Tag Archives: Excel

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How to Record and using a simple macro in Excel

Macros are scripts that you record; certain actions you may perform in a specific sequence. You might have to perform a set of actions in a particular order on a day to day basis. Instead of doing it manually, do it just once when recording the macro. Next time you want to perform those set of actions, simply run the macro.
In this tutorial, we will teach you how to record and use a simple macro in Excel.


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How to Edit a macro in Excel

Macros are scripts that you record; certain actions you may perform in a specific sequence. You might have to perform a set of actions in a particular order on a day to day basis. Instead of doing it manually, do it just once when recording the macro. Next time you want to perform those set of actions, simply run the macro.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to edit a macro in Excel. We will work with a macro we have already made. We will make some changes to it in order to guide you how to edit your macro for yourself.


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How to calculate ends of months and future or past dates in Excel

There are several functions in Excel with help you in various ways. These functions are not all related to calculations. Calculating end of month dates in Excel is done by using the edate fuction. This edate function calculates end of month dates in Excel from the specific month you input. For example if one needs to find out what will be the date five months from now, this function is used.
In this tutorial, we will teach you how to calculate end of months and future or past dates in Excel.


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How to calculate date differences by year, month, day, and determine the day of the week in Excel

In this tutorial, we will teach you how to calculate date difference by year, month or day in Excel. In this step by step guide, we will teach you two date functions. The first one calculates the time elapsed and the second one allows you to find a specific day of the week. Such functions are very useful when calculating date differences.


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How to Use times with currency calculations in Excel

In this tutorial, we will show you how to use time with currency calculations in Excel. There are several times when you have time and currency calculations. For example, we have the number of hours that a person has worked and the hourly wage rate. We have to calculate the total wage. Both the things have different units thus cannot be computed by doing simple multiplication. We will show you how to perform in such calculations.


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How to customize your display of Status Bar totals in Excel

In this tutorial, you will learn about the status bar in Excel and how it is useful to the user. This feature of Ms Office Excel allows you to view different totals like the average, sum, etc by simply selecting the cell whose values you want to figure out.
You can even customize the status bar so that it shows the mathematical values that you need rather than the ones present there by default.
To learn how to customize the status in Excel, follow the tutorial below.


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How to work with data using shortcuts in Excel

This tutorial will talk about and explain a few keyboard shortcuts in Excel that allow you to work more efficiently in this software.
Knowing different shortcuts in Excel gives you the opportunity to save time by working faster and more accurately while using this program.
To learn more about these shortcuts, follow the tutorial given below.


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How to select the current region and moving around region corners in Excel

To select in Excel is fairly easy and not at all time consuming if you know your shortcuts. Data in Excel sometimes constitutes of sheets that are large and cannot be viewed in the first glance. However, as mentioned you can select your current region, complete data and move around the region corners in Microsoft Excel by pressing a few keys on the keyboard.
To understand how to do this, follow the tutorial given below.


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How to Create a worksheet and copy paste in Excel

Microsoft Office Excel is a spreadsheet application which is used for commercial purposes. Through Excel you can do calculations, use graphs, insert pivot tables etc. One should know how to work in Excel because it makes your life easy when it comes to handling data.
Follow this step by step tutorial to learn how to create a worksheet in Excel along with learning how to copy paste in it.


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How to Target large data groups in Excel

Once you enter the data in Excel you should know how to work with it quickly and efficiently. While learning how to use Microsoft Excel you’ll realize that targeting large groups of data can be tricky and if you do not know the right steps then it becomes really hard to find your data and make changes to it. The numbers of cells that Excel has in one sheet are so many that even scrolling all the way down may become hectic so one should know the right shortcut keys.
Follow this step by step tutorial to learn how to target large data in Excel and make changes to it easily.


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