Category: Excel

Open a blank spreadsheet. Open Excel, and click on “Blank Workbook.” Don’t forget to name your file, and save as you go. Look at it… so many possibilities! Start formatting your budget. There are two key components to your budget – your income and expenses. Add your income and automate with formulas. The first part […]

I would then recommend learning about the most common, essential tasks in Excel: Applying conditional formatting. Using freeze panes. Learning basic formulas and functions, sorting data, and filtering dat. How will learning Excel help you at work? Microsoft Excel Training, Benefits & Jobs. You may be more employable. If you learn how to use Microsoft […]

Excel is part of the Microsoft Office “suite” of programs which, while it isn’t that expensive to purchase, is still an unnecessary cost for many of today’s fledgling businesses. When you boil it down, Microsoft Excel is simply a spreadsheet program, for which there are many alternatives. Even better, many of those alternatives are free! […]

When you type a number with decimal value like 433255.424256 or a number like 1.0 into a cell in Excel, by default, the number will be auto rounded to 433255.4243 or 1. But in general, you need the exact data, so now I tell how to stop rounding numbers in Excel. Stop rounding numbers by […]

The biggest reason for slow Excel files are formulas that take too long to calculate. So the first tip you can use is to ‘press pause’ on any calculations! Did you know you can pause the automatic calculation of formulas in Microsoft Excel? This stops formulas being re calculated after every edit you make. Why […]

The Excel file will not open if, by any chance, this setting is enabled. Below are the steps to fix the DDE issue: Step 1: Open the Excel file from the Start menu. Step 2: Click on the File tab. Step 4: Under the Options dialogue box, select the ‘Advanced’ option on the left pane. […]

Microsoft Excel is the quintessential spreadsheet app. Introduced in 1987, Excel has been a mainstay of the Microsoft Office suite since 1995. It’s now available as both a desktop application for Windows and mac. OS, and as a web app as part of the Office365 subscription service. This is what my research found. Google Docs […]

Here are some solutions to fix the issue: Solution 1 – Disable Show Formulas. If only formula shows in Excel not result, check if you have accidentally or intentionally enabled ‘show formula’ feature of Excel. Another possible reason that only formula shows in Excel not result could be that the cell format is set to […]

In Excel, you can convert date to other date format in the Format Cells function. Select the dates you want to convert, right click to select Format Cells from context menu. In the Format Cells dialog, under Number tab, select Date from Category list, and then select one format you want to convert to from […]

A template is a special Excel file type that when opened through Excel, creates a normal sheet or a normal file based on the template file settings. If you open a template file directly from a folder it will open as a template file and allow you to edit it and save it. Excel comes […]