The world is ever-changing and the Excel universe can say the same. With changes in data, requirements, users (and even moods?), there may need to be a change in what bits of the dataset are made prominent or how.Changing from top 10 to top 5, from Data Bars to simple highlighting, from top 3 to the 90% percentile, highlighting cells with an … [Read more...]

Piles upon piles of data can quickly become overwhelming and Excel offers an equally quick solution to organize data and group it. Since deleting data can't be an option most of the time, grouping data allows you to choose which data you want to see and which you want to temporarily stow away.In addition to that, you can hide all the hundreds of … [Read more...]

Someone went overzealous with the visual ease of Conditional Formatting, slammed every Rule in the Conditional Formatting book, and made a circus out of a dataset. Too much Conditional Formatting is weighing your file down. Or maybe you're living a slightly easier work life than that and wanting to clear a Rule off the sheet is a small part of a … [Read more...]

Conditional Formatting is the quickest and easiest way to add visual impact to any dataset but a Conditional Formatting Rule can be prone to its simplicity and might not be doing what you want it to do.Our problem at hand, for now, is Conditional Formatting also highlighting blank cells when we would rather have them un-highlighted (and no one … [Read more...]

You have made a decision. You are, Excel-ly, not walking the manual route unless you must. Whether the file contains a single worksheet or a single hundred, putting together a list of all the worksheet names is not a situation demanding that you take the manual route so here we are. Welcome to Exceltrick's guide on getting all worksheet names in … [Read more...]

There has to be someone who it comes down to - to get the clerical work out of the way, fill the administrative shoes, fluff up the white collar. But sitting on the other side of an Excel screen, there’s no need for admin when Excel can be your minion. We’d say that we are counting today but that’s far from the truth; Excel is counting for us the … [Read more...]

You are seeing the formula itself instead of its calculated result, or seeing it without an equals sign, your formula is not responding to some changes, or is responding with an unexpected result. If we’ve hit the nail on the head, you are welcome to browse this tutorial on how to fix Excel formulas that are not calculating.The potential issues … [Read more...]

We’ve fallen into it so many times that we know exactly what it is by now but that doesn't have to be the case with you. Here’s a little menace that Ctrl + Z won’t undo and frankly, when Ctrl + Z ducks out, we go into a grain of digital frenzy. If your arrow keys are working your spreadsheet instead of the cell selection, that woe is called Scroll … [Read more...]