Excel Tips and Tricks
How to Mark a Workbook as Final in Excel - Mark as Final
Document-based Microsoft Office applications like Excel, Word, and PowerPoint include a Mark as Final feature to inform the other users not to update the file. If Mark as Final feature is active for a document, Excel welcomes the user with a warning message. In this...
How to Perform Trend Analysis in Excel
Trend Analysis is an important tool for decision making, which allows you to analyze the historical patterns to predict future events. Excel is not shy about tools that help you in the process. In this guide, we’re going to show you How to perform trend analysis in...
How to Perform Trend Analysis with Charts in Excel
Excel charts can do more than visualizing the data, like calculating and showing trends and moving averages. In this guide, we’re going to show you How to perform trend analysis with charts in Excel. [button...
How to Calculate Selected Cells Only in Excel
Although manual calculation mode helps to deal with big files that take seconds or minutes to be calculated, waiting for the calculation of the entire workbook may not be convenient. Instead, it would be better to calculate certain cells for quick try-error changes....
How to create ridgeline plot (joy plot) in Excel
A ridgeline plot, also known as a joy plot, is a chart type visualizing the data as overlapping density curves. Joy plots got its name from the album cover Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division in 1979. They are good-looking visualizations for comparing the distributions...
How to Store User Defined Function in Excel
The ability to create a User-Defined Function (UDFs in short) is an awesome feature of Excel. It basically removes the limitation of built-in functions. Aside from coding them, storing and distribution of UDFs are another point. In this guide, we’re going to show you...
How to Create Tornado Charts in Excel
A Tornado Chart is a fancy form of a bar chart. They shine when the goal is to compare two variables. Although Excel doesn't support tornado charts natively, they are a few simple steps far away from you. In this guide, we’re going to show you How to Create Tornado...
How to make words plural in Excel
Neither words nor grammar is where Excel shines. On the other hand, texts may be handful to inform users what a numeric value means, such as units. Making this type of information changed between singular and plural forms dynamically may increase the end-user...
How to seasonal forecast with formulas in Excel
Big or small, all business operations need forecasting. Forecasting can be either qualitative or quantitative. In the end, you should estimate future incomes and expenses to draw up a budget. Since each business sector and the company have their own dynamics, there is...