Excel
Are VLOOKUPS passé? … Why do I get #N/As on my VLOOKUPS even when the lookup information is there?
Three Excel tools to ease your workload.
Q. I’ve inherited a workbook from a colleague who is no longer at the company. She was really good at Excel. The problem is, I can’t quite figure out what this file is connected to. Is there a “one-stop shop” for that in Excel?
Q. In a spreadsheet with a date column, some dates look fine, but others are left-justified for some reason. What might be causing this and how do I fix it?
You may know the annoyance of typing (c) and getting ©. Whether this happens in Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook, you can fix this in one place and have it work everywhere.
Sometimes Excel tries to help, but it’s not helpful. For example, if you have numbers stored as text strings (preceded by an ‘), Excel will try to warn you about that. If the warning is unnecessary because you intended this, you can easily turn off those annoying green triangles.
Q. My settings in Excel always give me $ signs for currency, but I often have to work in £ and €. Is there an easy one-click way to change the currency symbols?
One frustrating problem with pivot tables comes when you add a field to the Values layout area expecting a sum, and it gives you a count instead.
There is no one right way to paste Excel charts into PowerPoint. It depends upon who has access and what they may need to do.
Can you collect information in a single worksheet, and collect all sheets to summarize and analyze without creating two files? … Can a whole worksheet row change font color if I change just one cell?
Whether or not it should work this way, it does.
Studying books and help text is one way to learn formulas. Another: Ask the formula!
Copying and pasting doesn’t always produce the results we need and can take a lot of clicking and dragging.
