How to Get Unique Items from a List in Excel Using Formulas

In this blog post, I will show you a formula to get a list unique items from a list in excel that has repetitions. While this can be done using Advanced Filter or Conditional Formatting, the benefit of using a formula is that it makes your unique list dynamic. This means that you continue to get …

Read more

Excel Custom Number Formatting Tricks

Formatting to hide all text values

Excel Custom Number formatting is the clothing for data in excel cells. You can dress these the way you want. All you need is a bit of know-how of how Excel Custom Number Format works. With custom number formatting in Excel, you can change the way the values in the cells show up, but at the …

Read more

Display Main and Subcategory in Drop Down List in Excel

Someone recently asked me if it was possible to get a main category and subcategory in a drop-down list in Excel, (something as shown below): My first thought was to do this using VBA (if possible), but the answer is so easy, it surprised me. Creating Subcategory in Drop Down List in Excel All you need …

Read more

Use VLookup to Get the Last Number in a List in Excel

Excel has its own limitations, and in this blog post, I will show you how we can use one of the limitations to our advantage. Get the Last Number in a List in Excel using Excel VLOOKUP Function The largest positive number that you can use in Excel is 9.99999999999999E+307 (I tried this in Excel 2010). …

Read more

How to do a Picture Lookup in Excel – A Step-by-step Guide

There are many lookup functions in Excel (such as VLOOKUP, LOOKUP, INDEX/MATCH, XLOOKUP) that can go and fetch a value from a list. But you can’t look-up images using these formulas. For example. if I have a list of team names and their logos, and I want to look up the logo based on the …

Read more

Using Conditional Formatting in Excel (The Ultimate Guide + Examples)

Conditional Formatting is one of the most simple yet powerful features in Excel Spreadsheets. As the name suggests, you can use conditional formatting in Excel when you want to highlight cells that meet a specified condition. It gives you the ability to quickly add a visual analysis layer over your data set. You can create …

Read more

Excel Wildcard Characters – What are these and How to Best Use it

There are only 3 Excel wildcard characters (asterisk, question mark, and tilde) and a lot can be done using these. In this tutorial, I will show you four examples where these Excel wildcard characters are absolute lifesavers. Excel Wildcard Characters – An Introduction Wildcards are special characters that can take any place of any character (hence …

Read more

Get the FREE 51 Excel Tips Ebook

Enter your details and the free PDF is on its way to your inbox.

Hmm, that didn't go through. Please check your email and try again.

No spam. You'll also get my weekly Excel newsletter. Unsubscribe anytime.

Check your inbox!

The ebook is on its way to your email. It usually lands within a couple of minutes.