By Bob Umlas, Excel MVP After reading this blog you should be an expert in Excel’s Dates and Times. If you enter the number 1 in cell I1, for example, then look at the Home tab’s Number Format’s dropdown, you’ll see this (without the arrows!): Notice that the number 1, formatted as a short date
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By Bob Umlas, Excel MVP In this blog I’ll discuss filtering. In another continued blog, I’ll talk about advanced filtering. First, what is filtering? We’ll define it by looking at a very simple illustration. Suppose this is your worksheet: If you were only interested in the West region, you can show just the West items
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By Bob Umlas, Excel MVP For the final part of the Page Layout tab series, we’ll complete the discussion of what’s available on the tab and a few other items. The Header/Footer tab of the page setup dialog is where we left off. Let’s look at this again. Click the dialog launcher below the Print
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By Bob Umlas, Excel MVP Last time with the Page Layout tab, we left off with the “Breaks” icon. Next is the “Background” icon. This puts a graphic in the background of the sheet. This background does not print, it merely shows on the physical viewing of the sheet on your computer screen. When you
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By Bob Umlas, Excel MVP It seems not much has been written about Excel’s Page Layout tab so I’ll cover the items shown here (which do not include all the commands) up until the Breaks icon. In parts 2 of 3 and 3 of 3, I’ll cover the icons from Background to the end, as
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By Bob Umlas, Excel MVP Here we’ll be exploring the various ways to hide and unhide rows and columns in Excel. The bulk of the discussion will address columns, but it applies to rows as well (unless otherwise noted). How to Hide Columns You can change a column width by dragging the column separator (the
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By Bob Umlas, Excel MVP Have you heard of the Justify command? Let’s take a look at it here. Suppose you have the data below: and you’d like to make it look like this: You may not know that Excel has this ability already built-in! It’s called the Justify command, found on the right side
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By Bob Umlas, Excel MVP Using VLOOKUP in Excel seems to be a mystery to many. But you do it all the time in real life—you look up a word in a dictionary and scan a little to the right to read the definition. Well, it could be the same thing in Excel: If you wanted
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By Bob Umlas, Excel MVP Here in my first blog post, I’m going to show you how to separate first and last names in one cell using Excel. Imagine you have this worksheet, where the name is in column A: Your job is
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