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Jeff Lenning
Have you ever been baffled by Excel’s handling of numbers? Are you tired of grappling with non-cooperative imported data that insists on being treated as text rather than numbers? We can relate to that, and we’re here to walk through this process with you. Video Step-by-step Let’s unravel the mystery of converting text to numbers…
Whether you’re managing a budget for various departments or tracking volunteers throughout the year, using multiple worksheets in a workbook is very common. I was recently asked a question about how to get a change made in one sheet to flow to subsequent sheets, but not to previous sheets. In this post, I provide a…
I recently received a question: “Can I format a cell based on another cell value, and have the formatting update automatically whenever the cell value changes?” Then answer is “yes” and this blog post demonstrates the steps. To illustrate the steps, we’ll dynamically highlight the top three scores in a list … and as the…
Hello and welcome to our post on grouping rows in Excel. We will walk through the process of combining the values in multiple rows into a single cell (comma-separated list of values). The example we’ll use to demonstrate the steps is to combine multiple email addresses for each contact into a single cell. But, this…
One of the highly effective ways to boost navigation in your workbooks is by inserting hyperlinks. You can create links in your Excel workbooks that link to files of any type, including PDF files, Excel workbooks, Word documents, images, and even specific cells in a workbook. When you click on a link to a non-Excel…
My friend John Michaloudis does an annual survey of Excel MVPs and experts and asks for their best Excel tip. He compiles the tips into an audio podcast along with show notes and related links. This is a great resource and I love sharing it every year. This year, he rounded up tips from: You’ll…
We all love Excel, don’t we? But it’s just not that simple when it comes to creating a 4-4-5 Financial Calendar! Got questions about how it’s done? You’re not alone! Today, we will walk you through the creation of a 4-4-5 (4 weeks, 4 weeks, and 5 weeks) calendar in Excel. By the end of…
Hello and welcome to another informative blog post from Excel University. Today, we’re diving into a somewhat unusual topic – using Excel to launder money. If you aren’t familiar with that term, it simply means taking cash received from an illegal enterprise and running it through a legitimate business. That way, the money appears as…
In today’s post, we’ll be diving into an exciting topic that springs up occasionally among Excel users: “How can you combine worksheets from different workbooks while keeping all the sheets separate in the resulting combined workbook?” Sounds tricky, doesn’t it? But don’t worry! We’ll be navigating through this method together. We’ll go step by step…
Today, we’re diving into an exciting way to enhance your data organization skills using Excel. I was recently asked the following question: Is there a way to create a list of files so that the files in the list could be hyperlinked back to the source in the folder? I’m going to answer that question…