Summing Formulas

Excel SUM Formula Probably, the most widely used Excel formula, the SUM function
in Excel is specifically designed to add values from different ranges, or one range. The
SUM formula can be typed into a cell in Excel, or inserted via the Insert Function tool
to the left of your Formula bar.
Excel Autosum Function Because adding numbers is probably the most common
function that Excel is used for, Excel has a built-in Feature called AutoSum located on
the Standard toolbar.
Array Formulas in Excel I strongly suggest you read this very important information on
using array formulas in your spreadsheets. Array formulas can let you specify more then
one criteria to Sum, Average, Count etc by. Many examples of how to use them.
Excel Conditional Sum Wizard The Conditional Sum Wizard is an Add-In to Excel that
is used to summarize values in a list based on set criteria.
Sum With Multiple Criteria Examples of Excel formulas to sum a range of cells that
meet multiple criteria. ,DSUM, SUMPRODUCT and SUM with an IF function/formula.
Sum Every nth Cell
Sum nth Largest/Smallest
Sum Cells by Color
Increase/Decrease Values If you have values on an Excel Worksheet that you need to
permanently increase, or decrease you can use Paste Special. No Excel formulas needed!
Excel Subtotals In Excel we can use the Subtotals feature found under Data on the
Worksheet Menu Bar to Subtotal a table of data.
Bold Excel Subtotals Here is how we can use Conditional Formatting in Excel to
automatically bold the results of Subtotals.
Making the SUBTOTAL Function Dynamic How to use the one function (not feature
as above) to perform a chosen operation on only visible cells after using Auto Filter.
Excel Data Tables Data Tables are a range of cells that are used for testing and analyzing
outcomes on a large scale.

counting

Count With Multiple Criteria Examples of Excel formulas to count a range of cells that
meet multiple criteria. ,DCOUNT, DCOUNTA, and SUM with an IF function/formula.
Count Each Item Only Once Count repeats in range one-time only.
Count Words in a Cell Unlike Microsoft Word, Excel does not give us a ready made
way to find out the number of words in a cell, or a range of cells containing text, or
words. These Excel formulas show you how.
Count of Each Item in a List With the aid of Advanced Filter and the COUNTIF we can
get a count of each item that appears in a list.

LOOKUP & REFERENCE

VLOOKUP Perhaps one of Excels most commonly used Excel Formulas is the
VLOOKUP. It is also possibly the Excel formula that most people have problems
understanding.
Stop #N/A! In Vlookup
Excel HLOOKUP Another one of Excels most commonly needed Excel Formulas is the
HLOOKUP.
Left Lookup in Excel Excel is very rich in Lookup formulas, with perhaps the
VLOOKUP being the most popular. However, the draw-back with all Excel's Lookup
formulas is that they will only look in the left most column and return the result from the
corresponding cell to the right. There are times when users need to lookup data in any
column of table and return the corresponding cell to the left.
Dynamic Formulas Rather than bog you Spreadsheet down with hundreds, if not
thousands of formulas, use a single formula with flexible and changeable Arguments. In
this example I will use the INDEX/MATCH functions nested together. You can also
instruct the end formula to return the corresponding cell, to the match, on the left or right.
However, the the same principles can apply to most Excel formulas.
INDEX/MATCH Functions While the Vlookup Function is very useful, it cannot look
in any Column, only the 1st. Also, it cannot offset x columns to the left or return the
value x rows before or after the found value. An INDEX & MATCH combo will allow
for all of this flexibility.
Find Nth Occurrence in Excel As you may already know, we can use VLOOKUP, or
INDEX/MATCH to locate the first occurrence of a specified value in a list, or table of
data. However, Excel has no ready made formula that allows us to locate say the second,
or third occurrence etc of a specified value.
Excel Lookup Table VLookup is the perfect Excel formula for numerical values
contained in a range. However if you tried to use VLookup with text in a table, it's use
would be limited, For example surnames such as Smith, Smithson, Smithy, SmithsonJacobs would create problems.
Dynamic Excel Lookups These are very handy for when you lookup data but cannot be
sure which column your returned data should come from. In other words, users may have
inserted a column within the table.
Lookup & Return Corresponding Result While we can use any of the links above for
lookup formulas, all require a table of cells in a Worksheet. If you only have small
number of items to return based on the value of another cell, we can do the lookup
without leaving the cell!
Excel Hyperlinks How to get the most from hyperlinks. Hyperlinks that still work when
a Worksheet name changes. Create a hyperlink to a Chart Sheet
Hyperlink to Lookup Result Excel is quite rich in Lookup type formulas, some of the
more popular ones are VLOOKUP , INDEX/MATCH and HLOOKUP . These all do a
great job in looking up a value we specify and then return a corresponding result.
However, it's often the case that we need to go to the row containing the found value, or
its offset return.

Dynamic Reports Here you can see how we can the Database functions to produce
dynamic reporting from a table of data.
Multi-Table Lookup Use the Dependent Validation Lists method to tell Excel to
lookup any chosen item in any table you tell it.

IF Formula

Nested IF Formula Limitation One limitation of Excel is that we can only nest Excel
formulas up to 7 levels. This is particularly limiting when trying to add nested IF
Functions/Formulas that require greater than 7 conditions.
7 Nested IF Formula Limitation Workaround 2

ROUNDING & PERCENTAGES

Round Excel Numbers Methods and Excel Formulas for rounding numbers in Excel
Percentages in Excel A percent is a ratio of a number to 100 and is usually expressed
using the percent (%) symbol. In Excel, a number can be expressed in a few different
ways and used to calculate a percentage in Excel.

Excluding ZEROS

Average Excluding Zeros Excel has a built in formula/function that makes averaging a
range of cells easy. However, the Excel formula AVERAGE does not exclude zeros.
Minimum Excluding Zeros Excel has a built in formula/function that makes finding the
minimum value in a range of cells easy. However, the Excel formula MIN does not
exclude zeros.

tips and tricks

Efficient Excel Spreadsheet Design This page is a must read for anyone with the task of
designing and setting up an Excel spreadsheet. It talks about formatting, layout and
calculation speed.
Excel Tips and Tricks This page consists of many tips and tricks you can use in Excel,
from shortcut keys to working with formulas and functions. If you know of a good one,
please let us know!
Handy Hints For Spreadsheets Here you will find out how to use Excels Conditional
Formatting and Data Validation. It explains in detail how you can use these great Excel
features to work with duplications in your spreadsheets. Best of all it shows how they can
be used to prevent them!
Excel Formulas This page will take you to lots of examples of Excels Formulas. It
includes formulas for dates, times, text and numbers. Each page also includes some
formula tips and tricks.
Nifty Excel Formulas Download a Workbook full of nifty Excel formulas: For Last
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Charts

Excel Charts Here are many examples that can be used to create Excel charts with a
difference. The Excel charting pages listed here show many different charting techniques,
examples and solutions.
Excel Chart Tips and Tricks There are many little known tricks that can be used with
Excel charts and these are just some of them. If you want your chart to update
automatically, not plot zeros, or have scrolling charts etc, then you will find it here!
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commission/tax formulas

Calculate Sliding Scale Tax Calculating tax, or commission that is based on a sliding
scale, or by bracket, can be complicated. The Excel formula here is one that can be used
using Excel's built in function/formulas. That is, the IF function/formula and the SUM
function/formula.
Calculate Fixed Rate Tax The Excel formula VLookup can be used to look for numeric
values in lists and tables and to use those values in a calculation. A perfect example of
how VLookup can be used to glean information is to work out how much tax you are
required to pay.

PIVOT TABLES

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Pivot Table Grouping Problems

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Excel Charts Here are many examples that can be used to create Excel charts with a
difference. The Excel charting pages listed here show many different charting techniques,
examples and solutions.
Excel Date and Times This page is a must if you are wanting to work with dates and
times in an Excel spreadsheet. It explains how Excel stores dates and times, give the
magic numbers needed for dates and times and date and time conversions and functions.
Transpose Rows Into Columns Macro code here transpose every x rows into columns.
Copy Multiple Column & Row Records Into Single Row Records
Stop Screen Flicker in Excel If you record Excel macros, as apposed to writing them,
you will often wish to stop the screen flicker caused by your Excel macro selecting cells
and Worksheets.
Excel Variables A Variable is used to store temporary information that is used for
execution within the Procedure, Module or Workbook. Before we go into some detail of
Variables, there are a few important rules that you must know about.
Lifetime & Scope of Excel Variables In Excel, when coding in VBA, we can use what
are know as variables to store information. These variables (as the name suggests) can be
varied and changed to store different data information. As soon as a variable loses scope
it loses its stored value.
Debug VBA Code
Automatically Run Excel Macros Upon Opening Excel Excel has the ability to
automatically run/execute any Excel macro code of our choosing when opening an Excel
Workbook.
Automatically Run Excel Macros Upon Data Entry Excel has the ability to
automatically run/execute any Excel macro code of our choosing when data in any cell on
a Worksheet changes. We can do this via the Worksheet_Change event. We can even
specify which cell/cells must be changed before running our code.
Move ListBox Item Up/Down Add 2 CommandButtons to your UserForm that will
move your multi-column ListBox items up and down.
Transfer Multi-Select ListBox To Range Of Cells
Fill Range With Array Elements Use Array Elements to fill range, chosen by user,
complete with headings.

Mask Time Entries in Excel Unlike Access, Excel does not allow for us to mask time
and/or date entries. However, we can use the Worksheet_Change Event to achieve
masked time entries
Mask Date Entries in Excel
Select Case Statement One of the best methods for multiple conditions is the Select
Case Statement. It does away with the need for multiple If Statements which can make
Excel Macros very hard to read and decipher.
Conversion Type Functions These Excel VBA conversion functions can be use to
convert from one data type to another.
Calculate Sliding Scale Tax Custom Excel Function (Excel Macros) that can be used to
calculate tax based on a sliding scale, or bracket tax.
Excel VBA Loops are used in Excel VBA Macro code to tell Excel to repeat a block of
code until a condition is TRUE, FALSE, a specified number of times, or to loop through a
Collection or Array.
Send Email From Excel Excel VBA allows us to send emails from within Excel and
even send the Workbook as an attachment.
Determine Number of Printed Pages In Excel we can use Excel VBA code to
determine the number of pages that will be printed from the active sheet.
Loop Through UserForm Controls Excel VBA UserForms and their associated controls
are a great way to present/collect data from users. There are often occasions however
when we need to loop through all controls on a UserForm, or only certain specified
controls.
Working With Shapes Shapes are those from the Drawing toolbar or the Forms toolbar.
The code shows how to loop through them and access their Properties.
Sort Excel Sheets/Worksheets The Excel VBA macro code here can be used in any
Excel Workbook, or Excel add-in for sorting Excel Sheets.
Group Excel Sheets/Worksheets by Color In Excel 2000, Microsoft introduced the
ability to color the Sheet name tabs. The Excel VBA macro code here can be used in any
Excel Workbook that is at least Excel 2000, or higher.
Add Sheets Adding worksheets to Excel is very simple
Add Sheets in Numeric Order
Add Sheets in Weekday Order
Add Sheets in Month Order
Sort Arrays The Excel VBA macro code here can be used in any Excel Workbook. When
run, it will sort the 1 dimensional array of strings, MyArray
Protect/Lock Excel VBA Code When we write VBA code it is often desired to have the
VBA Macro code not visible to end-users. This is to protect your intellectual property
and/or stop users messing about with your code.
Password Protect Worksheet Viewing With the aid of some Excel VBA code placed the
private module of the Workbook Object (ThisWorkbook) we can password protect a

Worksheet from viewing to all those that do not know the password.
Excel Calendar for Valid Dates Easy to follow steps on how to create a user friendly
Excel Calendar using Excel VBA.
Create a Worksheet Calendar The Excel macro code here will create a calendar on a
new Worksheet. The current day will always be highlighted dynamically each day.
Deleting Rows in Excel Some examples on deleting rows in Excel that meet a criteria.
Most of these methods are far more efficient and quicker that the conventional ways of
using a loop in Excel VBA.
Delete Rows in Excel Based on Condition/Criteria One very common question is:
"how can I delete rows from my Excel Worksheet based on a specified criteria, or
condition?"
Delete Module via VBA Code The code here can be used to delete the module which
houses the code. In other words, it deletes itself after running once
Delete Workbook Event Code The code here can be used to delete all Event code within
ThisWorkbook
Delete Sheet Event Code With Code The macro here can be used to delete Sheet Code
based on the Sheet CodeNames supplied to the Select Case Statement within the Sheets
Collection Loop . It's ideal to use when you need to copy Sheets from a Workbook but do
not want the code to copy with the Sheets.
Decreasing Validation Lists If you need to have a list of options that decrease as users
select from it, you can Data Validation and some Excel VBA Code
Limit Scroll Area on an Excel Worksheet With the aid of Excel VBA and the
Worksheet Activate Event we can restrict the scrollable area on any Excel Worksheet.
Creating a Worksheet Index When working with Excel, many users end up with a lot of
different Worksheets which then makes navigation cumbersome. This page shows you
how to create a Index Sheet via Excel VBA.
Automatically Add Date Into Cell It is often asked how one can have a date, or date and
time, entered into a corresponding cell after data in entered into other cells. Let's suppose
you need the current date entered into Column "B", on the same row as Column "A" data
is entered. The date entered must be static so that means we cannot simply use the
TODAY(), or NOW() functions.
Excel Find Method The Excel Find Method is an excellent tool to use when writing
Excel VBA, or Excel macros.
Find Dates/Find Method The Find Method is an excellent method to use in Excel VBA
macro code. It is many hundreds of times faster than a VBA loop , which is often
erroroneously used to locate data. However, things become somewhat tricky when using
the Find Method to Find Dates. Even recorded Excel Macros can fall over.
Extract nth Word From Text in Excel With the aid of Excel VBA we can write a
custom formula/function, or user defined function to extract out the nth word from a text
string.
Create an Excel Table From List

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