An Excel function to calculate your dog’s or cat’s age
(adsbygoogle=window.adsbygoogle||[]).push({});Dog years, explainedDo you think one person year equals seven dog years. I did, until doing some research. I wanted to add a “fun” conversion factor for a...
View ArticleHow to find the number of months between two dates in Excel
(adsbygoogle=window.adsbygoogle||[]).push({});Number of Months Between Two Dates?How many months are between two dates? The answer is “it depends” because your real question might be one of the...
View ArticleHow to determine whether a given year is a leap year
Identify a leap year in Excel: We all know what a leap year is. Every 4 years (almost) we get a February 29th. The ‘almost’ is the key thing. There are some conditions (none of which most of us will...
View ArticleHow you can add the 50 New Functions in Excel 2013 to your old copy of Excel
(adsbygoogle=window.adsbygoogle||[]).push({});Excel add-in to power up older versions of ExcelExcel 2013 has been released and it looks like there are about 50 new worksheet functions added. Now you...
View ArticleHow to get more out of Excel’s Auto Fill feature
Quick basicsExcel has a feature called Auto Fill that lets you start a series and then Excel can automatically fill in the rest of the cells by either repeating the series, or incrementing or...
View ArticleHow to reset or clear the last cell in Excel to make your worksheet smaller
If you find yourself needing to clear out a bunch of unwanted rows and/or columns in Excel you can do that pretty quickly with the following 2-phase approach.Phase 1, clear unwanted columnsHighlight...
View ArticleHow to locate the last cell of your worksheet
You might find that you’re worksheet prints a bunch of extra pages for no reason, or you wind up with an Out of Memory error message, or you may have an abnormally large file or other weirdness.This...
View ArticleHow to use Excel to test a list of URLs or links to see if any are broken
(adsbygoogle=window.adsbygoogle||[]).push({});Link checking in ExcelOut of the box, Excel doesn’t test links to see if they’re broken. It does have a HYPERLINK function to make some text you’ve...
View ArticleHow to quickly and easily detect duplicate values in an Excel list
Detect Duplicates in Excel ColumnDo you need to quickly detect duplicates in Excel columns? Excel makes it really easy with its conditional formatting feature. It takes just a few clicks using built-in...
View ArticleHow to use Excel’s conditional formatting feature to detect potential typos
Do you need to quickly identify values that are unique from a list within Excel? One reason for uniqueness of a value may be it’s misspelled or there has been an entry or typographic error on the data....
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