Excel Tips


Excel 2020: Protect Rows with an Array Formula »

August 3, 2020

Here is an odd use for an array formula: Say that you don‘t want anyone to delete or insert any rows in one section of a worksheet.


Excel 2020: Use WORKDAY.INTL for a Work Calendar »

July 29, 2020

While NETWORKDAYS calculates the work days between two dates, the WORKDAY function takes a starting date and a number of days, and it calculates the date that is a certain number of work days away.


Excel 2020: See Which Cells Depend on the Current Cell »

July 16, 2020

I previously explained how to Trace Precedents to See What Cells Flow into a Formula. Sometimes you have the opposite problem: You want to see which cells rely on the value in the current cell.


Excel 2020: Trace Precedents to See What Cells Flow into a Formula »

July 15, 2020

If you need to see which cells flow into a formula, you can use the Trace Precedents command in the Formula Auditing group on the Formulas tab.


Excel 2020: Highlight All Formula Cells »

July 13, 2020

If you are going to be auditing the worksheet, it would help to mark all of the formula cells.


Excel 2020: Skip Blanks While Pasting »

July 8, 2020

A mysterious part of the Paste Special dialog is the Skip Blanks feature. What does it do? Say that you have a list of existing values. In another column, you have updates for some of those values but not all of them.


Excel 2020: Use a Named Range Instead of Absolute References »

July 2, 2020

If you want to avoid using $ in references to make them absolute, you can use named ranges instead.


Stock & Exchange Rate History in Excel »

June 29, 2020

A new STOCKHISTORY function debuted in the beta channel of Excel for Office 365 last week. The function is able to pull historical stock prices and exchange rates at a daily, weekly or monthly interval.


Excel 2020: Text in the Values of a Pivot Table »

June 25, 2020

Another amazing use for a measure in a Data Model pivot table is to use the CONCATENATEX function to move text into the values area of a pivot table.