Excel Tips


Slimming Selection Post Merge »

May 3, 2017

Merged cells are evil. I often am selecting a range of data, but then accidentally touch a merged cell. Bam! My selection rectangle just became three columns wide. I usually curse and start selection again, but there is a keyboard shortcut to narrow the selection back to the original width.


Prevent Scientific Notation on Import »

May 1, 2017

Stop Excel from converting your data to scientific notation when you import data from a CSV or TXT file.


Split Data »

April 28, 2017

How to separate a column of Excel data in to two columns. How to parse data in Excel.


Fill Dates in ALL CAPS »

April 27, 2017

Excel can the fill handle fill dates in ALL CAPS?


Alphabetize Worksheets »

April 26, 2017

Pam would like to arrange her worksheet tabs alphabetically. This is not a command in Excel, but using a short macro, you can add it to your Quick Access Toolbar.


Ctrl+F for Sheet Names? »

April 25, 2017

Excel - Can you use the Find dialog to find a worksheet name?


Macro Create Sheets from Cells »

April 24, 2017

You have a column of text. For each text in the column, you want to insert a new worksheet and name that worksheet for the value in the cell.


Month to Date »

April 21, 2017

How to show Month-To-Date sales in a pivot table. This is a Dueling Excel episode.


Grouping Text in Pivot »

April 20, 2017

Excel Pivot Tables will let you group similar text entries. Say you wanted to group Chicago, Cleveland, and Detroit into a territory called Midwest. This article shows you how.