We use Excel to save or accumulate information. Working with large Excel sheet, we may duplicate records or information and further, it becomes difficult for us to identify duplicates. Well, Excel provides a facility to highlight duplicates. Analyzing the highlighted duplicates, you can determine whether you have to keep that record or you have to delete it. In this section, we will discuss the … [Read more...]

Do want to track changes in excel? We often share our excel spreadsheet with other people to overview it or if required make some changes or updation to it. To know what changes have been made to your excel spreadsheet by others, you can turn on tracking. As soon as the tracking of an Excel sheet is turned on, it becomes the shared workbook to which multiple users can make changes and those … [Read more...]

In excel we don’t write text in sentences or paragraph. The main motive of using excel is to store data or information in tabular form so there is not much need for spell check in excel. Sometimes people even forget to check spellings in excel. The spell check in excel is not similar to spell check of MS Word. Excel never highlight the incorrect spelling by underlining it with the red wavy … [Read more...]

It easy to use a cell or the range of cells by a name instead of their references. In excel we can create named range which makes the working in excel easier. However, using the named range also saves our time and provide efficiency thereby avoiding mistakes which occur while typing the reference for the range of cells. In this section, we will discuss the steps to: Name a Single Cell … [Read more...]

Sometimes we share our excel sheet with others but we don’t want others to edit it. Or we want to prevent the sheet from getting edited mistakenly. Sometimes the Excel sheet may have formulas in some cells which when edited mistakenly may lead to the wrong result. Excel provides us with the facility to lock formulas or cells in the sheet. All the cells of an excel sheet 'by default' are … [Read more...]

A graph helps us to visualize the data in a better way as we are able to recognize the hike and fall down events very easily. This helps the viewer to analyse the data and take further crucial steps. Excel provides us with an easy way to create a graph and it also provides the tools to upgrade the graph. In this section, we will discuss the steps to create a graph in Excel. We will also explore … [Read more...]

In excel when you click on any cell it’s content are displayed on the formula bar. Sometimes, we want that formula applied to a cell must not be visible in the formula bar for the sake of protection. Excel allows us to hide the formula applied to any cell and you can even make that no one is allowed even to click on the cell. That means you can restrict the permission to access the cell. To hide … [Read more...]

Whenever we create any data in an excel sheet and we want to provide it with a title which must be centred over the entire range of the data, we have to merge cells of that particular section. The Merge & Centre option of Excel merges all the cells of the selected range and only the text in the upper left-most box is preserved and is placed at the centre of the merged cells. In this … [Read more...]

Concatenate is a text function which is used to concatenate multiple cells in excel. The Concatenate function does not provide the delimiter. Like, it does not provide spacing between the texts that you want to concatenate. The Syntax of the Concatenate function is given below: =CONCATENATE(text1, [text2],......) In the above syntax, text1 is the first item to consider while … [Read more...]