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Excel Tips: The SUM Function
The SUM Function in Excel is useful for: quickly adding up numbers in a range of cells. It’s a basic yet powerful tool that can handle everything from simple additions to complex calculations involving multiple data types. For more on…
Decomposition Tree Visuals – Quick Guide!
Power BI has a wide range of visuals, both built-in and ones you can download. Many users stick to the tried and tested visuals in their Power BI dashboards, even when they are sub-optimal. Finding the right visual can make…
How To Use A Checkbox In Excel
Checkboxes are one of the clearest visual indicators of all time. You can insert multiple checkboxes, to make your spreadsheets more interactive. An Excel form control tick box is easier in some instances, to use than ActiveX controls. The reason…
Inserting A Check Mark (Tick ✓) Symbol in Excel
Have you ever prepared a checklist in Excel? Checklists give you the feeling of having accomplishing a task. Their utility comes from the check marks that you can put against different items within them. Note: A check mark is also…
The Ultimate Guide To Excel Drop Down Lists
What if the key to collaborating in Excel was a different way of making tables? We have all used tables in Excel, but what if you are looking to make this table into a list for others to use? You…
How & When To Create A Data Model [5 Simple Steps]
Excel data models are made to help users integrate data from multiple tables. It is of great use to professional Excel users as it saves tons of effort and time that otherwise goes into collating data manually. All that you…
Excel’s LAMBDA Function [Simple Breakdown]
The LAMBDA Function lets you create and modify your own formulas. Instead of creating complex sets of formulas with messy referencing, just master this one skill! We will guide you through the basics of the function, and show just how…
Creating Arrays – Excel Array Formulas
Array formulas are some of the most powerful functions in Excel. But we often find on our courses that they are some of the hardest to understand! That is one big reason why you’d often find Excel users resorting to…
How To Insert An Excel Chart In A Word Document
This tutorial will show you how to insert your Excel Chart straight into a Word Document. This guide will have you put the charts from your own Excel workbook straight into Microsoft Word. This guide uses the most current versions…
Calculate Age From Date of Birth – Quick & Simple!
Everyone knows asking up front, “How old are you?” isn’t a great starter! But if you have someone’s date of birth, working their age out in your head can get a bit tricky too. So why not use Excel to…
Ultimate Guide: Highlighting Duplicate Values Excel
In the working world, data is never perfect and needs cleaning up before you analyse it. If you’ve ever been handed a big data set for analysis, you’ll know they come full of duplicate values! This means it’s crucial to…
Compare Two Columns In Excel (Ultimate Guide!)
When dealing with Data analytics, comparing data populated in two or more columns is common practice. Manually comparing data could take hours or even days, depending on the amount of the data in question. But when it comes to using…