How to Make All Cells the Same Size in Excel

Uneven Excel grid next to a grid where all cells are the same size

If you want to make all the cells in your worksheet the same size, you may have noticed that Excel doesn’t have a single button that does it. Your rows and columns end up looking uneven no matter what you try. But nothing to worry about. Once you select everything first and set one width …

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How to Use XLOOKUP with Multiple Criteria in Excel

XLOOKUP with multiple criteria in Excel, matching a city and room type to one row of a rate table

To use XLOOKUP with multiple criteria, you combine your conditions into something one lookup value can find. XLOOKUP only takes a single lookup value, so this small workaround is what lets it match on two, three, or more columns. In this article, I’ll show you three ways to do it, starting with the one I …

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Excel Table vs Range: Key Differences and When to Use Each

Excel Table expands to include a new row, while a fixed range reference leaves the new row outside its boundaries.

If you’re deciding between an Excel Table and a normal range, start with how you’ll use the data. For a list that keeps growing, a Table can save you from updating formulas and report sources each time you add records. For a report layout or a few input cells, a normal range gives you more …

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SUMIF vs SUMIFS in Excel: What’s the Difference?

SUMIF vs SUMIFS in Excel, illustrated with one condition and multiple conditions feeding into sum symbols

If you want to add up numbers based on a condition, Excel gives you two functions that look almost identical, SUMIF and SUMIFS. And it’s not always obvious which one you should pick. The short version is that SUMIF handles one condition and SUMIFS handles one or more. But there are a few less obvious …

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How to Use IF with AND in Excel to Check Multiple Conditions

IF and AND in Excel checking sales and rating conditions to return Yes or No

If you want to check whether two or more conditions are true at the same time, a plain IF function won’t get you there. For example, you may want to pass a student only if they scored at least 50 and also have 75% attendance. That’s because IF only tests one condition at a time. …

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How to Remove Password from Excel (File, Workbook, and Sheet)

Remove Password from Excel

If you know the password and just want Excel to stop asking for it, you may have noticed there’s no single “remove password” button. That’s because Excel has four different kinds of passwords, and each one lives in a different place. But once you know which one you’re dealing with, removing it takes less than …

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How to Insert a Checkbox in Excel (New In-Cell Checkboxes)

Checkboxes in Excel - insert and use the new in-cell checkboxes

If you want to insert a checkbox in Excel, whether it’s for a to-do list, a tracker, or an interactive chart, this has now become really easy. Earlier, Excel only had checkboxes that floated over the worksheet as separate objects, and you had to enable the Developer tab just to get to them. Excel now …

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