Earlier I was able to hold the bottom right corner of a call and was able to drag and drop it. Now, I am, no longer, able to do it. To solve this – 1. Go to Office Button > Excel Options > Advanced 2. Click Enable fill handle and cell drag-and-drop to mark it…
Tips & Tricks 37 – How Many Characters a String is Containing not considering Blanks?
Say, you have a string like Vijay A. Verma and I need to know how many characters it has. In this case, it has 12 including decimal and leaving blanks aside. Use below formula for the same – =LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1," ",""))
Tips & Tricks 36 – Highlight Unique / Duplicate Rows
If you want to highlight Unique / Duplicate Rows, follow following steps 1. Select the data range where you want to apply this formatting. 2. Home Tab > Conditional Formatting > New Rule 3. Select Format only unique or duplicate values. In Format all: box, you can select duplicate / unique. 4. Format appropriately and…
Tips & Tricks 35 – Highlight Cells which are different from first Column Cells in a Range (And for Row Cells also)
Let's say you are having data as given below and you want to highlight all the cells in columns after first column where cell values are different. Confused??? B1 is not different from A1 where C1 is different from A1, hence C1 will be highlighted. In row 2 both B2 and C2 will highlighted and…
Tips & Tricks 34 – Get Sheet Name through Formula
Before getting this, make sure that you file has been saved at least once as this formula is dependent upon the file path name which can be pulled out by CELL function only if file has been saved at least once. Use following formula – =REPLACE(CELL("filename",A1),1,FIND("]",CELL("filename",A1)),"") Make sure that A1 is used in the formula….
Tips & Tricks 33 – Generate Week WORK Day Names Mon to Fri or Monday to Friday
1. Put "Mon" without quotes in a Cell. Let's assume this is in cell A1 here. If you want to generate full names of the day, put "Monday" without quotes. Note – The start day can be any WORK day. "Mon" is chosen for illustration purpose only. The start day will be whatever is put…
Tips & Tricks 32 – Generate Week Day Names Sun to Sat or Sunday to Saturday
1. Put "Sun" without quotes in a Cell. Let's assume this is in cell A1 here. If you want to generate full names of the day, put "Sunday" without quotes. Note – The start day can be any day. "Sun" is chosen for illustration purpose only. The start day will be whatever is put in…
Tips & Tricks 31 – Generate Month Names Jan to Dec in Text or January to December
1. Put "Jan" without quotes in a Cell. Let's assume this is in cell A1 here. If you want to generate full names of the month, put "January" without quotes. Note – Start month can be any other month also. "Jan" has been chosen for illustration purpose only. The output will be starting with the…
Article 3 – Show Date for a Coming Day (e.g. Coming Saturday)
There are many circumstances in life where we want to determine the coming day. We are always eager to wait for Saturday. Hence, we want to show the coming Saturday date. We want to go to a blockbuster movie on Wednesday, hence we want coming Wednesday date. All these are fairly easy by Windows Date…
Tips & Tricks 30 – Generate an Array of a to z
I have already talked about generating a to z in a sequence in below post. Now, I want to generate an array {"a","b","c","d","e","f","g","h","i","j","k","l","m","n","o","p","q","r","s","t","u","v", "w","x","y","z"} to use in a formula. To generate Small or Capital letters, do it while generating the sequence itself. Let's assume that a to z are generated in A1 to A26. Put…