TEXTSPLIT and 13 New Functions in Excel

In this blog post, we will have quick look on the 14 New Functions added to Excel on the 3rd week of March 2022. They are TEXTSPLIT, TEXTAFTER, TEXTBEFORE, VSTACK, HSTACK, TOROW, TOCOL, WRAPROWS, WRAPCOLS, TAKE, DROP, CHOOSEROWS, CHOOSECOLS, and EXPAND The first 3 of these new functions TEXTSPLIT, TEXTAFTER, TEXTBEFORE are designed for manipulating … Read more

Different methods to Display Formulas in Excel

This blog post is about 4 different methods to Display Formulas in Excel. Following is the screenshot of the data used to explain the different ways for displaying formulas. Show Formulas button To display all those formulas used in a worksheet, go to the Formulas tab in the Excel ribbon and click on Show Formulas … Read more

Different methods to Extract only Numbers from a Column

In this tutorial, I will show you 5 different ways to Extract only Numbers from a list of Strings. Following is a Table containing Text as well as Numeric Values and we will be using this data for explaining the different methods. FILTER Function to extract Numbers The ISNUMBER function in Excel can be used … Read more

Separate Positive and Negative numbers in Excel

Following are 3 different ways to segregate Positive and Negative values from list of numbers in Excel. MAX and MIN Function to separate Positive and Negative values The MAX function in Excel will return the largest among 2 or more numbers supplied into it. This property of MAX function is used below to check whether … Read more

Highlight cells according to current Time in Excel

This blog post is about combining the NOW function with the Conditional Formatting feature in Excel to highlight a cell or cells corresponding to Current Time. The following is a very common spreadsheet template used at working environments for recording manhours. Let’s see how to spot the cell corresponding to 10:23 A.M (Current Time) on … Read more

Find the Count of each Item in a List in Excel

In this blog post I will explain 3 different methods to find the Count of each Item in the list shown below. The methods include the use Pivot Table, Power Query and Formulas. Note that I have converted the list into an official Excel Table and named it as ABCD. Dynamic Array Formula to find … Read more

Find Common Values between two lists in Excel

This Excel tutorial is about 3 different methods to find the common values between two Lists or Tables in Excel. Here we have 2 lists of World’s Billionaires, one from the year 2015 and other one from 2020. Following are different methods to find the Names that are present in both lists. MATCH function to … Read more

Shuffle Records in Excel

Let’s see how to shuffle the records of a dataset using the RAND, LARGE, ROWS and VLOOKUP functions in Excel. Step 1: Insert a column on the left side of the dataset and generate an array of random numbers in it. The RAND Function in Excel can be used for this purpose. =RAND() Step 2: … Read more