There are two ways to merge text strings into one Excel cell. You can use the Concatenate function or operator &. Let’s see how.
The task is to create Order Number consisting of the Store Sequence and the Customer No. Strings have to be separated by character –
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There are two ways how to insert drop down menu to the sheet. You can use either Data Validation – List or Form Control – Combo Box. Both have their advantages.
The following table represents a simple order form. The task is to create a drop-down menu for selecting the method of payment in the cell E3. Method can be VISA, MASTERCARD or AMERICAN EXPRESS.
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There is a problem with Pivot Table. When you add new row or column to source table, the pivot table won’t expand range. You must do it manually using menu “Change Data Source”. So this is the question, how can I do it automatically? Continue reading “Automatic change of data source in a pivot table” »
In Excel table may occur some error values like #DIV/0, #N/A … But it does not necessarily mean an error in a formula. It could mean that there is some unfilled value or some value is not in table and so on. In this cases is better display nothing or some specific word or number instead of error value. I have prepared table containing #DIV/0 values and two ways how to solve it. The first is using formula and the second is made by conditional formatting.
The bottom table have simple formula for calculating percentage of items revenue. For example in B9 is formula =B2/B$6. So, when cells in the top table is empty, result of formula is #DIV/0. Continue reading “How to hide error values” »
There are many values and formulas on the sheet. We want to protect all formulas against overwriting. Other cells must remain unlocked for entry. We don’t need to manually go through cell by cell.
This is a table with some formulas:
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There is problem with average for some specific values in a table. We need to make average of the items that meet several criteria. Following table represents data of some worldwide company. You can see branch offices in the cities and number of their new customers per each month and year.
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There is a problem with average for some specific value in a table. Following table represents data of some worldwide company. You can see branch offices in the cities and number of their new customers per each month.
How to do average for specific items (London, Prague and Paris)? Continue reading “Average with condition” »
In some cases it is useful to know the address of the first empty cell in a row. This is a way to do this without macros. Write the following formula and press CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER. Excel adds braces { } and saves it as array formula.
=ADDRESS(row number,COLUMN(INDEX(firstCell:lastCell,1,MATCH(TRUE,LEN(firstCell:lastCell)=0,0)))) Continue reading “Address of the first empty cell in a row” »
In some cases it is useful to know the address of the first empty cell in a column. This is a way to do this without macros. Write the following formula and press CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER. Excel adds braces { } and saves it as array formula.
=ADDRESS(ROW(INDEX(firstCell:lastCell, MATCH(TRUE,LEN(firstCell:lastCell)=0,0),1)),column number)
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There are some stuff dealers. In the following table is list of their sales. We need to know, how many sales they made from the beginning of the year. But there is a problem, we need to know sum to the date in each record for the dealer. For example: Jack Smith sold 1 piece on 2011/01/07 and then 3 pieces on 2011/01/19. So total to 2011/01/07 is 1, but total to 2011/01/19 is 4 (1+3).
Question is how to create running total for each dealer in the table. Continue reading “Running total for multiple items solved by array formula” »
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