Category Archives: Excel

Protecting Worksheets in Excel

Protecting worksheets in Excel allows you to stop anything being changed on a worksheet or specifying that particular cells can be changed whilst others cannot. This is very useful if you want to make sure that certain cells are not … Continue reading

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How to Use Excel PivotTables

Excel is full of great tools for doing data analysis, in fact it is sometimes useful to import data from another application or database and analyse it in Excel. One of these great tools is the PivotTable. It is quick … Continue reading

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Importing and Exporting Data in Excel

Excel does many useful things and entering data so that you can do calculations or manipulate data. However, sometimes you need to bring that data in from somewhere else or you need to export it to be used in another … Continue reading

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Excel: Using Data Tables

Analyzing data in Excel is one of its great features and there are a number of tools for doing this, aside from sometimes just changing a value and seeing what happens. If you have done this then there is an … Continue reading

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Microsoft Access: How to Use the Delete Query

As the names suggests this type of action query is going to delete data so if you are doing this for the first time try this on some data you are not worried about losing or on a copy of … Continue reading

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Excel Using Text Functions

Excel is great for dealing with numbers but it also has functions for dealing with text. You can check in a bit of the text by extracting it using one of the functions like LEFT, RIGHT and MID.  You can … Continue reading

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Excel How to Use Subtotals

Excel is packed with lots of great tools. One of my favourites is the Subtotals. Here you can take a list, sort it into order so that appropriate items are grouped together, then click a button and it will determine … Continue reading

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Combining VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP Functions

HLOOKUP and VLOOKUP functions are very useful functions on their own but if you combine them together you can do even more. If you are using VLOOKUP rather than having the two columns one with the value to lookup and … Continue reading

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Excel Database Functions

So this week I’ve had a bit of inspiration creating some Excel tutorials but don’t worry I’ve also started others including the photography and video podcasts which will be with you in January 2014. But here is one Excel one … Continue reading

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Remove Duplicates in Excel

I’m often asked how to remove duplicate entries in an Excel list or database, they are the same thing but Microsoft have more recently called them lists. Thankfully it is easy to do, particularly on more recent versions of Excel. … Continue reading

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