Basic Microsoft Excel tutorials

Excel Print Options - Set Print Area, Print Selection, Margins, and Printing Gridlines

Excel has many print options. We will look at setting the Print Area, Print Selection, working with Margins, Printing Gridlines, and Printing Row and Column headings. This is part of my Excel Essentials training course, available in July 2023!

Excel Page Break Preview and Inserting Page Breaks - Excel Essentials

Excel has three views in the status bar - Normal, Page Layout, and Page Break Preview. We will look at using Page Break Preview to move and lose page breaks and using the Insert Tab to Insert Page Breaks and Reset All Page Breaks. These commands are part of my Excel Essentials Course.

Excel - Copy and Move Data - Excel Essentials

Part of Excel Essentials is moving and copying data. There are multiple ways to move and copy, and I included a few tips in this video.

Excel - Getting Started with Autofill - MUST KNOW FEATURE

Using AutoFill in Excel is one of Excel's most used features. To be proficient in Excel, you need to master AutoFill. In this video, we will look at using Autofill with Series, Columns, Number Patterns, Dates, and Text.

Excel Essential Skills - Rows & Columns and the EVIL Merge and Center

Excel Essential Skills you should know include AutoFit, Absolute Reference, Inserting and Deleting Rows and Columns, and why not to use Merge and Center.

Excel - switch between relative, absolute, and mixed references

Excel has three cell references - Relative, Absolute, and Mixed. It is critical to understand when to use each reference in Excel.

CTRL + Shift + V to Paste Plain Text in Excel - New feature coming soon

Have you ever copied from a website and tried to paste it into Excel? It isn't a pretty picture. Excel has a new keyboard shortcut coming out soon. Using CTRL + SHIFT + V will paste plain text.

How to use XLOOKUP function in Excel

Quick introduction to the XLOOKUP function in Excel, with easy examples. XLOOKUP looks both left and right. XLOOKUP also allows column to be inserted to deleted. VLOOKUP will not look left and right and you can't insert and delete columns.

Excel file size out of control? Learn how to reduce Excel spreadsheet file size

Sometimes Excel spreadsheet file size can get out of control, for no reason, despite not having a lot of data. Find out what to do to reduce the size again.

Excel MONTH Function - extract the month from a date | Excel One-Minute Quick Reference

The MONTH function in Excel allows you to extract the month from the date. In this video, I show you how the month function works in Excel, the formula to use, reference the fields, formatting it so that you only see the month and nothing else.

Excel LARGE function | Find the second, third, n-th largest value | Excel One-Minute Quick Reference

The LARGE function in Excel returns the k-th largest value in a data set. For example, you can use LARGE to return the customer with the highest revenue, 2nd highest revenue, third-highest revenue, and so on.

How to use the SUM Function and AUTOSUM in Microsoft Excel | Tutorial for Absolute Beginners

The SUM function is the most popular and widely-used function in Microsoft Excel, along with its automated version: AutoSum. When you click AutoSum, Excel automatically enters a formula (that uses the SUM function) to sum the numbers.