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Excel.Tips.Net: First and Last Names in a Page Header
By Allen Wyatt for Excel.Tips.Net David is administering an election for a professional society and the roster of eligible voters is a worksheet. There are approximately 1,200 eligible voters, so the...
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Excel.Tips.Net: Working with Imperial Linear Distances
By Allen Wyatt for Excel.Tips.Net Peter asked if it was possible in Excel to create a custom number format that will deal with imperial linear distances, such as inches, feet, miles, etc. The short...
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Excel.Tips.Net: Dynamic Headers and Footers
By Allen Wyatt for Excel.Tips.Net If you have a large worksheet, you may want to print it out in “parts” and automatically vary the information contained in the header or footer of each part. There is...
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Excel.Tips.Net: Deleting Every X Rows without a Macro
By Allen Wyatt for Excel.Tips.Net When working with data retrieved from another source—such as another user or from an external program—you may have a need to remove certain rows from the data. It is...
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Excel.Tips.Net: Getting Rid of the “Enable Macros” Notice
By Allen Wyatt for Excel.Tips.Net The VBA programming language included with Excel allows you to create very powerful macros. It is not uncommon to record a couple of macros for a workbook, each...
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Excel.Tips.Net: How to Print Excel Chart Across Multiple Pages
By Allen Wyatt for Excel.Tips.Net If you are using Excel to chart very large amounts of data, the charts you create can end up being very large, as well. This leads to a problem when printing the...
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Excel.Tips.Net: Filtering Columns for Unique Values
By Allen Wyatt for Excel.Tips.Net Filtering Microsoft Excel Columns for Unique Values It is not unusual to acquire or develop data tables that have duplicate values in a column. If you want to see...
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Excel.Tips.Net: Clearing and Deleting Cells
By Allen Wyatt for Excel.Tips.Net Clearing and Deleting Cells in Microsoft Excel As you are editing your Excel workbooks, one of the most common actions to take is to clear or delete cells. Clearing...
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Excel.Tips.Net: Checking for Duplicate Rows in Microsoft Excel
By Allen Wyatt for Excel.Tips.Net Checking for Duplicate Rows Based on a Range of Columns in Microsoft Excel Jennifer has a lot of data in a worksheet, and she considers some of the rows to be...
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Excel.Tips.Net: Sorting Data Containing Merged Cells
By Allen Wyatt for Excel.Tips.Net Excel has long included the ability to merge adjacent cells into a larger, single cell. This ability has been used by many worksheet designers to give their...
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Excel.Tips.Net: Adding Graphics to Excel Header or Footer
By Allen Wyatt for Excel.Tips.Net When you are designing the header and footer for a worksheet, Excel allows you to add various special elements to your header or footer. You can even insert a picture...
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Excel.Tips.Net: Copying Cells to Fill a Range
By Allen Wyatt for Excel.Tips.Net Copying Microsoft Excel Cells to Fill a Range Excel provides a pair of nifty shortcut keys that can be used to copy cells down and to the right. For instance, let’s...
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Excel.Tips.Net: Fix Cap Lock Mistakes
By Allen Wyatt for Excel.Tips.Net Correcting a Cap Lock Mistake in Microsoft Excel I can’t tell you the number of times that I’ve been feverishly typing away, without glancing up at my worksheet. I...
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Excel.Tips.Net: Understanding the VLOOKUP Function
By Allen Wyatt for Excel.Tips.Net Understanding the VLOOKUP Function Excel has a huge number of different worksheet functions—some of them used quite often, and others quite obscure. One of the more...
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Excel.Tips.Net: Rounding to the Nearest Quarter Hour
By Allen Wyatt for Excel.Tips.Net Rounding to the Nearest Quarter Hour Lisa is trying to set up a timesheet. It needs to go by the seven-minute rule. If it is 7 minutes till the hour it rounds to,...
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Excel.Tips.Net: Automatically Capitalizing Day Names
By Allen Wyatt for Excel.Tips.Net Automatically Capitalizing Day Names in Microsoft Excel One of the features built into Excel is the ability to automatically capitalize days of the week if you enter...
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Excel.Tips.Net: Dragging to Clear Cells
By Allen Wyatt for Excel.Tips.Net Dragging to Clear Cells in Microsoft Excel Want a really quick way to clear the cells in a range you’ve selected? If you’ve got a hold of the mouse, simply grab the...
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Excel.Tips.Net: Sorting Files
By Allen Wyatt for Excel.Tips.Net Sorting Files When you choose to open a workbook in Excel, you are presented with a fairly standard Open dialog box. This dialog box is the same as those used in many...
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Excel.Tips.Net: Importing Multiple Files to a Single Workbook
By Allen Wyatt for Excel.Tips.Net Importing Multiple Files to a Single Workbook Let’s say that you have a folder on your hard drive that contains thirty text files, and you want to import all of them...
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Excel.Tips.Net: Ages in Years and Months
By Allen Wyatt for Excel.Tips.Net Calculating Ages in Years and Months for Microsoft Excel Many times in early childhood education, a child’s age in Years.Months format is needed for reporting,...
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