How do you calculate age using a formula or function in Excel To calculate age in Excel is relatively easy if you know the proper function to use. In this quick example I am going to use the today() function to perform some simple date math. In the below example we have a column of […]
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Missing Row and Column Headings in Excel
Excel Tips and Helpful Info for Students
Excel Information and Tips Excel is an extremely powerful program. Most users do not take advantage of all of the capabilities Excel has to offer. Below, please find some links to some of the more helpful Excel Tips I have found. Please note I did not create the articles below. I am just linking to […]
How to remove spaces in cell data in Exc...
How to remove spaces in cell data in Excel This came up in the last Excel class. A student asked how to remove spaces in Excel cell data. For example a product number that was entered incorrectly. In the below simple example we are going to use the SUBSTITUTE() fucntion in Excel to substitute a space […]
Excel vLookup Example
Excel vLookup Example While teaching Excel classes over the past few semesters I get many questions on how to perform certain fuctions in Excel. Below is another request for and Excel vLookup example. This is for a student that needed this for real world work. My student had two lists of customers. The first was […]
Excel Date Calculations
How to use simple Excel Date Calculations Several students have asked about Excel Date Calculations. Here is a good quick example to calculate the difference between todays date ( “today()”) and a date entered in a cell. For a real world example, I use this to track the time I follow up on small projects. For […]
Free Online Excel Training
For my students in the Excel classes, here is some Free Online Excel Training. These training videos are from Microsoft and LinkedIn and walk you through many features of Microsoft Excel. The training videos are split up into topics such as Formulas, Functions, Tables, Charts and many others. If you are new to Excel 2016 […]
Where to get Office 365 for Personal Use
This post is primarily for my students who have subscribed but it also good for anyone that needs Office 365 Personal. I have posted below two options for buying Office 365 Personal The first is for a 5 user pack. This one would be good for a family with children. The second is a single […]
How to add increment time by minutes in ...
Adding Time Increments in Excel I have been teaching Excel classes for many years and this is the first time I have had a student ask me this question. “How do I add time in Excel?”. I did not have the answer off the top of my head so I put together this small cheat […]
Microsoft Excel Shortcut Keys
For my students in the Excel 2016 classes. Below is a good quick reference guide for using Excel Shortcut Keys. To download click the link below. For Microsoft Word Shortcut Keys For Microsoft PowerPoint Shortcut Keys Please consider ordering these books as well as they provide some great information.