Learn Microsoft Excel Online FreeSuppose both positive numbers and negative numbers exist in a table. If we want to know the average of only positive numbers in this table, we can create a formula to get average of all positive numbers with all negative numbers ignored. In this article, we will help you to construct a formula with AVERAGE… read more »
VLOOKUP is one of the key functions among all lookup & reference functions in Excel. Today we will show you the application of VLOOKUP function when there are two lookup tables. EXAMPLE Table1 and table2 record the rates of Y2020 and Y2021 separately. Rates are increased in Y2021. In “Statistic” table, we want to fill… read more »
In Excel, INDEX function and MATCH function are often used together for returning data from specific position. And MATCH function is one of Excel lookup & reference functions that can return approximate value by setting match type. Above all, through generating a formula with INDEX and MATCH function, we can get an approximate value properly… read more »
Suppose you are counting the numbers of participants who are the winners in a competition. And the passing line is provided as pass 4 out of 5 rounds of games. You need to know if participant pass the game or not firstly. If you are familiar with the functions in Excel and can use them… read more »
AVERAGE function is one of the most popular functions in Excel. Apply AVERAGE together with some other functions, we can calculate average simply for some complex situations. In this article, we will introduce you to calculate average of the last N numbers from a range contains both numeric values and non-numeric values. EXAMPLE In this… read more »
This post will guide you how to average a list of values and ignoring any errors in the given range in Excel 2013/2016 or Excel office 365. You can use the AVERAGEIF function or AGGREGATE function to calculate the average of a range of cells which might include some errors in Excel. Average Cells Ignoring… read more »
Sometimes we may meet the case that subtotal values for different groups and only record a subtotal value for one group in a column, for other cells in this group, keep them blank. Today we will introduce you how can we subtotal values for groups and record subtotal values only in specific cells. We can… read more »
This post will guide you how to get running count of an occurrence in a list with formula in Excel 2013/2016 or Excel office 365. How to create a running count of certain values that appear in the given range of cells in your worksheet in Excel. Running Count of Occurrence in List Assuming you… read more »
We have talked that how to count unique numeric values in a data set in Excel in the previous post. And this post will guide you how to count unique numeric values with criteria in the range in Excel 2013/2016 or Excel office 365. How do I count the unique numeric values with a criteria… read more »
This post will guide you how to count the number of cells that contain errors within a range of cells using a formula in Excel 2013/2016.You can easily to count cells equal to a specific value or text string through COUNTIF function. But if there is an easy way to count cells contain errors in… read more »
Sometimes we may have the requirement that subtotal data by group in a table. To just subtotal data in a column, we can use SUM function directly; for data in a column, amount data in another column, we can use SUMIF function to subtotal data. But to subtotal data in group, we need to classify… read more »
To compare two columns and remove the duplicate values, we have already posted a tutorial about how to solve this problem by ‘Conditional Formatting’ feature ‘Remove Duplicate’ rule. Actually, there are some other ways to solve it as well. If you are not familiar with ‘Conditional Formatting’ feature, you can also use a formula to… read more »
This post will guide you how to extract another cell value if one specified cell equals to a given value or an adjacent cell value using a formula in Excel 2013/2016. Normally, if you want to do some operation when a given cell equals a certain value, and you can create a new formula based… read more »
This post will guide you how to concatenate cells but ignore all blank cells in your worksheet in Excel. How do I concatenate cells but ignore blank cells with a formula in Excel. How to create a concatenate formula to skip blank cells with user defined function in Excel 2013/2016. Concatenating Cells but Ignore Blanks… read more »
In our daily work we may need to create a dynamical dropdown list and sort all values by alphabetical order. To create a dropdown list like this, we need to apply some built-in features like ‘Define Name’ and ‘Data Validation’ features, and we also need the help of formula which is combined with excel functions…. read more »
Sometimes we need to count time difference when participating a contest or an exam, and if the time difference (between start time and end time) is greater than certain time, participants are failed in the contest. So, in this situation we need to know the method to compare time difference with certain time. This article… read more »
Sometimes there are some blank cells exist in created table, if we want to mark them with user-defined text to make them easier to be found out, how can we do? Actually, there are several ways to implement this. In this article, we will introduce you two tricks to display user defined text in blank… read more »
Suppose we have two lists, list A contains all students, list B only contains students who passed exam. So, list A is longer than list B, and students in list B are all included in list A. If we want to find out which student failed the exam, we can though compare the two list… read more »
We have a range of dates and we want to look up the earliest and the latest date based on certain criteria like the earliest date for a showing movie, we can use MIN and MAX functions with IF function or INDEX function together to find the matched date based on some criteria. Except using… read more »
In our daily life we often create tables for recording the money we spend for lunch or dinner or something else per date. This can help us know the total cost or average cost per date or other unit clearly via some statistic related functions in excel, and then we can cut back on unnecessary… read more »
