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No Pain No Gain
Learning is a process, in which I believe the easier we take, the less we get. I am glad that I’ve learnt Excel starting with Excel 2000. Yes it is more than a decade ago. Throughout the decade, I have … Continue reading
Convert PDF to Excel without PDF converter
Does it sound familiar? There are many online-converters. I tried a few of them (freebies) but the result was not satisfactory sometimes. I don’t blame them as I had managed my expectation. 😛 Without PDF converter, what I tried to do … Continue reading
HLOOKUP – The less-know sibling of VLOOKUP
Many people talk about VLOOKUP and agree that it is one of the most useful functions in their work life with Excel. However, if you ask them about HLOOKUP, maybe 30% of them have no idea of its existence. The Google search … Continue reading
SUM Time in the end of text strings
Did you encounter a task like this? I did. Actually it is not as difficult as you may expect. It could be done in just a minute IF the data is not too bad, like the one shown above. I … Continue reading
Posted in Excel Tips, Formula
Tagged Array formula, Find and Replace, RIGHT, Sample File, SUBSTITUTE, SUMPRODUCT, Time, wildcard
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Ctrl+A can be more convenient than you think of…
If you think Ctrl+A does merely Select All, then you are likely not using it frequently. Let’s me take you through how to boost your efficiency working with Excel with Ctrl+A under different situations.
=SUM(‘???’!C3) Is it a valid formula?? No. It is magical indeed!
This is about using wildcards in referencing cells on other worksheets. If you know the basic rule about naming a worksheet, you should know that we cannot use ? or * in any part of a worksheet’s name. So there … Continue reading
Excel 2016 is coming! Is your company ready for this?
If you Google “Excel 2016 preview”, you will find many previews and comments for Excel 2016 on the Internet. I have not tried Excel 2016. Indeed, I have not yet tried Excel 2013 either, although I keep an eye on … Continue reading
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How unorganized data could drive you crazy!
This is about how to clean up data for a simple VLOOKUP task. To be more specific, how to separate data delimited by line break in a cell, as you see in the following screen shot. The one who input … Continue reading
Interesting Magnifier in Windows 7
This is not an Excel tip… One day I intended to press Alt+= (which is the shortcut for Auto Sum), but I wrongly press Windows+=, and something interesting pop up… Instead of an auto sum formula I expected, I saw a … Continue reading
Hidden Rows vs. Filtered Rows
One day, a friend asked me: “If she deletes contents from a filtered range, would she also delete the hidden content?” I answered: “Try and observe!” 😛 I know that is not the answer she expected. Nevertheless, I believe that … Continue reading
When you forget to hold Ctrl key for inputting same value to a range…
… Ctrl+D or Ctrl+R is ready to help 🙂 Ctrl+Enter is one of my favorite shortcuts. It helps me to input a value or a formula to a range simultaneously. As usual, Ctrl+Enter won’t let me down. But many times, … Continue reading
Date Filter is good, but still with limitation
This is about how to filter a particular date, say 1st of January regardless year, from a list of dates. As a matter of fact, not many people are aware of the Date Filter feature in Excel. This is true at … Continue reading
Where are Filter drop-down buttons?
Have you ever encountered a filtered range without Filter drop-down buttons available on the top? No idea what I am talking about? Take a look at the following screenshot. Without the Filter buttons on the top, I tried to show hidden … Continue reading
Interesting bug – Filter with SUBTOTAL
In the process of writing my previous post, I found something wrong with Filter… when Column A contains formula starts with SUBTOTAL, Auto Filter refuses to take the last row.
Sequential number for visible rows only
How to display a column of sequential number to visible rows only? Got this question from a friend. Her task is simple as shown below: I guess many people wanted to achieve the same thing but have no idea at all. Are … Continue reading
Copy data from strictly-protected sheet
How to copy data from a range where you cannot select, due to worksheet protection? Here’s the situation: You receive a worksheet with data but not insight. Well, it happens and you get use to it already. You plan to … Continue reading
Do you know Menu Key??
This key is sitting on the keyboard forever. I wonder how many people have ever pressed it? Maybe you don’t even know where the key is on keyboard… do you? It is between “Windows” and “Ctrl”, just two keys below … Continue reading
Sum a range of number end with “k”
Does it sound familiar to you? If you are having this kind of issue all the time, you may want to continue reading this as I am going to show you three different approaches to fix the problem. Non-Formula approach Formula … Continue reading
100th Post
Time really flies. This is the 100th post on wmfexcel. I would like to take this opportunity to thank you very much for visiting my blog. Personally I have learnt a lot in the process. I hope you learn something … Continue reading
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