MS Excel Tips

Very often, you will have to construct an excel SUMIFS formula with multiple criteria based on the same column values. Which is equivalent to the SUMIFS formula with multiple OR conditions. I guess you may have tried it…but find it difficult to achieve. Because the Excel SUMIFS formula does not have any such option. So let me explain how to achieve this using a few tricks. Excel SUMIFS with multiple criteria If you are reading this article then I’d assume you already know how to use SUMFIS in general, if not then here is my SUMIFS tutorial. ...

I went from being a bad excel user to a professional after learning these excel tips and tricks. The good news is I’m going to teach you these tips using simple and real-life examples. There has been so much written about the best excel tips and tricks on the internet, I could literally find 2,23,000 exact matches by the time of writing this article. So, I don’t want to write one more article with all the garbage. ...

“Oh My God” excel formulas not working in my report. Sounds familiar right? If so, don’t worry, you are just one among many excel users who face this problem very often. Just think about it. You have built an excel model for Sales Forecast using various logics with fairly complicated formulas. [‘IF’ formulas with 64 conditions – just kidding] And when you try to use that model, you see some of your formulas either not working or looks broken. ...

In this tutorial we will learn how to use VLOOKUP formula in Excel to get things done effectively. In case, If you don’t know what is VLOOKUP then no worries….you are in a right place. I’ll start with basics and then gradually walk you through all real-world use cases. Lets kickstart this Excel VLOOKUP tutorial and get most out of this. Why should you learn Vlookup? Trust me, Vlookup is not just a formula but it’s a kind of skill to crunch numbers or to speed up your data analysis process. ...

Excel Sparklines is an excellent feature but unfortunately, not many people know how to use it. In this detailed tutorial, I’ll walk you through how you can use Excel sparklines to analyze your data quickly and effectively. How to insert Sparklines in Excel Step 1 : In excel 2016 click on Insert –> go to ‘Sparklines’ section Step 2 : Clink on the type of chart that you want to insert ...

There is an MS excel alternative… …Its very nice, powerful, and moreover its free Just a few days back I had some issues with my office installation. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling but didn’t work. I was so frustrated so desperately started looking for an excel alternative (you can understand my frustration) Just started googling with a search phrase ‘best alternatives to MS Office‘, ‘list of free substitutes to excel’ etc… ...

Pivot tables are great for summarizing and analyzing data. I use it very often and I believe you too. But there is a small problem… …i.e. pivot tables do not show repeated column labels or content. Meaning – we need to fill blanks in pivot table to do v-lookup Ok..its difficult explain so here is an example. In my above example, the region “East” has appeared once and similarly other regions as well. ...

We want to generate $1m Revenue in 2018 said by CEO. Well, that’s ambitious goal… Considering our current year Revenue is at $0.7m but how do we achieve that..? let’s see if we can use Excel Goal Seek to put some foundations. By the way, we are into Chocolate business. I’ll walk you through step by step on building various models to achieve 1m revenue target by using Goal Seek in excel. ...

People who use Pivot Tables regularly knows this issue very well. ….i.e. manually refreshing pivot tables in your workbooks. It’s perfectly alright to use the manual method if you have one or two pivot tables in your reports. …but what if you have 5 to 10 pivot tables and then you will need to refresh all of them regularly..? Well.. that’s a boring job. So with that in mind, I have written this tutorial to help you build your own Pivot table refresh macro to automate the process. ...

If you haven’t used excel data validation drop down list in your reports then you are mostly missing something “really big”. The combination of well-structured drop down list and formulas like Indirect, Sumifs & Vlookup are the deadly combinations for Excel dashboards. So, in this step by step tutorial, I’m going to cover how to create drop down list in excel. We will also cover some of the advanced techniques to create data validation list multiple selections using Indirect formula. ...