Power BI visualizations often have a Tooltip section with which is a feature that enables focus on specific attributes. For example, if you hover an item shown in the report, you can see information about the manufacturer, number of brands, average price, etc. Something like this does not exist in Excel, but if we can mark items in some way, it is possible, with a little improvisation, affect the display of attributes. To do this, we will use the Checkbox option…
Everyone knows that at the end of the year I often post “recipes” that have something to do with the Christmas and New Year holidays. This time I decided to show you how to combine Excel and Microsoft Forms, a Microsoft 365 service used to create questionnaires, quizzes, polls… In this text, you will find out how to create a New Year’s questionnaire by creating a form directly from Excel.
When you enter phone numbers in a cell, you must enter them as text which means that you should add an apostrophe before entering the number. In this case, it is best to enter the number in international format. If you don’t want to think about codes and calling numbers, you can retrieve this data from the auxiliary records, and then join them with the help of the TEXTJOIN function. You will find out how to enter email addresses and phone numbers in the following text.
How to count words? There is no longer a need to send telegrams, and the need to count words seldom arises. However, this is a nice opportunity to try out how to use the TEXTSPLIT function in combination with some other Excel functions. Who knows, maybe this will be useful to you one day? In honor of Pink Floyd, let’s count the words in the song “Shine On You Crazy Diamond”.
Arranging data sets in Excel reports can sometimes get complicated, for example when you are editing a list of visitors to your stand at a business fair or congress. Then we usually manually copy the lists, merge them, and further remove duplicates. Excel has some new functions that allow you to literally do this procedure in a couple of steps, and in the following “recipe” you will find out how to apply them in practice.