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 […]