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Excel Tips

Here you will find common Excel tips and tutorials that can help you speed up your work and get stuff done faster.

How to Create a Dynamic Top 10 List in Excel

A stylized Excel sales leaderboard highlights a row moving up as revenue rankings update.

A dynamic top 10 list in Excel pulls the ten highest values out of your data and keeps itself current, so when a number changes, the ranking changes with it. …

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How to Trim Spaces with Excel VBA

A before-and-after graphic shows the extra gap in Emily Nguyen shrinking to one space.

If names or codes you imported into Excel won’t match, sort, or look up properly, stray spaces are usually to blame, and a short VBA macro can clean them out …

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How to Get a Cell Address with Excel VBA

A green highlighted spreadsheet cell with a callout showing its absolute VBA address, $E$5.

When you’re writing a macro, you often need to know where something is, not just what it holds. Maybe you want to tell the user which cell they’re on, log …

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How to Import the Current Workbook into Power Query

A Donations table flowing to Power Query within a single Excel workbook.

If your data is already sitting in the workbook you’re working in, you don’t need to connect to an outside file to get it into Power Query. You can point …

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How to Use SUMIFS With Arrays in Excel

Denver and Austin coffee-order criteria leading to separate SUMIFS totals of $4,370 and $5,180.

The SUMIFS function in Excel adds up values that meet every condition you give it. That’s AND logic, so the moment you want sales for Denver OR Austin, a plain …

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How to Append Queries in Excel Power Query

Maple Hall and River Stage query tables stacking their rows into one appended table.

If you have the same kind of data split across several tables, like one table per store or per month, appending them in Power Query stacks all those rows into …

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How to Organize Excel Tabs Under a Master Sheet

Excel Master sheet with clickable Jan, Feb, and Mar entries above a single row of worksheet tabs.

If your Excel workbook has grown to a dozen tabs, you’ve probably wished you could tuck some of them under one main tab, the way folders work on your computer. …

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How to Build an Amortization Schedule with Irregular Payments in Excel

Excel loan planner with payment markers spaced at irregular intervals on a timeline.

An amortization schedule in Excel shows how each loan payment splits between interest and principal, and how fast the balance drops. That’s simple when every payment is the same, but …

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How to Refresh Excel Queries Automatically

Clock and circular refresh arrows beside the Open Requests query table in Excel.

If you’ve built a Power Query in Excel, you’ve probably noticed that its loaded table doesn’t change when the source data does. It only updates when the query refreshes. By …

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How to Convert Text into a Formula in Excel

Excel converts the text expression 12*14 into the calculated result 168.

If your formulas show up as text like =C2*D2 instead of a result, you need a way to make Excel treat that text as a real formula and calculate it. …

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How to Calculate Percentiles with Criteria in Excel

Excel percentile illustration showing Cotton Standard drying times of 42, 48, and 54 minutes and their 75th percentile result of 51 minutes.

To calculate a percentile with criteria in Excel, pick the rows that meet your conditions and pass their numbers to PERCENTILE.INC. That gives you a cutoff for the group you …

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How to Calculate Distance Between Coordinates in Excel

Excel illustration comparing a curved GPS distance on a globe with a straight diagonal on a flat X/Y grid.

To calculate the distance between two points in Excel, check what your coordinates measure. X and Y positions on a flat grid measure distance from an origin. Latitude and longitude …

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