Excel Tips and Tricks
How to use a wildcard in Excel formula
Excel supports wildcard characters in formulas to find values that share a simple pattern. For example, if you are looking for a string with known ending or beginning, and unknown characters in the middle, you can use wildcard characters to tell Excel to...
With Autofill Excel Shows Its Smarts and Saves You Time
Autofill is an essential feature that any Excel user must be constantly using as it saves tremendous amount of time when creating spreadsheets. The capabilities of this feature range from simple copy-paste tasks to automatically creating entire tables, or transferring...
Data Validation: Excel Doing the Data Cleaning for You
One of the most versatile features of Excel that is data validation can validate user entries based on rules set by you. With this feature, you can impose strict rules on cells where users can’t enter any invalid data, or display warning messages to make your users...
How to delete blank rows in Excel using Power Query
Getting rid of blank rows in your data can be cumbersome, especially when working with large data sets. To add to your problems, Excel uses blanks as limits for ranges when you add tables or sort data, or try to use shortcuts. There are various methods to...
How to remove blank rows in Excel using sorting
Blank rows can be a not so small nuisance in data collection applications. In addition to making data management harder, an unorganized data set filled with blanks can mess with your calculations. Furthermore, Excel uses blanks as limits of ranges when you...
How to calculate standard deviation in Excel
One of the fundamental operations of statistical analysis is calculating the standard deviation of a data set. In this article, we're going to show you how to calculate standard deviation in Excel using the STDEV.S and STDEV.P functions. Syntax =STDEV.S(...
How to calculate mean in Excel
Calculating the mean of numbers is one of staples of statistical analysis processes. In this article, we're going to show you how to calculate mean in Excel using the AVERAGE formula. Syntax =AVERAGE( array of numbers ) Steps Begin by creating the formula...
How to stop excel from changing numbers to dates
Excel changes some numbers or strings to dates to be "user-friendly" and ease the date entering process. However, Excel does so without actually asking you, and ironically, there is no option to turn this off. In this article, we're going to show you how...
How to Disable Excel Automatic Calculations
Welcome to our simple guide on making Excel run faster! Excel is a popular program used for all sorts of tasks, like organizing data and making calculations. But sometimes, when you have a lot of data or complex formulas, Excel can start to slow down. This can be a...