Sort by Birthday [Quick tip]
Lets say you have a list of employees and their birthdays. Now you want to sort this list, based on their birthday, not age. How would you do it?
5 Keyboard shortcuts for writing better formulas
As an analyst (or manager), I bet a good portion of your Excel time is spent writing formulas and getting the results.
So today, let us learn 5 important keyboard shortcuts that will save you a lot of time and help you write better formulas.
Introduction to Structural References
Ever seen a formula like =SUMIFS(Sheet1!B2:B3923, Sheet1!C2:C3923, A1, Sheet1!D2:D3923, A2) and wondered what it is really doing?!?
If so, you are not alone.
Formulas written with cell references tend to look complicated and clunky. What if we could write formulas in plain English?
That is what Structural References do. When using structural references in formulas, your focus will be on your data, not on which cell ranges the data takes up.
For example, you can write formulas like these:
1) SUM(mySales[no. of customers]) to find how many customers we had.
2) SUMIFS(mySales[no. of customers], mySales[product], “FastCar”) to find how many customers bought “FastCar”
How to remove all cells containing John (or anything else) [Quick tip]
Here is an interesting question someone asked me recently,
If I have to delete all rows with “John” in it. Do you know how to do it?
Well, it looks like they really hate John. But it is none of my business.
So lets go ahead and understand a dead-simple way to get rid of all cells with John or whoever else you fancy.
Transpose a table quickly using Copy – Paste [Quick tips]
On Friday, we learned how to transpose a table of data using Excel formulas. Today lets learn a quicker & easier way to do this by just using copy, paste, find & replace.
Check Cells for Equality – Follow Up [Quick Tip]
Excel contains an often overlooked function
The Excel = Function
Today we quickly review what it can do for us.
18.2 Tips on Rounding numbers using Excel Formulas
Lets talk round numbers today.I have 18.2 tips for you on round numbers.
We can use a variety of formulas to round numbers in Excel depending on the situation. We have ROUND, ROUNDUP, ROUNDDOWN, MROUND, INT, TRUNC, CEILING, FLOOR, FIXED, EVEN, ODD and few more. To know how to use all these formulas and how to round numbers based on any criteria, just read on.