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When an object has been placed in the same row as your data and you delete some of your rows, you may find that your object will either be compressed or deleted completely. This can easily be avoided by changing a setting in your object properties, thus preventing your object from distorting in Excel. In […]
Do you need to know how many customers you have invoiced this month? When creating a Pivot Table and adding your customers to both the row labels and again in the value area, each transaction is totaled for each customer. This does not give a true reflection of how many customers you have invoiced. In […]
Have you ever needed to create a forecast report in Microsoft® Excel®? How did you calculate the projections? Whichever methods you used, Microsoft has made this much simpler with a new feature called Forecast Sheet. All you need to do is provide the input, and with a single click of the new Forecast Sheet button, Excel […]
If you start each day needing to use a frequently used workbook, e.g. daily sales report, to-do list, calendar, etc, then this tip is for you. You can automatically open these workbooks, by simply adding the workbooks or a shortcut in the XLStart folder. This is a specific folder that Microsoft® Excel® uses in which files […]
Auditing and troubleshooting formulas in Microsoft® Excel® can be time consuming and difficult. That is why the FORMULATEXT function is helpful because it simplifies formulae error checking and correction. The formula text can easily be extracted without having to copy and paste. The FORMULATEXT function syntax has one required input—a reference to a cell or […]
If you’ve created a Microsoft® Excel® report that needs to be printed double-sided (e.g. booklet form), you may want to have your headers or footers printed on different sides of the paper—left hand side for odd pages, and right hand side for even pages. To achieve this effect, follow this tip and use the Page […]
Charts are used for creating a graphical presentation of the data. A common practice when creating charts is to create them off of a filtered Pivot Table, usually a Top 5 or a Top 10 Pivot Table. Slicers can then be added to interactively filter the data in the chart. When filtering data with the […]
Let’s say you want to count cells that contain the number of employees in a data range, and would like to ignore any blank cells. The way to go about doing this is to use the COUNTA function. The COUNTA function is a way to count cells containing any type of information, including error values […]
When creating an Excel formula, sometimes the result you get is not quite the one you expected, and if a complex formula is being used, it can be time consuming to find where the error is occurring. If you’re ever writing a long formula and it doesn’t give you the result that you are after, […]
When extracting data from a database, dates don’t always show up in the format you want them to. That’s why it’s helpful to know how to use the Text to Columns option to convert dates into a format that can be used to easily analyze or work with data. As an accountant, you may want […]
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