Excel-related articles.
If you think Excel’s worksheet and workbook protection will truly keep your files secure — think again. Both are surprisingly easy to bypass. That’s bad news if you’re relying on them for security, but good news if you’ve ever forgotten…
Lists in Excel often need to be reshaped depending on the task at hand. Sometimes you’ll have a flat list, where each value appears in its own row without any grouping or hierarchy. If a value occurs multiple times, it…
Five years ago (almost to the day), I published my first-ever blog post. It also happened to be on my birthday, funnily enough. What did I decide to write about? Well, what better place to start than the very thing that…
If you copy a set of hyperlinks with friendly text from a website and paste them into Excel, each URL is embedded as part of the cell’s metadata. This poses a challenge if you want to extract them, as there’s…
If you’re presenting an Excel formula for auditing, troubleshooting, or educational purposes, the FORMULATEXT function is very handy. It lets you display the formula from a cell (or range) as text, while updating automatically whenever there’s a change. Needless to…
I was only trying to give my rabbit a Hollywood smile using the Format Painter tool, but that blimmin’ Copilot button got in the way again! Thankfully, it is possible to switch it off without fully turning off Copilot. Go…
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