Avoid Errors in Excel: 6 Strategies to Prevent Mistakes
In our last article, we have seen the 5 biggest fails in Excel. But instead of laughing about these mistake, we should rather talk about how to find and avoid errors. In this article, we’re taking a look at 6 methods of how to prevent errors in your spreadsheet.
INDEX and MATCH: The Alternative to VLOOKUP in Excel
You’ve probably heard of the VLOOKUP formula in Excel, haven’t you? The VLOOKUP formula searches for a value in a column. Once found it returns another value from the same row. A combination of INDEX and MATCH serves the same purpose. It works slightly different and has therefore some advantages and disadvantages towards VLOOKUP.
Break Links in Excel – All of Them (Even When Excel Doesn’t)
When you copy cells or worksheets from another Excel workbook, links to other worksheets in many cases still persists. Excel offers a function to break links but this function only works with links within formulas. There are many other types of links as links within conditional formatting rules or data validation rules. The bad news: Those links can’t be cut easily. The good news: there are still ways to break these links.
7 Simple Tricks to Make An Excel Workbook Look Professional
Creating Excel workbooks is often a long process: Setting up the structure, importing inputs, conducting the calculations and eventually tidying it up and sharing it. So once you are done organizing the contents, you have to make sure that the contents are delivered and received well. Therefore it’s crucial that the workbook shows a certain level of professionalism. In this article, we’ll explore 7 simple tricks for making your Excel workbook look professional.
When to use VLOOKUP, SUMIFS or INDEX/MATCH in Excel
One of the most often used functions when creating an Excel model is consolidating data from different sources. There are 3 major formulas for combining data from different tables or worksheets: VLOOKUP, SUMIFS and INDEX/MATCH. VLOOKUP and SUMIFS are rather popular whereas INDEX/MATCH is usually not that well known. So what is the difference between these 3 formulas and which one should you use? […]
How to Compare Two Lists in Excel
Let’s assume, we have the following (although realistic) challenge: We got two lists which should have the same items in Excel. But they aren’t exactly the same so that we need to compare them. But how do we find out the best way, which items are missing in either one of the lists? Instead of comparing manually, there are some easy steps. […]
Unhide All Hidden and Very Hidden Worksheets in Excel at Once
Unhiding hidden worksheets in Excel can be troublesome, especially if there are many hidden worksheets in your workbook. Usually, you would right click on any worksheet name on the bottom of the window and press “Unhide”. You can then choose one (and only one) worksheet at the same time for unhiding. After unhiding three worksheets like this, you will start feeling annoyed. After 10, you are going to hate Excel…
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How to Get the Name of an Excel Worksheet
Often, you need to display and work with the sheet name, for example if you are working with the ‘INDIRECT’-formula. If you don’t want to type the sheet name manually – which is very unstable – there are three ways to get a sheet name:
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