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Count Occurrences between Dates

By Jeff Lenning | October 8, 2024 |

Hello, Excel enthusiasts! Welcome back! Today, we’re diving into an interesting question I received recently: “How do I count occurrences between two dates in Excel?” As with most things in Excel, there are multiple ways to accomplish this task. In this post, I’ll focus on how to achieve our goal with a PivotTable. If you’re…

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How to Filter in Excel

By Jeff Lenning | May 2, 2023 |

Hello there! Are you looking to learn how to filter in Excel? You’ve come to the right place! Filtering is an incredibly useful feature in Excel that allows you to quickly and easily sort through large amounts of data to find exactly what you’re looking for. In this article, we’ll explore: Let’s get to it!…

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Hide Rows in Excel Based on Cell Value (Without VBA)

By Excel University | February 28, 2023 |

Being able to hide rows based on cell value in Excel is a handy skill for anyone who needs to organize a large spreadsheet. Imagine you have a huge list of data, but only some of the rows are relevant to you at the moment. When you hide rows based on cell value, you can…

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Four Ways to Select Every Other Row in Excel

By Excel University | January 3, 2023 |

Selecting every other row in Excel can be helpful. Aside from making it easy to get rid of duplicate rows, it can also be a great way to highlight important information, make the data easier to read with formatting, and more. However … if you’ve ever tried to select every other row in Excel, you…

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Sum by Color

By Jeff Lenning | January 13, 2016 |

If you need to compute the total for certain cells based on their font or fill color, you may have noticed that Excel formulas operate on stored values, not displayed values. That means that functions such as SUM and SUMIFS operate on the underlying cell values and disregard cell formatting, such as font or fill…

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Fill Down through Blank Rows

By Jeff Lenning | December 2, 2015 |

Are you familiar with the double-click shortcut to fill formulas down? If so, have you noticed it stops filling down at the first blank row? This post will discuss the double-click shortcut as well as a simple workaround for how to fill it down through a report range even when there are blank rows in…

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