What do you do when you have to copy a range of cells in Excel and paste it somewhere else? In most cases, the below three steps get the work done: But what if you have some hidden cells in the dataset? Then – these above three steps are not enough. Let me show you what happens when you try to copy cells that have hidden rows/columns in it. Suppose you have a dataset as shown below:...
Running total (also called cumulative sum) is quite commonly used in many situations. It’s a metric that tells you what’s the sum of the values so far. For example, if you have the monthly sales data, then a running total would tell you how much sales have been done till a specific day from the first day of the month. There are also some other situations where running total is often used, such as calculating your cash balance in your bank statements/ledger, counting calories in your meal plan, etc....
An Excel project may require you to summarize your data by date intervals. One such date interval is the quarter. A quarter is a three-month interval, so there are four quarters in every year. These are the standard calendar year quarters. Quarter 1 includes all dates between January 1st and March 31st.Quarter 2 includes all dates between April 1st and June 30th.Quarter 3 includes all dates between July 1st and September 30th....
Note: The table name is not required. However, Excel will add the table name automatically if omitted. In the example shown, the formula in B5 is: The first ROW returns 5, since ROW is provided no argument, and resides in cell B5. The second ROW uses a structured reference: The header row resolves to the range $B$4:$F$4, so ROW returns 4. For the first 3 rows of the table, we have:...
where “first” is a reference to the first cell to include in the average and “last” is a reference to the last cell to include. The result is a range that includes the N cells to average. To get the first cell in the range, we use INDEX like this: The array is the entire Sales column, and row number worked by subtracting (n-1) from total rows. In the example, F4 contains 3, so the row number is 10-(3-1) = 8....
The FILTER function takes three arguments: array, include, and if_empty. Array is the range or array to filter. The include argument should consist of one or more logical tests. These tests should return TRUE or FALSE based on the evaluation of values from array. The last argument, if_empty, is the result to return when FILTER finds no matching values. Typically this is a message like “No records found”, but other values can be returned as well....
The MAXA function takes multiple arguments in the form number1, number2, number3, etc. up to 255 total. Arguments can be a hardcoded constant, a cell reference, or a range, in any combination. Examples Like the MAX function, the MAXA function returns the largest number in the supplied data: MAXA can be used with constants, cell references, or ranges: MAXA vs. MAX The primary difference between MAX and MAXA is that MAXA evaluates TRUE and FALSE values as 1 and 0, and text values as zero when these values appear in a range or in a cell reference....
NETWORKDAYS.INTL takes four arguments: start_date, end_date, weekend, and holidays. The start_date, end_date and holidays arguments must be valid Excel dates. The weekend argument controls which days of the week are considered weekends, and therefore not included in the count. Holidays are also treated as non-working days and will not be included in the result. Both the weekend and holidays arguments are optional. By default, NETWORKDAYS.INTL will exclude Saturdays and Sundays, but this can be customized as explained below....
Dave Bruns Hi - I’m Dave Bruns, and I run Exceljet with my wife, Lisa. Our goal is to help you work faster in Excel. We create short videos, and clear examples of formulas, functions, pivot tables, conditional formatting, and charts.
Dave Bruns Hi - I’m Dave Bruns, and I run Exceljet with my wife, Lisa. Our goal is to help you work faster in Excel. We create short videos, and clear examples of formulas, functions, pivot tables, conditional formatting, and charts.
Dave Bruns Hi - I’m Dave Bruns, and I run Exceljet with my wife, Lisa. Our goal is to help you work faster in Excel. We create short videos, and clear examples of formulas, functions, pivot tables, conditional formatting, and charts.
Dave Bruns Hi - I’m Dave Bruns, and I run Exceljet with my wife, Lisa. Our goal is to help you work faster in Excel. We create short videos, and clear examples of formulas, functions, pivot tables, conditional formatting, and charts.
Note: in Excel 2016 for Mac, you can use F1 to launch help. Dave Bruns Hi - I’m Dave Bruns, and I run Exceljet with my wife, Lisa. Our goal is to help you work faster in Excel. We create short videos, and clear examples of formulas, functions, pivot tables, conditional formatting, and charts.
Dave Bruns Hi - I’m Dave Bruns, and I run Exceljet with my wife, Lisa. Our goal is to help you work faster in Excel. We create short videos, and clear examples of formulas, functions, pivot tables, conditional formatting, and charts.
Both formulas return TRUE if the value in A1 is greater than 65. The TRUE function is provided for compatibility with other spreadsheet applications and there is no need to use it if you are creating a spreadsheet in Excel. To return TRUE as a result in a formula, just enter TRUE directly into a cell or formula. Note that logical expressions will automatically generate TRUE and FALSE results. For example, the formula below will TRUE or FALSE: To test a condition and return different results based on whether the results are TRUE or FALSE, see the examples on this page....
In the example shown, the formula in F5 is: E5 contains the string “calc” so, after concatenation, the MATCH function looks like this: and returns 3 inside index as “row_num”: Although the range B5:D5 is horizontal and contains just one row, INDEX correctly retrieves the 3rd item in the range: “calc 1500”. Dave Bruns Hi - I’m Dave Bruns, and I run Exceljet with my wife, Lisa. Our goal is to help you work faster in Excel....
This approach can be useful when a worksheet is routinely edited in a way that would break traditional cell references. This reference to cell B5 won’t change during copy/paste/cut operations, or when columns or rows are inserted/deleted in a worksheet. The INDIRECT function accepts text, and evaluates that text as a reference. As a result, the text is not susceptible to changes, like a normal cell reference. It will continue to evaluate to the same location regardless of changes to the worksheet....
Because tables support structured references, you can learn a lot about a table with basic formulas. On this sheet, Table1 contains employee data. Let’s run through some examples. To start off, you can use the ROWS function to count table rows. This is the count of data rows only. You can see we have 19 people in the list. You can use the COLUMNS function to count columns. To get a total count of table cells, you can use a formula with both functions....
In the example shown, the formula in cell B5 is: In the example shown, months is supplied as -2, which causes EOMONTH to return 4/30/2015. Then, 1 day is added to get 5/1/2015. Dave Bruns Hi - I’m Dave Bruns, and I run Exceljet with my wife, Lisa. Our goal is to help you work faster in Excel. We create short videos, and clear examples of formulas, functions, pivot tables, conditional formatting, and charts....
Note: this is a pretty sloppy formula, but will work in many situations because TRIM cleans up extra spaces, including the case where there is no middle name. It won’t work if the names contain titles or suffixes that occur before the first name or after the last name. At the core, the MID function extracts text from the full name starting at 1 character after the length of the first name....
