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Excel essentials

Advanced Excel Skills

Analyse trends using Sparklines!

Display the relationships between formulas and cells

How to do VLOOKUP in Excel

Microsoft Excel Pivot Tables

Generate Combinations in Excel

Super User Excel tag

Top Easy 20 Microsoft Excel Shortcuts (Advance)

more shortcuts (pdf)

The 54 Excel shortcuts you really should know

Outline (group) data in a worksheet

Freezing panes versus splitting panes

Use formulas with conditional formatting

Excel – Never Use The Mouse

  • Never use the mouse. The keyboard is much faster.
  • Never type in data. You can always import it.
  • Avoid manual labour. Use Excel to automate the task.
  • Make your data visually obvious.

Some useful shortcuts:

  • Alt-E-I-S-Enter: Select a set of cells and fill a continuous series of numbers in it
  • Alt-E-S-Enter: Paste unformatted text
  • Alt-D-G-G: Group a set of rows (use Alt-D-G-U for ungroup)
  • Alt-D-G-S: Show a collapsed group (use Alt-D-G-H to collapse a group)
  • Alt-O-D: Conditional formatting
  • Alt-F8: Macros

general Excel tips

Excel – Avoid Manual Labour 3

Excel – Avoid Manual Labour 5

What is a good resource for experienced programmers to learn Excel VBA?

What's the difference between a Table and a Named Range in Excel 2007?

Absolute Structured References in Excel Table Formulas

Using structured references with Excel tables

Create or delete an Excel table

20 very popular Excel shortcuts

Select visible cells only - Alt + ; (Mac: command + shift + Z). The trick to copying only what you see. Priceless when you're manually hiding rows and columns.

Toggle filters - Control + Shift + L (Mac: Command + Shift + F). An excellent shortcut to apply and clear all filters. It's a very handy way to "reset" a table with many filters applied...just use it twice.

[Convert an Excel table to a range of data](https://support.office.com/en-us/article/convert-an-excel-table-to-a-range-of-data-0b326ff1-1764-4ebe-84ea-786265d41c77

Note: Table features are no longer available after you convert the table back to a range. For example, the row headers no longer include the sort and filter arrows, and structured references (references that use table names) that were used in formulas turn into regular cell references.)

Keyboard shortcuts in Excel for Windows

When you press the Alt key, letters appear in small images, called KeyTips, next to tabs and commands on the ribbon, as shown in the following image.

Edit the active cell

Once you are editing a cell, you can use the F2 / Ctrl+U again to toggle through available edit modes (edit, enter, point). "Point" and "Enter" work similarly and allow you to point to a cell. "Edit" mode simply moves the cursor in the formula text. Pressing F2 / Ctrl+U repeatedly will cycle through modes...you'll see the mode displayed in the status bar, in the lower left corner.

Excel Cell Modes more more

Edit cell contents

Name box

Display 'Go To' dialog box

Go to linked cells in an Excel formula (Quickly!)

On the keyboard, press, CTRL [ You will taken to the first cells used in the formula.

Excel like Vim

Stop Using Your Mouse

To navigate to the end of a column or row, press control and left or right, down or up. This will shoot you to the end of the data. You may have to press twice or more depending on if there is empty data in between the beginning and end. To highlight this data, press control + shift and left or right, down or up.

Shift + space bar highlights entire row
Control + space bar highlights entire column
... After doing either of those, press Control and + to add a column (or row).

Use Alt+tab to move between different programs (word, internet, excel, etc.)

In order to use the toolbar at the top, press ALT, which will then highlight all the functions at the top. The more you familiarize yourself with these letters, (ex: Alt + H + D + R, which deletes row in Excel 2007), the quicker they will be.

To enter a cell to adjust a formula or just to view which cells are in use, press F2.
Use the F4 function to create absolutes on formulas within cells. Based on how many times you press, you will receive varying functions, ex: $C$2, $C2, C$2. View the Code section of the DATA tab within my spreadsheet to see further. The $ keeps the cell from moving when copying formulas down or across.

When you are in a cell that is pulling data from another tab or another section within the tab you are in, press Control + [ to jump to that cell. You can use F5 + enter to return back to your original tab and cell.

Being Sensitive with Data Tables

Create an Excel data table to compare multiple results

Overview of Excel tables

Calculate multiple results by using a data table

Excel Table vs. range - which is better?

Videos

Excel basics

Structured formula references

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