How to Lock Cells in Excel

Sometimes you may want to lock cells in Excel so that other people can’t make changes to it. It could be to avoid tampering of critical data or prevent people from making changes in the formulas. How to Lock Cells in Excel Before we learn how to lock cells in Excel, you need to understand …

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How to Group Numbers in Pivot Table in Excel

You can group numbers in Pivot Table to create frequency distribution tables. This helps in analyzing numerical values by grouping it into ranges. A simple example of this could be to analyze how many students scored marks between 40 and 50 and how many got marks between 50 and 60 and so on.. Another example …

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Preparing Source Data For Pivot Table

Having the data in the right format is a crucial step in creating a robust and error-free Pivot Table. If not done the right way, you can end up having a lot of issues with your pivot table. What is a good design for the Source data for Pivot Table? Let’s have a look at …

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Convert Text to Numbers in Excel

It’s common to find numbers stored as text in Excel. This leads to incorrect calculations when you use these cells in Excel functions such as SUM and AVERAGE (as these functions ignore cells that have text values in it). In such cases, you need to convert cells that contain numbers as text back to numbers. Now …

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Using Slicers in Excel Pivot Table – A Beginner’s Guide

Excel 2010 version of the Pivot Table was jazzed up by the entry of a new super cool feature – Slicers. A Pivot Table Slicer enables you to filter the data when you select one or more than one options in the Slicer box (as shown below). In the example above, Slicer is the orange box on …

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How to Refresh Pivot Table in Excel (Manually + Auto-Refresh with VBA)

Once you have created a Pivot Table, it doesn’t automatically refresh when you add new data or change the existing data. Since your Pivot Table is created using the Pivot Cache, when the existing data changes or when you add new rows/columns to the data, the Pivot Cache does not update itself automatically, and hence, …

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How to Make a Pivot Table in Excel (Easy Step-by-Step)

If you are reading this tutorial, there is a big chance you have heard of (or even used) the Excel Pivot Table. It’s one of the most powerful features in Excel (no kidding). The best part about using a Pivot Table is that even if you don’t know anything in  Excel, you can still do pretty …

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How to Calculate and Format Percentages in Excel

Often, there are two types of percentages that one needs to calculate in Excel. In this tutorial, I will show you the formula to calculate percentages in Excel as well as to format the cell so that the numbers show up as percentages (and not decimals). So let’s get started! Calculating Percentage as a Proportion …

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