Excel Tips and Tricks for All Levels

I have been using this quick trick lately to check for duplicates in a column of values.  Let’s say you have a list of a large group of numbers (characters work as well) and want to see if you have more than one instance of any of the numbers.  To check for that, one simple [...]

The substitute formula is an relatively simple formula that can come in handy in many situations.  I like to use this formula the most when a longer text field needs just a portion of it changed, without having to retype the entire cell value.  Let’s go ahead and take a look at the substitute formula: [...]

Whether you are trying to buy a new house, looking at buying a new car or applying for MORE student loans, you have no doubt wondered what your monthly payment would be. Excel provides an easy to use formula in which you can enter the loan information, and it will calculate the monthly payment for you.  [...]

How many times have you tried to import a file into Excel, only to have extra blanks all over the place in the document?  Well that’s where the Trim Formula can come into play.  The Trim formula is used to clean up and remove all the leading and trailing blanks as well as all but one blank in-between [...]