Quick Access Toolbar in Excel: Everything You Need to Know

You probably know this situation: You just quickly want to use a function in Excel, but it takes you way too much time searching it within the menu bar. Admittedly, the ribbon structure of Excel can be quite confusing. But there is a solution: The Quick Access Toolbar. You can save the most important or… Continue reading Quick Access Toolbar in Excel: Everything You Need to Know

Increase Calculation Performance in Excel: Change the Region Settings!

In our large analysis of how to speed up Excel, we’ve found an interesting fact: Changing the region settings of your computer has a big impact on the performance on Excel calculation. Unfortunately, finding this left us with more question than answers. That’s why we further investigated: Which region formats let Excel calculate faster? What is… Continue reading Increase Calculation Performance in Excel: Change the Region Settings!

Performance of Excel: Study Shows How to Speed up Excel by 81%

There are various advice about how to speed up Excel. Also we’ve published an article about how to increase the performance of Excel (actually it’s our most read article). But we’ve asked ourselves: Which of these advice really help? Furthermore: How much time can you save with it? That’s why we measured how long Excel calculates under different… Continue reading Performance of Excel: Study Shows How to Speed up Excel by 81%

Force Cell to Text/Number Format in Excel: Easy Tricks!

You are changing the cell format, for example from “text” to “number” and nothing happens? Or the other way around, you want to enter a phone number but Excel automatically converts it to a number? Unfortunately, Excel is very unpredictable when it comes to text/number formatting. Here is what you should do in order to… Continue reading Force Cell to Text/Number Format in Excel: Easy Tricks!

INDIRECT: How to Use Text as a Cell Reference in Excel

You want to get data from different sheets but always on the same cell? INDIRECT returns the value of a cell which you specify by a string. For example, if you write =INDIRECT(“B2”) it’ll give you the value of B2. Instead of just B2, you can also refer to other sheets, for example =INDIRECT(“Sheet1!B2”) or even other workbooks.

Goal-Seek in Excel: Easily Achieve Your Desired Result!

You’ve done some calculations in Excel but you aren’t satisfied with the result? So you ask yourself, how you could achieve the desired result. A good starting point for such analysis is the built-in Goal Seek function in Excel. It’s simple to use but yet powerful. On the other side, it does some reverse calculation and therefore has a reputation for cheating in order to achieve the target results.