Excel

Excel is a powerful spreadsheet software that has been around for decades. It has become an essential tool for businesses, students, and individuals alike. One of the reasons for its popularity is the vast range of features it offers. However, some users may wonder why Excel has certain features that they may not use or understand. One reason for the various features in Excel is to make it a versatile tool that can cater to a wide range of users. Excel is used by people in different industries, from finance to engineering, and each user has unique needs. The developers of Excel have taken this into consideration and created features that can be useful to different users, depending on their requirements. ...

How do you use absolute cell references in a spreadsheet like Excel or Google Sheets? An absolute cell reference is a reference containing the common column letter and row number labels but around those labels are either one or two dollar signs. For example, the following references for cell A1 are all absolute references: $A$1, $A1 and A$1. What’s the difference between each of three references? The purpose of the dollar sign in front of the column label and/or the row label is that this fixes the column or label. This helps when copying a cell and you want the reference of the column or row or cell to remain static. ...

How do you make an email address in an Excel spreadsheet clickable? To make an email address clickable in a spreadsheet check the format of the cell is not set to text, if not when entering an email address Excel should automatically detect that it is an email address and add the mailto: hyperlink automatically. If after checking the cell is not set to Text and even after entering a valid email address Excel isn’t converting the entry to a hyperlinked mailto: address you can get Excel to force the cell to be a hyperlink using the HYPERLINK() function. ...

How do you get the value from a column that is to the left of a VLOOKUP range? The VLOOKUP function is a powerful function that enables you to capture the value from a range, provided the value is to the right of the lookup range. For example, suppose you have the following data in your spreadsheet that contains the employee ID in column A, the name of the employee in column B and their hire date in column C. You cannot search by column B to return column A using the VLOOKUP function. ...

What is the formula to add in Excel? There are two popular ways to add numbers together in Excel: using the plus sign + or using the SUM formula. Use the + sign where values being added are manually entered, and use SUM when referencing specific cell values. Here are some examples demonstrating the use of each type: When To Use + (Plus) Sign In a spreadsheet the plus sign can be used in the same way you use a calculator. However, to get the spreadsheet to begin adding the numbers you must prompt the cell by entering an equal sign =. This triggers the spreadsheet to know that it will need to do a calculation with what you’re about to enter. ...

If a cell contains words it can be easy to split these into individual cells using the Text to columns feature in Excel. Simply select the cells you want to split into multiple columns, navigate to the Data menu then click on the Text to Columns button. From this Text Wizard window select Delimited width (click Next >), then set the delimiter type to Space (click Next >) then click Finish. ...

When you start entering text into a cell and the first character of that cell is a plus symbol (+) you will get an error #NAME? and you would have noticed the cell changed to =+A. So how can you just display a cell with a plus sign? A 1 #NAME? =+A Result after starting cell with + To display a cell that starts with a plus sign (+) enter the symbol that lets the spreadsheet know you’re entering text by starting with the single apostrophe (') then entering your plus symbol and whatever ever text next. For example, your cell would now contain '+A. ...

When using large numbers in Excel or any other spreadsheet application, such as Google Sheets, some cells may display a number in scientific notation like 9.991E+35. How do you get rid of that E+n bit, where n is some number, in the cell? A 1 9.997E+11 =9999^3 Large number in cell The easiest way to change a number being displayed as E+n (where n is a number) is to right-click on the cell, click on the context menu item Format cells and then in the Number tab and the Category section select the option of Number. ...

The VLOOKUP formula is a popular function for getting the value from a tabular data set and has 3 required parameters and an optional fourth, and looks something like this: = V L O O K U P ( r e f e r e n c e _ v a l u e , d a t a , r e t u r n i n g _ c o l u m n _ v a l u e , [ i s _ s o r t e d ] ) The first parameter reference_value is the value you are searching for in the first column of your data set (the second parameter). The third parameter returning_column_value is the column from your data set that you wish to return, and the optional fourth parameter is_sorted is a boolean type where if this is true (by default it is) then the returned value from this formula will be its first match, otherwise if FALSE then returns the closest match. ...

If you are testing the return value of a function in the immediate window in VBA and get the following error: Wrong number of arguments or invalid property assignment (Error 450) What you are doing is something like this: Function GetCollection() As Collection Dim coll As New Collection coll.Add "Hello" coll.Add "World" Set GetCollection = coll End Function Then in the immediate window typing: ? GetCollection() The code appears to work fine, but the error is a mystery. The reason for the error is that the immediate window call expects a collection, but isn’t receiving one. ...