CTRL + shortcut keys are the easiest and most often used shortcuts. Here are CTRL+ 0 to 9 shortcut keys listed to keep you ahead of the competitions. DOWNLOAD for printing – Excel – CTRL_0_9_Shortcuts Pinup Reference CTRL Shortcut Action CTRL+0 Hide the selected columns CTRL+1 Open the Format Cells dialog CTRL+2 Apply or remove…
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DOWNLOADS 24 – CTRL+F1 to F12 – EXCEL SHORTCUT KEYS TO STAY AHEAD
CTRL + shortcut keys are the easiest and most often used shortcuts. Here are CTRL+ F1 to F12 shortcut keys listed to keep you ahead of the competitions. DOWNLOAD for printing – Excel – CTRL_F1_F12_Shortcuts Pinup Reference CTRL Shortcut Action CTRL+F1 Displays or hides the ribbon CTRL+F2 Displays the print preview area on the Print…
DOWNLOADS 23 – CTRL+A to Z – EXCEL SHORTCUT KEYS TO STAY AHEAD
CTRL + shortcut keys are the easiest and most often used shortcuts. Here are CTRL+ A to Z shortcut keys listed to keep you ahead of the competitions. DOWNLOAD for printing – Excel – CTRL_A_Z_Shortcuts Pinup Reference CTRL Shortcut Action CTRL+A Select the entire worksheet CTRL+B Apply or remove Bold formatting to font CTRL+C Copy…
Convert Month Name to Month Number in Power Query – Tips & Tricks 12
In Query M language, there is no function which converts Month Name to Month Number so that if I give February or Feb, the result should be 2. You can use following formula to get the Month Number from Month Name = Date.Month(Date.FromText("1"&[Month Name]) If your data is using some other locale than whatever is…
Excel Trim Formula in Power Query – Tips & Tricks 11
Excel's TRIM function has a unique way to handle trimming unlike other programming languages / applications. It not only trims the leading and trailing blanks (spaces) but also all blanks in between other than single blank between two words. Official Excel documentation for TRIM says – "Removes all spaces from text except for single spaces…
Binary to Decimal (BIN2DEC) using List.Accumulate – Power Query – Tips & Tricks 10
The tip is originally published @ http://excel-inside.pro/blog/2016/06/06/bin2dec-in-power-query-implementations-of-list-accumulate-part-1/ My formula is a slight modification of this. You can use following formula to convert from Binary Decimal where [Binary Number] is the column which holds the binary number. List.Accumulate(Text.ToList([Binary Number]), 0, (s,c)=> s*2 + Number.From(c))
Decimal to Binary (DEC2BIN) using List.Generate – Power Query – Tips & Tricks 9
Power Query doesn't give an equivalent function to DEC2BIN . Following formula can be used to convert a decimal number to binary Text.Combine(List.Reverse(List.Generate(()=>[x=[Decimal Number]], each [x]>0, each [x=Number.IntegerDivide([x],2)], each (Text.From(Number.Mod([x],2)))))) Where [Decimal Number] is the column which holds decimal number. Classic logic to convert decimal to binary is used. The logic is published at many…
Tips & Tricks 185 – Referring to a Row above in Structured Reference Table
You have a table below and want to refer to a cell above for Sales column (The business case is that you want to have difference in Sales for current month compared to previous month) Quick and easy way is to use OFFSET formula =OFFSET([@Sales],-1,) But in Row 2, it will bring the column heading…
Multi Column VLOOKUP Formula – Power Query – Tips & Tricks 8
In the previous post, we looked into VLOOKUP formula for exact match but where single column was involved – VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP Formula – Power Query – Tips & Tricks 7 In this, I am presenting formula which will work for any number of columns, hence it will work for 1 column, 2 columns and so on….
VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP Formula – Power Query – Tips & Tricks 7
Generally, a merge is performed and then various succeeding operations are performed to arrive at Exact Match for VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP. But all these steps can be replaced with a single formula in Power Query which is faster than merge operation. Read on….. Let's recap VLOOKUP formula for Exact Match. =VLOOKUP(A2,Sheet2!A:C,3,0) =XLOOKUP(A2,Sheet2!A:A,Sheet2!C:C) This will look for exact…