For example, given the 2020-04-23 can you return the value April? Yes, of course you can! Excel can do it all. In this post you’ll learn 8 ways you can get the month name from a date value. Long Date Format You can get the month name by formatting your dates! Good news, this is super easy to do! Format your dates: This will format the date 2020-04-23 as April 23, 2020, so you’ll be able to see the full English month name....

Sort Data in Alphabetical Order In this post, I will show you various ways to sort data in alphabetical order using formulas. This means you can add data, and it will automatically sort it for you. When the Data is all Text with No Duplicates Suppose you have a data as shown below: In this example, all the data is in text format (no numbers, blanks or duplicates). To sort this, I will use a helper column....

The rows and columns arguments function like “offsets” from the starting reference. The height and width arguments, both optional, determine how many rows and columns the final range includes. We want OFFSET to return a range that begins at the last entry and expands “backwards” so we supply arguments as follows: reference - the starting reference is D5 – the cell directly to the right of the formula, and the first cell in the range of values we are working with....

which calculates the circumference of a circle with the radius given in column B. The Greek letter π (“pi”) represents the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. In Excel, π is represented in a formula with the PI function, which returns the number 3.14159265358979, accurate to 15 digits. Therefore, the formula to calculate the circumference of a circle with a radius of 3 is: And the formula to calculate circumference based on the radius values in column B, is:...

For example, in the below example, the value in column A and B is the same, but these are displayed differently because of the format. And one of the things many people need in Excel is to convert the time to decimal (such as hours or minutes or seconds). For example, instead of having the date and time as 01-01-2020 6:30 AM, you may want the get: Number of hours as 6 Number of minutes as 30...

Since it was a small list of pages and the list was static, I decided to use the Enter Data feature. In this post, we’re going to look at how to copy and paste data from an Excel workbook or text file into Power BI using the Enter Data feature. Video Tutorial Why Use The Enter Data Feature? This feature would usually only be used for a supplementary data table....

where data is the named range B5:B15. The result is 7, since there are seven cells in B5:B15 that contain numbers greater than zero. COUNTIF function The COUNT function counts the number of cells in a range that match supplied criteria. For example, you can use COUNTIF like this: To count positive numbers in this example, we need to use the less than operator (<) with zero like this: The result is 7, since there are seven cells in B5:B15 that contain numbers greater than zero....

In the example, the active cell contains this formula: Upper and lower case SUBSTITUTE is a case sensitive function, so it will match case when running a substitution. If you need to count both upper and lower case occurrences of a specific character, use the UPPER function inside SUBSTITUTE to convert the text to uppercase before running the substitution. Then supply an uppercase character as the text that’s being substituted like this:...

where “holidays” is the named range E5:E6. The formula above returns TRUE, since Monday, Dec. 21, 2015 is a workday. Since we want to check a single date and get a TRUE or FALSE result, we would ideally use WORKDAY with the simple formula below: However, this doesn’t work, since WORKDAY does not seem to evaluate a date when no offset is present. The solution is supply (date-1) for start_date, 1 for days, and the named range “holidays” (E5:E6) for holidays....

Where categories is the named range G5:H7, the result is a due date in column E that is based on the category assigned in column C. This kind of formula can be used to set due dates, shipping dates, and other end dates where a group or category determines how much time is allotted. Calculating days The first task in this problem is to calculate the number of days to use for each category, as shown in the range G5:H7....

Although new dynamic array functions will get a lot of attention, it’s important to understand that dynamic array behavior is native and deeply integrated. All formulas will now run on a new calculation engine. This means that when a formula returns multiple results, these results will spill into multiple cells on the worksheet. This includes older functions and formulas not originally designed to work with dynamic arrays. For example, the LEN function returns the number of characters in a string....

Office 365 brings with some awesome functions – such as XLOOKUP, SORT, and FILTER. When it comes to filtering data in Excel, in the pre-Office 365 world, we were mostly dependent on Excel in-built filter or at max the Advanced filter or complex SUMPRODUCT formulas. In case you had to filter a part of a dataset, it was usually a complex workaround (something I have covered here). But with the new FILTER function, it’s now really easy to quickly filter part of the dataset based on a condition....

In other words, the general concept of nesting is that the “outer” formula is doing something useful and the “inner” formula is providing something the “outer” formula needs to do the job. Usually, the inner function(s) make it possible to avoid hard-coding information into the “outer” function, since hard-coding makes a formula less useful and portable. Example In the example shown, the formula in D4 uses nesting to calculate the current age of a person based on their birthdate: In this formula, the TODAY function is nested inside of the YEARFRAC function, which is nested inside the INT function....

As Timothy R. Mayes, author of Financial Analysis with Microsoft Excel, says on his website TVMCalcs.com: Net present value is defined as the present value of the expected future cash flows less the initial cost of the investment…the NPV function in spreadsheets doesn’t really calculate NPV. Instead, despite the word “net,” the NPV function is really just a present value of an uneven cash flow function. One simple approach is to exclude the initial investment from the values argument and instead subtract the amount outside the NPV function....

First, any expressions in parentheses are evaluated. Parentheses essentially override the normal order of operations to ensure certain operations are performed first. Next, Excel will resolve references. This involves replacing cell references like A1 with the value from the cell, as well as evaluating range references like A1:A5, which become arrays of values. Other range operations like union (comma) and intersection (space) also happen at this time. Next, Excel will perform exponentiation, negation, and percent conversions (in that order), followed by multiplication and division, addition and subtraction, and concatenation....

ROUNDDOWN takes two arguments, number and num_digits. Number is the number to be rounded, and num_digits is the place at which number should be rounded. When num_digits is greater than zero, the ROUNDDOWN function rounds on the right side of the decimal point. When num_digits is less or equal to zero, the ROUNDDOWN function rounds on the left side of the decimal point. Use zero (0) for num_digits to round to the nearest integer....

Dave Bruns Hi - I’m Dave Bruns, and I run Exceljet with my wife, Lisa. Our goal is to help you work faster in Excel. We create short videos, and clear examples of formulas, functions, pivot tables, conditional formatting, and charts.

Dave Bruns Hi - I’m Dave Bruns, and I run Exceljet with my wife, Lisa. Our goal is to help you work faster in Excel. We create short videos, and clear examples of formulas, functions, pivot tables, conditional formatting, and charts.

Dave Bruns Hi - I’m Dave Bruns, and I run Exceljet with my wife, Lisa. Our goal is to help you work faster in Excel. We create short videos, and clear examples of formulas, functions, pivot tables, conditional formatting, and charts.

Dave Bruns Hi - I’m Dave Bruns, and I run Exceljet with my wife, Lisa. Our goal is to help you work faster in Excel. We create short videos, and clear examples of formulas, functions, pivot tables, conditional formatting, and charts.