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Did you have a lots of data in a text document and you wish you could easily copy that to Excel?
Keyboard Shortcuts
You will save tons of time and make moves like a ninja once you master the keyboard shortcuts. Here are some of my favorites:Copy Formula Down
To quickly copy a formula down:Copying Values or Formulas
When tip #2 doesn’t work because there’s a blank cell between your starting cell and the end cell of your range or you don¢t want to drag a formula down to 1000 rows, try this:You can see the name box highlighted in the red box. You will find this box right next to the fFormula Bar
Total a Column or a Row
To quickly total a column or a row, in the last cell, hit |Alt + =| (equal to sign).Delete Duplicate Rows
To delete rows with duplicated data, follow these steps:Add Leading Zeros
You often find the need to add leading zeros to a number and most likely the result value is a text format. For example, you may want to show the number 7893 as 0000007893, making the number a text value with a length of 10 characters. If your number is in A1 and you want to convert that to text with leading zeros with a maximum length of 10 characters, enter this formula in B1:=TEXT(A1,REPT("0",10))
Repeat Header for Printing
While printing a multi-page sheet, it is useful to repeat the header row(s) on every page. To do so,Create Named Ranges
For sheets with large number of rows, it is useful to give names to ranges so that you can refer to these names in your formulas without clicking and selecting long ranges. To quickly give names to your ranges:Copy Values
To speed up copying only values and not the formulas, use this keyboard shortcut sequence:The whole sequence is:
Ctrl + A, Ctrl + C, Alt + E, S, V, Enter
After you practice this a couple of times, when you do this in front of your peers, without a doubt they will be in awe of your new ninja abilities.
Import a Table from the Web
Often you need to import data from the internet and you wish for a better way of doing so. Well, here is one way. Let¢s say you want to import the list of all time leaders of home run hitters in baseball from baseball almanac. Follow these steps to enjoy seeing this data in an Excel file:Only a ninja can import raw tables from the web to the Excel files!
Delete Current Row(s)
To quickly delete current row(s), follow these two stepsDelete Current Column(s)
To quickly delete current column(s), follow these two stepsQuick Aggregation
Quick Tool provide aggregate statistics, such as Average, Count, Numerical Count, Max, Min, and Sum of the data from a selected range without entering any formula. To show these statistics in the bottom toolbar, right click on the toolbar and choose the desired statistic.Finding a Related Value
Often you have to translate or cross-walk a value, say a state code, to it a related value, in this case the fully spelled state name. You can write multiple, nested |IF|, but a ninja way is to use a |VLOOKUP| formula. The syntax of VLOOKUP formula is: =VLOOKUP(lookup_value,table_array,col_index_num,range_lookup)Let’s say, your customer IDs in Column A, their mailing state code in Column B, and in Column C you want to see the state spelled out. To do so, follow these steps:
Create a table of codes and their fully-spelled values in Column E and F
In |C2|, enter this formula: =VLOOKUP(B2,E3:F6,2,0)
Copy the formula down
Converting Numbers to Ranges
Did you ever find yourself with the need to convert a number column to discrete ranges for easier summaries or graphs? Did you wish there was a better way? Well, there is: the |VLOOKUP| formula. You saw the syntax: The syntax of VLOOKUP formula is:=VLOOKUP(lookup_value,table_array,col_index_num,range_lookup) To convert numbers to ranges, you use the |range_lookup| argument with a value of |TRUE|, which will tell Excel to make an approximate match to the lookup value. We can use this to our advantage. Let’s say, you have some measure, such as, population, revenue, sales, # of units, etc, in Column A. You want to convert these measures to certain ranges. To do so, follow these steps:Text to Columns
Did you have a lots of data in a text document and you wish you could easily copy that to Excel? Let’s say you have a Word document with some bullet points, like this:To copy and keep the desired formatting for easier manipulation, follow these steps:
The text will be separated by your delimiter and data will be in separate columns
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