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5 Excel Features I'm Excited To Use in 2020
As I sit down to write this article, there are now only a few days remaining in the year 2019. Can you believe another decade has passed us by? Having personally entered the corporate world in...
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How To Use A VBA Macro You Found On The Internet
You Finally Found It!Yes, I’ve been there! You’ve spent days scouring the internet to find a solution to a really cool capability you had dreamt up in Excel. First problem: Your solution involves...
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List of the 50 States, Abbreviations, & Capitals
Why I Made This…I grew tired of searching for a well-formatted web-page where I could easily grab all 50 states and drop them into Excel (mostly to make drop-down lists). So I took matters into my own...
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Resolve Extremely Slow Pasting Into Excel Tables
Stop The Madness!One thing that has always annoyed me with Excel Tables, is how slow it can be to paste large amounts of data into them. This seemingly stems from an inefficiency with how an Excel...
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Custom Number Format: Round To Nearest Thousands
Are you looking for a way to visually round up or down your numerical values without changing the underlying cell value? While there are limitations, you can accomplish this by utilizing a Custom...
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How To Enable Office Scripts For Excel Online
Excel for the web (aka Excel Online) now has scripting functionality akin to VBA! We are in the early stages of this new scripting language, however, if you would like to get a head start in learning...
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Determining When An Excel Spreadsheet Is Protected
Detecting Sheet ProtectionI can’t count how many times I have been completely confused while working in somebody else’s spreadsheet only to discover my issue was being caused due to a spreadsheet...
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Generating A List of Unique Values from Excel Data
There are many scenarios you may come across while working in Excel where you only desire unique values in a list. You might want to rid your data of duplicates to create summaries, populate drop-down...
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VBA Code To Save As Picture in Excel
Not As Easy As You’d Think…One would think that saving something as a picture file (png, jpg, etc…) inside Excel with VBA would be a pretty straightforward exercise. Unfortunately, the “Save as...
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Override Values With Formula Using Power Query
It is highly likely while utilizing Excel’s Power Query to manipulate your data that you will run into instances where you would like to override values within an existing column based on some sort of...
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VBA Guide To Refresh Data Connections
With the release of integrated stock pricing in Microsoft Excel, it was unfortunate there wasn’t any sort of setting that allowed for automatic updating of the stock data while the file was open. Even...
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How To Pull Cryptocurrency Prices In Excel
Cryptocurrencies Now In Excel!When Excel received the capability to retrieve stock data directly within the spreadsheet via data types, cryptocurrencies were also included in the dataset. This article...
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All About Excel's New LET Function
Excel has released a new function in 2020 that will allow you to define variables within the scope of the formula. This functionality has the potential to bring clarity to what is going on within a...
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Dynamically Reference Excel Tables Inside A Vlookup Function
In this article, we are going to explore how to reference a specific Excel Table object from a drop-down list inside a VLOOKUP formula. I the below GIF, you can see the user is selecting a Revenue...
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How To Alternate Row Colors in Excel
Implementing Row Banding (Alternating Colors)While Excel does not have a dedicated row banding button to alternate row colors, there are a few creative ways we can obtain this effect. In this article...
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Calculating Picture Frame Spacing in Excel (Inches)
The Chore of Hanging PicturesOften times when I find myself needing to hang multiple picture frames next to each other, I turn to Excel to help me figure out the spacing needed. After doing this from...
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Adding A Blank Option in a Data Validation Drop Down List in Excel
Why Do You Need A Blank Value Choice?Sometimes you may come across instances where you want to include an option for your users to select a bank/empty value in a Data Validation drop-down list. This...
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The Amazing Hidden Icon/Symbol Font Inside Excel (Not Wingdings!)
Why Icon Fonts?Icon Fonts are fantastic in comparison to icon shapes because we can reference them in our formulas and cell values. This can be very handy from a UI perspective as we can migrate our...
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Clean Up Superscript & Subscript Text in Excel Data
Dealing With SuperScripts/SubscriptsSometimes you receive data or copy data that has superscripts or subscripts that you really don’t want to be included. This article will explore three actions that...
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New Years Resolution Goal Tracker
Why I Created This Goal TrackerEvery start to a new year my wife and I have a tradition of going out to eat (without the kids) and discussing our goals for the current year. Typically, I just make a...
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