Sunday, 15 November 2020

Advanced Excel 2016 formulae hacks

 

How to locate the formula in a worksheet
How to go back from looking formula to the normal sheet
Shortcut for a quick print preview
How to print column and row numbers in the sheet
How to highlight the cells that contain formulas
How to highlight the cells that DO NOT have formulas
How to find the formula in the sheet using formula bar
How do we check all the dependencies of a cell
How to remove the dependencies arrows
How to trace from where the formula is coming
Shortcuts to highlight dependent cells affected by the value of cells but not arrows
Shortcuts to highlight precedent cells to the value of cells but not arrows
How to add two different rows
Autosum
How to make the active cell same after you have entered the formula
How to write a formula in one cell and convert it into value for the whole column
How to find flash fill in excel
How to convert a formula to value by dragging
How to convert a formula to value by dragging left or right
How to convert a column with a formula by dragging on to that column
How to update values without formula using paste special
Debugging Formula with the F9 Key
How named cells will help you in writing formula
How you can avoid using f4 key to fix an absolute address
You can use sum and average better using range name
How to delete a range name
How to show all the range names with ranges on the worksheet
How to summarise data from multiple identifcal sheet by clicking
How to summarise data from multiple identifcal sheet: another method: faster
Short cut for autosum
How to use autosum in a different ways
shortcut for format cell
How to apply a formula to all cell in the range at once
Tips for using long functions
Using IFS as a nested excel function
Use the full column or rows for V or H look up
Using H lookup
for less than or equal to lookup, the lookup table must be in ascending order
If you want to use vlookup the table better be trimmed before lookup
A typical example where you can use nested lookup
Using CHOOSE function to convert a date into quarter
Using the SWITCH function for formula embedded selection
To see if a number exist in some other list
How to use index function
Using Index and Match together
How many entries contain "Time" using COUNTIF
How to use filter to find entries containting Tim using wildcard symbol
How to use COUNTIFS with criteria eg. >3
How to use AVERAGEIFS with crieteria eg. > "Entry in some other cell"
How to find the maximum values by category
How to find the max values by category and greater than some date
How to total many sub ranges at one time
How to display the text of the formula
How to prevent double counting using SUBTOTAL
How to rank the entries with highest as First
How to rank the entries with highest as Last
How to rank the entries with the rank of common of those as the average
How to find the 2nd highest, 3rd highest 4th highest etc
How to count the blank cells
If you are getting stuck because there are blank cells in the table, convert it into table
COUNTA counts the number of cells that have data
COUNT counts the number of cells that have numbers
How to use the ROUND function
Don't use the increase decrease decimals a the tab for rounding
HOW to USE ROUNDUP or ROUNDDOWN function
How to express a number as a multiple of 100
Working with MROUND, CEILING and FLOOR for Specilized rounding
MROUND allows us to round to the nearest for example 05
CEILING allows us to round up to the nearest for example 05
FLOOR allows us to round down to the nearest for example 05
How to make a number that is divisible by eg. nearest 26
How to make a number that is divisible by nearest 26 UP
How to make a number that is divisible by nearest 26 DOWN
The difference between TRUNC and INT function is that the INT function always returns a lower value
ODD number is the nearest odd number moving away from zero
EVEN converts to nearest even number moving away from Zero
How to use MOD function
How to highlight every nth row in the worksheet
How to pull out 5 records at random
How to sort a sheet in the random order
How to generate data using whole numbers
How to turn the volatile random numbers into fixed ones
How to create random dates between two time frames
How to change the values of random numbers
How to use CONVERT
How to find average etc of data which have errors
How to show the aggregate ignoring hidden rows
Using the Roman and Arabic functions to display different number systems
The underlying concept is every date has a value starting from Jan 1st 1900
How to check the value of a date or time
How to create a date out of a year, month and a day
How to split a date into year, month and day
How to create a time out of hour, minute and second
How to split a time into hour, minute and second
Shortcut for putting today's date
Shortcut for putting today's time
How to write the current time
Today and now changes the cell dynamically
Comma button changes dates to days
Using data type button and selecting numbers changes days to dates
How to use DATEDIFF to count the number of Years, Months or days between two dates
How to find the day of the week from date using formatting
How to find the day of the week from date using WEEKDAY
Which number is which day of the week
How to change the number to day of the week using formatting
How to change a date that excludes weekdays
How to change the format of the adjacent cell by dragging
How to find the number of days between two dates not taking into consideration weekends
How to take holidays into account when finding the number of days between two dates
Remember Network days take into consideration first date and last date
Simple Difference between two dates doesn't take into considertation one of the start or end date
How to use NETWORKDAYS if the Sat and Sunday are not weekends, but some other combination or single
How to find the end date given a starting date and a period and given weekends
How to find the difference between two dates in years, months,days, hours,minutes and seconds
How to find the difference between a date and today in years, months,days, hours,minutes and seconds
How many days have passed since the last yearly anniversary
How many months have passed since the last yearly anniversary
How many days have passed since the last monthly anniversary
In DATEDIFF you don't get any tooltip
EDATE takes care of 30 or 31 days in a month
If there is a start date then after a period what will be the end date
How to get the end of the month date
How to get to the start of the next month date
If there is a end date then after a period what is the start date
How to find the last day of the current month
How to find the last date of the month immediately gone using EMONTH
How to find the last date of the month immediately gone using today and day(today())
How to do sum product using Array formula or find weighted average
How to find the average of the difference itemwise
What is the average amount of increase itemwise in the column
Counting Unique Entries in a range using ARRAY formula
Counting Unique Entries in a range using ARRAY formula even easily by converting it into a table
Determining frequency distribution with the FREQUENCY function
How to shift a row dominant matrix into a column matrix with all the formulas intact
How to add a TREND function to a series
How to add GROWTH function to a series
How to update last date or last value in a dynamic table using OFFSET
Find out the averge of last n values using OFFSET in a dynamic table
Returns the reference specified by a text string
How to create the two tiered pick list for data validation
How to get rid of blanks in the data validation list
How to find those sentences that have letter G in them
Search in a column how many times in one cell letter G is present
How to use Flash fill to extract the first two letters of cells in a column
How to use MID and FIND together to extract words in between the cells in a column
How to get everything in the left of comma
How to use CONCATENATE with ISBLANK
How to concatenate using a range
How to concatenate using a delimiter
REPLACE allows us to replace information basis the positition
How to replace 5th character with X
How to substitute all dashes with X
How to format a number as text with leading zeros
How to repeat a letter X five times
How to use TEXT, REPT and LEN to create an exactly 6 digit code
How to use CELL to write filename of the current file that we are using
How to find if the type is lower or upper case using TYPE
How to find the operating system version
How to see the directory using INFO
How to check if a cell contains a text or number
ERROR function refernece
How to find which cell contain a formula
How to highlight all cells whcih contain formula or which may contain formula

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