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The COUNTIF function in Excel allows you to only count the number of cells that meet certain criterion. For example, the number of cells that the HR department appears in. With COUNTIF, you can do a wildcard search by using \* (asterisk). **COUNTIF with wildcard search and cell reference** The asterisk
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Excel has a powerful SORTING engine. SORT is the most popular function in Excel, and it can sort by many types of data, many attributes, and even custom sorting configurations. **Sort data in Excel - 7 tips** In this article and video, I walk you through **7 major SORT feature
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If you need to compare two lists or columns in Microsoft Excel, you can either use Conditional Formatting or you can you an empty column and use Countif function. You can even use both. This is handy when you want to compare 2016 customers to 2017 customers or a list
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Have you ever had a printed page of data, and needed to put the data in Excel? Typing the data is a real pain. Excel now allows you to put the data in Excel using **Data from Picture**. Data from Picture Data from Picture is a great feature and is
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Highlighting or shading every other row in Excel is a great way to make your data easier to read. I'll show three methods for applying color to alternate rows. **Share every other row in Excel** Method 1 is my least favorite, but I see users doing this a
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Excel's Unpivot Columns, part of Power Query, is an awesome feature. It is the easier way to fix data that isn't in a tabular format. **Power Query - Unpivot columns** You want data in a tabular format so it can be sorted, filtered, and PivotTables created.
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The TODAY function is one of my favorite Date & Time functions in Excel. It returns the current date and will automatically update. We will use the TODAY function with Conditional Formatting and create three rules on a date field. Excel Conditional Formatting with the Today Function The date field
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Accountants use Excel all the time. In this video, which is great for Accounting students, we look at the Accounts Receivable (AR) or Accounts Payable (AP) exercise. **Excel accounting exercise** Accounts Payable is what you, or your company, owe to vendors and suppliers. Accounts Receivable is what is owed to
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Recommended PivotTables in Excel is getting a great update. To use Recommended PivotTables, click the Insert Tab, and click Recommended PivotTables. The new update includes an easy method to change the data range. You also get a task pane on the right side of the screen and can add the
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If you want to calculate how many days are in each month for a year, it is easy to do with a PivotTable in Excel. I want to know how Sundays through Saturdays there are for each month of the year. **Excel PivotTable - Show days per month for the
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I recently spoke at the Administrative Professional Day Conference hosted by the University of Georgia. After reviewing my survey results in Microsoft Forms, I realized I needed to analyze the survey data. Forms results are immediately available in Excel. **Microsoft Forms - Analyze data in Excel** After opening in Excel,
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When you have a range of numbers in Excel and want to figure out the AVERAGE but you have some extreme values that can skew your averages, there is a function that helps solve that problem. **Average using Sum with Max, Min, and Count** You can calculate the AVERAGE in