Explore in-depth tutorials and strategies for data management, analysis, and visualisation using Microsoft Excel.
Here’s how to view two Excel 2010 workbooks at the same time, side by side, a very useful tip when you want to compare data without having to go back and forth! 1) Open both Excel workbooks 2) Select Window then select Compare Side by Side with (Spreadsheet 2) 3) When you have finished, […]
When you have an Excel Worksheet with masses of data, it’s not going to be easy to sift through it. So, in order to view sections of data, you can use the filter tool. Select the cells you want to filter (no need to select the column headers), then click the Home tab on the […]
If you want to make your Excel Worksheet appear a little less dull, or maybe you want to draw attention to a certain section of text, why not try rotating the text. And here’s how you can do it.. – Select the cell with the text in you would like to rotate. – Click the […]
On a recent Excel VBA Intermediate course everyone thought a macro for converting text to upper or proper case would be helpful. It’s a good one to put into your Personal Macro Workbook then assign to a button on your Quick Access Toolbar. Here’s how to do it: 1. Starting with a blank Workbook record a macro called ConvertCase in the Personal […]
Above is an example of a standard pivot table in Microsoft Excel 2010. It is set up with financial quaters as column headers and products as Row labels. I’m interested in seeing the results for the combined sales for the first half and the second half of the year. As you can see I have […]
If you have an Excel Worksheet that contains Data relating to the hours of training for each Employee for Microsoft Excel Training London on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, you may want to return the hours trained for a particular employee on a particular day in another Excel Workbook or Excel Worksheet. The spreadsheet shown below is the […]
If you want to add more than one row to an Excel Worksheet, drag select the number or rows you want added to the spreadsheet. Then right click on these selected rows, choose Insert from the menu, and the new rows will be added above the rows you first selected.
If you want to add a row to an Excel spreadsheet, these are the simple steps you should take: With your mouse, right click on the row header below where you want the new row to be added. Then, click Insert. Follow exactly the same steps if you want to add a column […]
If you don’t want part of the Excel worksheet to be visible or when you don’t want certain data to appear in print outs, then a simple solution is to temporarily hide columns and rows. Hide a single column: 1) Right click on the column header of the column you want to hide (this is […]
In the following example there is a column of stock codes. The numbers represent our Supplier and the letters after the hyphen (-) indicates our Item number. Suppose we need to extract the Supplier and Item codes and place in separate cells. If our Supplier codes were all equal length e.g. 3 numbers long, we […]
A new feature introduced in 2010 version of Excel is the Slicer tool. Used to visually and quickly filter data within a Pivot Table. Although the Pivot Table feature makes it extremely easy to manipulate the layout of data lists in Excel, we have found most attendees of our Excel 2010 training Courses are excited […]
One of the most asked questions during our Excel 2010 Training Courses in London has to be the subject of calculating times. One important issue is how time values are typed in Excel. This should always be as 9:00 AM or 10:30 PM. There must be a colon separating the hours:minutes and if you are […]
Ever closed an Excel workbook and clicked the “Don’t Save” option, then realised you should have saved it! Microsoft Excel 2010 now has a file recovery option for just such an occassion. This has proved invaluable in our Microsoft Excel Training Courses in London. Always check the AutoRecover time in the Excel options. To do […]
One of the great new features of Excel that users enjoy employing during our Microsoft Excel Courses here in London is the Sparklines. These can be thought of as mini-Charts that reside in a cell, and can show a trend visually of a group of values. In the example shown below there are sales figures from […]
If you have a lot of data in Excel and you want to find the highest or lowest number in a row, column or range of cells, Excel provides an easy way to produce this answer for you, without the need to sort your data. Lowest number: The Excel function to find the lowest number […]
Welcome to our tutorial blog for Excel Training – Microsoft Office Resource. Our trainers will post hints, tips and tutorials for getting the most out of Excel. If you need training (and are in the UK) we recommend our Excel Training London page. We offer Public Schedule courses in London, but can also train you […]