Because tables support structured references, you can learn a lot about a table with basic formulas. On this sheet, Table1 contains employee data. Let’s run through some examples. To start off, you can use the ROWS function to count table rows. This is the count of data rows only. You can see we have 19 people in the list. You can use the COLUMNS function to count columns. To get a total count of table cells, you can use a formula with both functions....
In the example shown, the formula in cell B5 is: In the example shown, months is supplied as -2, which causes EOMONTH to return 4/30/2015. Then, 1 day is added to get 5/1/2015. 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....
Note: this is a pretty sloppy formula, but will work in many situations because TRIM cleans up extra spaces, including the case where there is no middle name. It won’t work if the names contain titles or suffixes that occur before the first name or after the last name. At the core, the MID function extracts text from the full name starting at 1 character after the length of the first name....
By default, the WEEKNUM function uses a scheme where week 1 begins on January 1, and week 2 begins on the next Sunday (when the return_type argument is omitted, or supplied as 1). With a return_type of 2, week 1 begins on January 1, and week 2 begins on the next Monday. See the WEEKNUM page for more information. ISO week number ISO week numbers, start on the Monday of the first week in a year with a Thursday....
which returns a count of workdays excluding the holidays in B10:B11. For example, in the screenshot shown, the formula in D6 is: This formula returns 5 since there are 5 working days between December 23 and December 27, and no holidays have been provided. Note that NETWORKDAYS includes both the start and end dates in the calculation if they are workdays. NETWORKDAYS can also exclude a custom list of holidays....
Let’s take a look. Here we have a list of movie titles that were copied in from some other system. You can see that there’s a problem with extra space characters. Not only are there extra spaces between words, there are also extra spaces at the beginning and end of some of the titles. Excel contains a special text function called TRIM that is designed to fix this problem. TRIM takes one argument: the text you want to process....
Here we have two lists. Both lists contain the same number of items, but each list is slightly different. We can use conditional formatting with a formula to quickly find and highlight the differences. First, I’m going to name each list. The first list I’ll call list1, and the second list I’ll call list2. It’s not necessary to name the lists, but it will make our formulas easier to read and undertand....
Let’s take a look. The most basic way to move content in Excel is to select one or more cells, then click the “cut” button on the ribbon, move to another location, and click the “paste” button on the ribbon. When you cut content, notice that Excel doesn’t immediately remove the content. Instead, the cut data is highlighted by a moving dashed line—sometimes called “marching ants.” This indicates that the cut information is on the clipboard and ready to move to a new location....
Let’s look at how you can use the VLOOKUP function instead. Here we have the classic problem of assigning grades to scores. Each student in the list has a set of test scores that are averaged in column G. In column H, a formula uses a series of four IF statements to determine a grade based on the average. The formula starts with low scores and works up to high scores by using the “less than” operator....
Once you have an Excel Table, it’s very easy to sort the columns. First, let’s do a quick tour of where you can find sorting controls in Excel: • On the home tab of the ribbon, you’ll find sorting options at the far right • On the Data tab, you’ll find also find 3 buttons for sorting • You can also right-click in a column and find a sort menu • Finally, when you click a filter button in a table, you’ll see sorting commands at the top....
In this first worksheet, we have a simple table that shows test scores for 5 sections. The total questions in each section are in column C, and the total questions that were correct are in column D. Column E contains a formula that calculates the percentage score in each section by dividing the correct answers by the total number of questions in the section. Notice we get a Divide by Zero error in column E for the last 2 sections....
Once you have a slicer on a table, you can use styles to quickly change how a slicer looks. You’ll find slicer styles on the Slicer Tools ribbon, which appears whenever a slicer is selected. Just click a thumbnail image to apply a style. Notice each style has a name that appears when you hover with the cursor for a few seconds. The currently applied style is highlighted with a thick border....
In the example shown, the formula in C5 is: Working from the inside out, the logical test inside the IF function is based on the COUNTIF function: Here, COUNTIF counts cells that match the pattern “??-????-???”, but since the range is just one cell, the answer is always 1 or zero. The question mark wildcard (?) means “one character”, so COUNTIF returns the number 1 when the text consists of 11 characters with two hyphens, as described by the pattern....
where “inc” (G4) and “rates” (B5:D11) are named ranges, and column D is a helper column that calculates total accumulated tax at each bracket. Background and context The US Tax system is “progressive”, which means people with higher taxable income pay a higher federal tax rate. Rates are assessed in brackets defined by an upper and lower threshold. The amount of income that falls into a given bracket is taxed at the corresponding rate for that bracket....
In the example shown, the formula in F8 is: This is an array formula and must be entered with control + shift + enter. Working from the inside out, we generate the array of matching holidays using a nested IF: If the dates in B4:B12 are greater than or equal the start date in F5, and if the dates in B4:B12 are less than or equal the end date in F6, then IF returns a an array of holidays....
where “data” is the named range B5"B12. Note: this is an array formula and must be entered with control + shift + enter, except in Excel 365. Once the test is run, it returns an array or TRUE and FALSE values: With the lookup_value set to FALSE, and match_type set to zero to force and exact match, the MATCH function returns 4, the position of the first FALSE in the array....
Fields The pivot table uses all two of the three fields in the source data: Date, and Sales. Because Date is grouped by Years and Months, it appears twice in the list, once as “Date” (month grouping), once as “Years”: The Date field has been been grouped by Months and Years: The resulting “Years” field has been added as a Column field. The Original “Date” field is configured as a Row field, which breaks down sales by month....
In the example shown, the formula in G7 is: To pull a random value out of a list or table, we’ll need a random row number. For that, we’ll use the RANDBETWEEN function, which generates a random integer between two given values - an upper value and lower value. For the lower value, we use the number 1, and for the upper value we use the ROWS function to get count the total rows in the table or list: RANDBETWEEN will return a random number between 1 and the count of rows in the data, and this result is fed into the INDEX function for the rows argument....
First, to create a new workbook in Excel, you can use Control + N on Windows and Command + N on a Mac. To access the Excel help system, use F1 on Windows, Command + / on a Mac. To open an existing workbook, you can use the File Open shortcut: Control + O in Windows, Command + O on the Mac. At any point while you’re working on a file in Excel, you can save using the shortcut Control + S on Windows, Command + S on the Mac....
And the formula in D5 is: As these formulas are copied down, they return the results seen in columns C and D. Note: If you are using an older version of Excel that does not offer the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions, the solution is a bit more complicated, and the standard approach is to use formulas that combine the LEFT, RIGHT, LEN, and FIND functions. See below for details....
