Excel Tips


Excel 2020: Provide Feedback with Sound »

December 10, 2020

Excel now provides confirmation with gentle sounds when you do many tasks.


Excel 2020: Use the Eye Dropper »

December 7, 2020

Another feature unique to PowerPoint is the eye dropper. If you want to use a particular color, you can just click the eye dropper on the color.


Excel 2020: Merge Shapes »

December 3, 2020

If you need to create a shape in Excel that is a combination of other shapes, create the shapes in PowerPoint.


Excel 2020: Render Excel Data on an iPad Dashboard Using Power BI »

November 12, 2020

Power BI provides a new way of creating interactive modern dashboards using data from Excel.


Excel 2020: Create a Data Table from a Blank Cell »

November 4, 2020

Simon Benninga tells a story of a game called Penny Pitching. You and another student would each flip a penny. If you get one head and one tail, you win the penny. If the coins match (heads/heads or tails/tails), the other student gets the penny.


Excel 2020: Speed Up VLOOKUP »

October 26, 2020

VLOOKUP is a relatively expensive function. When you are looking for an exact match, Excel has to look through the lookup table one row at a time.


Excel for Microsoft 365: Concatenate a Range by Using TEXTJOIN »

October 21, 2020

My favorite new calculation function in Office 365 is TEXTJOIN. What if you needed to concatenate all of the names in A1:A10? The formula =A1&A2&A3&A4&A5&A6&A7&A8&A9&A10 would jam everyone together like AndyBobCaroleDaleEdFloGloriaHelenIkeJill. By using TEXTJOIN, you can specify a delimiter such as ", ".


Excel 2020: Subscribe to Office 365 for Monthly Features »

October 14, 2020

From 1997 to 2013, there was a predictable release cycle for Microsoft Office. A new version would come out every three years. Your IT department would wait one year for the Service Pack to come out and then would consider upgrading.


Excel 2020: Replace Ctrl+Shift+Enter with Dynamic Arrays. »

October 5, 2020

Say that you have a friend who is superstitious about Friday the 13th. You want to illustrate how many Friday the 13ths your friend has lived through. Before Dynamic Arrays, you would have to use the formula.