SUBTOTAL Examples
Summing a column of numeric values is common practice. It is easy with an Excel Table as the option to add a Total Row is given in the Table Design contextual tab. Ticking this checkbox adds ‘Total’ to the leftmost…
How Do Excel File Types Perform?
It’s probably not something you give much thought about, but awareness of the different Excel file types is important, so you can avoid limitations and data loss. Before Excel 2007, the default file format was XLS (.xls); this was then…
Forcing a New Excel Instance
When a resource-intensive task is processing, such as a complex formula, macro or query, it can cause Excel to become unresponsive. This is particularly annoying if you have multiple workbooks open, as you are forced to wait because you cannot…
How to Use FILTER With Wildcards
Excel’s FILTER function filters a set of data based on defined criteria. However, it doesn’t allow for partial matches that use wildcards. What are the wildcard characters? One workaround is to use FILTER in conjunction with ISNUMBER and SEARCH in…
Custom Formatting
In the late nineties when I was still at primary school, I remember us having a weekly spelling test. There were 10 words the teacher would say aloud, and we would have 30 seconds to write each of them down….
Add Comments to Formulas Using the N Function
Do you wish you could write comments in formulas? Unfortunately, Excel doesn’t have an official way of including formula-based comments. I suspect this will change in the future, however, as we are writing increasingly more complex formulae. The workaround is…
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