How to Concatenate in Excel – The Ultimate Guide

Often the data in your spreadsheets is not according to your needs, so you may need to replace some strings, split some text, merge cells or concatenate data to format the data as per your needs.In this tutorial, we are going to learn different ways to concatenate cells, columns, and ranges in excel. So, without further ado, let’s dive right … [Read more...]

How to Subtract Dates and Times in Excel

In the last article, we worked with the DATVALUE function to convert dates from text to a serial number. Now let’s take things up a notch and look at some formulas that will enable us to manipulate dates and times in a worksheet.In this tutorial, we will try to understand how to subtract dates in Excel and calculate the difference between dates … [Read more...]

Excel DATEVALUE Function – How To Use

The DATEVALUE function serves a simple purpose. It converts a date written as a text string into a serial number that Excel can recognize. While it looks (and indeed is) pretty straightforward, the DATEVALUE function provides powerful ammunition for converting dates, which consequently enables us to manipulate them with formulas and pivot … [Read more...]

Excel DATE Function – How To Use

The DATE function is a financial analyst's best pal and categorized as a Date/Time function in Excel. The criticality of the DATE function's role is sourced from Excel's reluctance to keep the day, month, and year as a date. Instead, Excel stores them as a serial number.Directly handing over dates as a text string may not work well for all Excel … [Read more...]

Excel FILTER Function – How To Use

The FILTER function is an Excel function that lets you fetch or "filter" a data set based on the criteria supplied via an argument. The FILTER function was introduced in Office 365 and will not be accessible in Office 2019 or earlier versions.FILTER is an in-built worksheet function and belongs to Excel's new Dynamic Arrays function category. The … [Read more...]

Excel IFERROR Function – How To Use

IFERROR function provides a great way to handle errors in Excel formulas. Excel IFERROR function returns a custom result (which can be a text, cell reference, or another formula) when the expression enclosed inside it returns an error.IFERROR helps you catch and address problems with your formulas so you can have clean and orderly spreadsheets. … [Read more...]

How to Find and Fix Circular References in Excel

A circular reference occurs when you end up having a formula in a cell – which in itself uses the cell reference (in which it’s been entered) for the calculation. If this statement seems a bit confusing, don’t worry by the end of this tutorial it will start to make sense.In simple terms, a circular reference happens when a formula references back … [Read more...]

Excel SUBSTITUTE Function – How to Use

The SUBSTITUTE function in Microsoft Excel is a handy tool that enables users to replace single or multiple instances of a specific character or text string with a different character or text string. To see how this works on a spreadsheet, we will discuss the syntax and four arguments of the Excel SUBSTITUTE function.Next, we will try our hand at … [Read more...]