How to Combine Two Columns in Excel (with Space/Comma)

How to combine two columns in Excel into one

If you have data split across two columns, like first names in one and last names in another, you may want to pull them together into a single column. And the tricky part is usually getting the spacing right so the names don’t end up squished together. But nothing to worry about. It’s a quick …

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Calculate Confidence Interval in Excel

How to Calculate Confidence Interval in Excel

If you have a sample of data and you want to estimate the average for the whole group it came from, a single average number doesn’t tell the full story. You also want to know how much that average might be off. That’s what a confidence interval gives you. It’s a range around your sample …

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How to Unhide Rows in Excel (3 Easy Ways + Shortcut)

Unhide rows in Excel

If you have a few rows hidden in your worksheet and you want them back, Excel makes it quick. Most of the time it takes a couple of clicks. But sometimes you click around, try the obvious things, and the rows still won’t show up. That usually means something else is going on, like an …

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XLS vs XLSX – Key Differences

XLS vs XLSX

If you have been working with Excel files for a while, you have likely seen both .xls and .xlsx file extensions and wondered what the difference is. And this is because Excel switched its default file format back in 2007, so older files still hang around with the .xls extension, while everything new uses .xlsx. …

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CSV vs XLSX – Key Differences (and When to Use Each)

CSV vs XLSX (Excel) - Key Differences

If you’ve ever opened a CSV file in Excel and watched the formatting disappear, leading zeros vanish, or dates flip into something weird, you’re probably wondering whether you should even be using CSV in the first place. The short answer is that CSV and XLSX are very different formats built for very different jobs. In …

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Growing Annuity Formula in Excel

Growing Annuity Formula in Excel

A growing annuity is a series of payments where the amount goes up by the same percentage every period. Something like a pension that rises with inflation each year, a stock dividend that keeps getting raised, or a lease with a fixed annual rent hike. Excel doesn’t have a built-in function for this (the way …

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3 Easy Ways to Clip Text in Excel

Clip Text in Excel

If you have a cell with text that’s longer than the cell width, Excel lets that text spill over into the next column when that column is empty. Google Sheets has a built-in Clip option that cuts off the extra text right at the cell border. Unfortunately, Excel does not have a built-in Clip option. …

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Calculate Chi-Square in Excel

Chi Square Test in Excel

The Chi-Square test lets you figure out if two things in your data are actually related. Maybe you ran a survey and want to know if gender affects car color preference. Or you’re looking at student results and wondering whether the teaching method makes a difference in pass rates. It works with any data where …

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Convert Number to Words in Excel

Convert Number to Words in Excel

Excel doesn’t have a built-in function to convert numbers into words. But there are a couple of reliable ways to do it, and I’ll walk you through both in this article. Click here to download the example file Method 1: Using VBA Macro to Create Custom Function (Recommended) This is the most widely used and …

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