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Have you ever experienced your Excel charts disappearing when you hide the columns showing the data? By default, Microsoft® Excel® shows only visible data in a chart. In this tip, we will show you how to easily overcome this problem, by following these simple steps: 1. First, lets create a simple chart with your data […]
This Microsoft® Excel® tip will come in handy when you want to create a chart that will populate your data and highlight only specific parts of that data. Download the workbook to practise this exercise. In the example below, we will look at a grocery store. The chart displays the revenue generated from the produce […]
A step chart shows changes that occur over irregular intervals. For example, it can show stock movement changes, interest rates, etc. A step chart is the perfect alternative to a line chart as it displays the trend as well as the time taken between changes. The difference between a Step Chart and Line Chart: A line […]
Data visualisation is fast becoming the norm for effective business intelligence. Having visuals that tell the right story at a glance go a long way in achieving this. Microsoft® Excel® provides you with a multitude of ways to enhance the visuals that you create. In this tip, I’ll show you how to format a basic bar […]
These Microsoft® Excel® tips and tricks are the top performing tips of 2018, and have raked up a combined viewership of over 200 000. Without further ado, here they are, the Top 5 Excel tips and tricks of 2018. How to consolidate data in Excel using Data Consolidation (66,027 views) How to get a distinct […]
In a previous tip, we explained how you can easily remove duplicate rows from your data using the Remove Duplicates function. You can find it here. At times though, you may just want to highlight duplicate rows without actually deleting them. In this tip, we show you how you can do this using an Excel […]
Have you ever had the pleasure (or displeasure) of working with an extra large Excel workbook with many, many different sheets? This happens frequently, especially if you are working with a large amount of data that needs to be analyzed periodically. This may be due to multiple tables, lookups, references, charts, graphs etc. This has […]
In our example workbook, we’re working with Date, Value In and Value Out fields. We need to create a Pivot Table that will also display the variance per month, as well as a running total of the variance for the year. In this tip, we show you how to do this. First up; select your […]
This tip is useful when you want to replace or find text using Wildcards, e.g. if you have a column where you would like to replace everything after the space character with text. What are Wildcards? Wildcards are characters that are used to represent one or more characters. The following wildcard characters can be used […]
Sorting data in alphabetical order or numerical order is helpful when you have large amounts of data in the PivotTable you created. Sorting lets you organize the data so it is easier to find the items you want to analyze. 1. Within the PivotTable, click a field in the row or column you want to […]
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