked below the ribbon

Working with a large Excel workbook that has multiple sheets could be challenging. Even advanced Excel users feel overwhelmed when trying to switch between multiple worksheets in the same workbook. Imagine working on an Excel workbook with 15 worksheets, and having to constantly switch between worksheets #3 and #12. There are multiple ways to switch …

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Excel Quick Analysis Tool – How to Best Use it?

Click on running total

Excel Quick Analysis Tool allows you to quickly analyze data. It gives you quick access to some of the commonly used data analysis functionalities in Excel so that you don’t have to go into the ribbon and find the correct option (hence saving some clicks and a little bit of time). In this tutorial, I …

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Convert Scientific Notation to Number or Text in Excel

TRIM formula to show large numbers

If you enter a number that has more than 11 digits in a cell in Excel, it will automatically be converted into the scientific notation (as shown below). While the number in the back end would still remain the same, Excel changes the way it shows you that number. Sometimes that’s what you want, and …

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Remove Characters From Left in Excel (Easy Formulas)

Formula to remove all text from the left

Cleaning text data is often the most time-consuming task for many Excel users. Unless you’re among the few lucky ones, you’ll most likely get your data in a format that would need some cleaning. One common use case of this would be when you get a dataset and you have to remove some characters from …

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How to Compare Dates in Excel (Greater/Less Than, Mismatches)

Comparing Dates using the INT formula

One area that often troubles Microsoft Excel users is working with dates. This is mostly because dates can be formatted in many different ways in Excel. So while you may see two dates in Excel and think those are the same, there is a possibility that these might be different values in the back end …

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