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222 Excel Shortcuts For Windows And Mac

A Tour Of The File Tab

In this lesson, we’re going to take a tour of the File tab. The File tab is also sometimes referred to as “backstage”. Unlike the main stage where you do your work, the File tab is a place to go for tasks that don’t involve working on your data—for example, sharing files, printing, and changing Excel settings. Let’s take a look. The first thing to notice about the File tab is that, unlike other ribbon tabs, you aren’t able to see the worksheet when you’re on the File tab....

Convert Excel Time To Unix Time Excel Formula

In the example shown, the formula first subtracts the date value for January 1, 1970 from the date value in B5 to get the number of days between the dates, then multiplies the result by 85400 to convert to a Unix time stamp. The formula evaluates like this: How Excel tracks dates and time The Excel date system starts on January 1, 1900 and counts forward. The table below shows the numeric values associated with a few random dates: Notice the last date includes a time as well....

Count Cells Equal To Case Sensitive Excel Formula

Where data is the named range B5:B15. The result is a case-sensitive count for each code in column D. EXACT function The EXACT functions sole purpose is to compare text in a case-sensitive manner. EXACT takes two arguments: text1 and text2. If text1 and text2 match exactly (considering upper and lower case), EXACT returns TRUE. Otherwise, EXACT returns FALSE: Worksheet example In the example shown, we have four codes in column D and some duplicated codes in B5:B15, the named range data....

Count Cells That Begin With Excel Formula

where data is the named range B5:B16. COUNTIF returns 3, since there are three cells that begin with “apx”. Note that COUNTIF is not case-sensitive. See below for a case-sensitive formula. COUNTIF function The simplest way to solve this problem is with the COUNTIF function and a wildcard. COUNTIF supports three wildcards that can be used in the criteria argument: question mark (?), asterisk(), or tilde (~). A question mark (?...

Count Total Characters In A Cell Excel Formula

The result in C5 is 3; the total number of characters in cell B5. The LEN function simply counts all characters that appear in a cell. All characters are counted, including space characters, as you can see in cell C9. Numbers Numbers in Excel (including dates, times, currency, etc.) are often formatted with a number format. It’s important to understand that the characters that make up numbers are counted in their raw form (i....

Excel Dcounta Function

The database argument is a range of cells that includes field headers, field is the name or index of the field to count, and criteria is a range of cells with headers matching those in database. Using the example above, you can count records where the color is “red” and price is > 10 with these formulas: Caution: If the value in a field is empty it will not be counted, even when criteria match....

Excel Dollarfr Function

For example, to convert the price “1 and 1/16” to decimal notation for pricing given to the nearest 1/16, you can use the DOLLARFR function like this: Notice the first argument is a normal decimal value. The second argument is used to indicate the denominator of the fractional multiple to use for the conversion, i.e. 8 = 1/8, 16 = 1/16, 32 = 1/32, etc. In the example shown, the formula column E, copied down, is: On each row, the DOLLARDE function picks up the decimal value from column C and the fraction denominator from column D....

Excel Forecast Ets Function

To calculate predicted values, FORECAST.ETS uses something called triple exponential smoothing. This is an algorithm that applies overall smoothing, trend smoothing, and seasonal smoothing. Example In the example shown above, the formula in cell D13 is: where sales (C5:C12) and periods (B5:B12) are named ranges. With these inputs, the FORECAST.ETS function returns 618.29 in cell D13. As the formula is copied down the table, FORECAST.ETS returns predicted values in D13:D16, using values in column B for target date....

Excel Helper Column

You can use use VLOOKUP to perform a lookup with multiple criteria by adding a helper column to the data. In the example above, a helper column is used to concatenate first and last names, so that VLOOKUP can be used to find department using both names. Click for details on this formula. You can use a helper column with a formula that returns a value like TRUE for rows that meet specific conditions, then use go to special and delete only those rows....

Excel Locked Table Reference

One of the more complicated examples of this syntax occurs when locking column references. Although it may not look like it, a reference to a table column is relative and will change as a formula is copied. For example this formula entered in G5: will change to: when the formula is copied to H5. How can we look a column reference to stop it from changing? Unlike a standard absolute or mixed reference, you can’t use the $ sign to lock a table column reference....

Excel Ppmt Function

Notes Be consistent with inputs for rate. For example, for 5-year loan with 4.5% annual interest, enter the rate as 4.5%/12. By convention, the loan value (pv) is entered as a negative value. Dave Bruns Hi - I’m Dave Bruns, and I run Exceljet with my wife, Lisa. Our goal is to help you work faster in Excel. We create short videos, and clear examples of formulas, functions, pivot tables, conditional formatting, and charts....

Excel Round Function

ROUND takes two arguments, number and num_digits. Number is the number to be rounded, and num_digits is the place at which number should be rounded. When num_digits is greater than zero, the ROUND function rounds on the right side of the decimal point. When num_digits is less or equal to zero, the ROUND function rounds on the left side of the decimal point. Use zero (0) for num_digits to round to the nearest integer....