Dynamic Data Validation with Tables in Excel

Dynamic Data Validation with Tables in Excel Welcome...this is an older post, you may be more interested in newer, more up to date techniques... For single dependent drop downs check out our video HERE For multi-row multi-level drop downs you can check out our blog post and video HERE     Check out [...]

3 Easy Steps to Manage your Data Fields

3 Easy Steps to Manage your Data Fields Want to control which data fields to keep in Power Query when removing other columns? When using the ‘Remove Other Columns’ transformation in Power Query (‘Get & Transform’ in Excel 2016+) the query editor hard-codes the remaining column names in the Advanced Editor. This is fine if your [...]

Excel’s 3 Best Kept Secrets

What are Excel's 3 Best Kept Secrets? Excel has seen great advancement in the last 10 years and every user who spends their days re-organising data can benefit hugely from Excel's 3 best kept secrets. 1. Power Query If you or members of your team use Excel a lot then you are missing out massively [...]

Dynamic Data Validation with Tables in Excel

Dynamic Data Validation with Tables in Excel   Check out our YouTube channel with weekly videos dedicated to Excel, Power Query and Power BI   Why is Excel returning an error message? Why doesn’t my formula work? What did I do wrong? The answer to these common questions may surprise you. Many spreadsheets [...]

58 Crazy Excel Stories (that are probably happening in your company right now)!

  58 Crazy Excel Stories (that are probably happening in your company right now)!Crazy things happen when you mix untrained users with Excel.It’s not really rocket science.  Crazy things would happen with any complex system if you don’t train people properly.But many companies simply assume that everyone knows Excel, so they don’t need much (if any) [...]

See Celsius in your cells (try saying that quickly 3 times!)

I recently was asked if there's a way of adding the Celsius symbol to a value in Excel. The answer is yes, and the method can be applied to all sorts of useful symbols / notation.  e.g. bullet points, m2, km/hr, bbl, currency symbols etc. This is how.... Pick a blank cell then go to [...]

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Stop merging cells!

Stop merging cells! One Microsoft Excel Insider has been quoted as saying that 53% of Excel Users merge cells. There is a standard tool on the toolbar called “Merge and Center”, it “merges” two or more cells into one and then centers the text horizontally within the merged cell. This can cause a number of [...]

Quick Tip: Beautiful Numbers in 10 Seconds

A report is more useful if it is formatted well Steps: Highlight the numbers you want to format Right Click - Format Cells Custom > then copy and paste (or type) the following into the Type box: #,##0_);[Red](#,##0);-??_)   Done If you want to format other numbers with the same format you can always right [...]

Feeling Bloated? How to fix inexplicably large spreadsheets

Sticking with the theme of the health of your spreadsheet, have you ever notice spreadsheet become inexplicably bigger? Suddenly becoming 20MB instead of 2MB. One cause is unused rows and columns. How do I check and how do I fix it? Simple, on each worksheet in your file press End then Home. Your cursor will [...]