How to Change Row Height in Excel (5 Easy Ways)

Place the cursor at the edge of the row

Excel has cells that are neatly divided into rows and columns in a worksheet. And when you start working with data in Excel, one of the common tasks you have to do is to adjust the row height in Excel based on your data (or adjust the column width). It’s a really simple thing to …

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7 Easy Ways to Select Multiple Cells in Excel

Non adjacent ranges selected

Selecting a cell is one of the most basic things users do in Excel. There are many different ways to select a cell in Excel – such as using the mouse or the keyboard (or a combination of both). In this article, I would show you how to select multiple cells in Excel. These cells …

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How to Remove Leading Zeros in Excel (5 Easy Ways)

Formula to remove zero from alphanumeric string

Many people have a love-hate relationship with leading zeros in Excel. Sometimes you want it, and sometimes you don’t. While Excel has been programmed in such a way that it automatically removes any leading zeros from the numbers, there are some cases when you may have these. In this Excel tutorial, I will show you …

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How to Indent in Excel (3 Easy Ways + Keyboard Shortcut)

Indent in the lines in the same cell

By default, Excel aligns numbers to the right and text strings to the left in a cell. And if you don’t like these numbers/texts that are too close to the cell border, you also have an option to indent the content of the cell. You can indent to the left or to the right in …

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How to Unmerge Cells in Excel (3 Easy Ways + Shortcut)

Unmerged Cells

Excel has a lot of useful tools and features. There are some features that are widely used, but I wish were not so. The ability to merge cells is one such feature. While I don’t use this option myself, I still find myself unmerging cells (mostly in the workbooks shared by other people). In this …

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How to Get the First Day of the Month in Excel (Easy Formulas)

EOMONTH formula

Sometimes, you may need to know what’s the first day of the month based on a given date. When there is no dedicated function to get the first day of a given month, you can easily use a workaround to find it. In this Excel tutorial, I’ll show you some really simple formula that you …

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How to Convert Serial Numbers to Dates in Excel

TEXT formula result

Excel stores date and time values as serial numbers in the back end. This means that while you may see a date such as “10 January 2020” or “01/10/2020” in a cell, in the back-end, Excel is storing that as a number. This is useful as it also allows users to easily add/subtract date and …

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How to Delete All Hidden Rows and Columns in Excel

Click on Remove all to delete the hidden rows and columns

A lot of Excel users hide rows and columns when they have some data that they don’t need visible. It’s a way to only keep useful data visible, and at the same time not have to delete the data you don’t need to be visible. And, if you have lots of such hidden rows/columns, it …

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