If you’re looking for the pound for pound, biggest bang for your buck, insert-trite-stereotyped-expression-here, Most Valuable Excel Function, a function that, when properly used, will dramatically increase your Excel mojo, impress your bosses, and make you look like an Excel pro, then let’s talk about Excel’s VLOOKUP function. Yes, it’s an old-timer as far as Excel functions […]

It’s no secret that I love Excel. I’ve said it before, I’ll say it now and I’m sure I’ll hum this tune again next week. Today I’m tackling a common problem that’s plagued office heroes for years. How do you merge multiple Excel worksheets into one master worksheet, automatically, and without macros or VBA? Down the line […]

It’s Christmas, and like many of you I find myself thinking about dynamic data validation using the structured tables that Microsoft introduced in Excel 2010. Welcome to my life. What’s Data Validation? When I say data validation I mean the ability to specify exactly what kind of data users may (or may not) enter into […]

I’m going to write a lot about ditching the mouse in favor of keyboard shortcuts, so consider this one of many to come. And while we’re at it, get used to me spamming this next sentence throughout my shortcut posts: Using keyboard commands over hunting and clicking with the mouse will save you time. Period. Next time you […]

I’ve recently posted two easy ways to compare two lists in Excel. One uses ISNA and MATCH and one IF and COUNTIF. I like both of these methods because they allow you to: Learn how to use and modify four powerful Excel functions Quickly apply AutoFilter to view just the missing values Easily manage and compare massive […]

As I previously discussed, Excel provides many useful ways to automatically compare two lists of data or information. In our other example we compared two lists of four digit account values; for this example we’ll compare two lists of names. You and a friend are throwing an epic party and have each maintained separate guest […]