Powerful Filter Button Options.
Once you have added Filter buttons to your data, either via the home menu or because you have a table, you have a lot of powerful options on how to use them. Filter by Color – if you have colours on your cells, either from formatting or conditional formatting, you can use this to filter […]
Getting started with Filter buttons.
Add Filter buttons to your data in Excel using Sort and Filter, then Filter. Found on the Home Menu. (Shortcut keys: Alt H, S, F). If you make your data into a Table, then you get the Filter buttons automatically. Learn more about Tables here. If you add filters to your data, you can access […]
Get Sorted, with Sort
If you have data in a list and you want to change the order, then you need to Sort. The simplest place to find sort is on the Home Menu, Under Sort & Filter. (Alt, H, S, S) If you have pre-selected a cell in the column you want to sort by, just choose Sort […]
Sum, Sum, Sum: Autosum: how to add in Excel.
Adding a column (or row) of numbers is possibly the most common thing you first come across when learning about spreadsheet formulas. There are multiple ways to enter the SUM function. Shortcut Key: ALT + = (That is holding down the ALT key, and the pressing the = key). Make sure you have selected the […]
Be Unique
The UNIQUE formula, in Excel, makes short work of removing duplicates from a list. It comes in two main formats. You can totally remove any items that appear more than once in your list, or just keep one instance of each item from the list. Here is an example where the duplicated items are removed […]
Sorted! Get sorted with SORT function.
Sorting used to have to be done in place, but the Excel SORT function allows you to present data from one place, in another place sorted by your specifications. Here is a simple example. This is a list of companies, in company order, their listings and market share. This is our original data. What if […]
Filter function: Return just the data you want to see.
A lot of users of Excel know about the filter buttons. You can read about them here: The filter function allows you to filter data into another place in your workbook, leaving your original data as is. Just like the filter buttons you can display some information from a list based on specified selection criteria. […]
XLOOKUP- You have the power!
XLOOKUP allows you to search through a list, find what you are looking for and return a value from a corresponding list…. and some other things that VLOOKUP couldn’t do. (To see a shorter introduction to XLOOKUP and how it compares to other LOOKUPS, see Hookups with data. =XLOOKUP(lookup_value, lookup_array, return_array, [if_not_found], [match_mode], [search_mode]) https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/xlookup-function-b7fd680e-6d10-43e6-84f9-88eae8bf5929 You need to provide […]
Hookups with data: (x, v, h) lookup and index match.
When you have data in one place, and you want to collect a certain piece of that information and return it somewhere else based on a given value, you probably want a lookup. Depending on the situation there are options about how to do that. The VLOOKUP (the V stands for Vertical) formula used to […]
Maths and Paste Special, together! What?
You can use Paste Special to do maths! Say you have a list of numbers, and for some reason you want to divide them all by 100. You could write a formula to do that, you could type a few answers and use flash fill, or you can use Paste Special. Type 100 into a […]