Data Validation in Excel

It is important that the data you enter in spread sheet is accurate and error free. Microsoft Excel provides a Data validation tool to ensure that the entered data follows some pre-defined standards. For Example, suppose you are creating a result card of students and you know that no subject has total marks more than 100. This means that you can set a rule that no student can get marks more than 100 in any given subject. This can be done using Data Validation in excel. Every time you violate rule, a message will appear to stop you. Click here to read more

Learn Mail Merge to create copies of letter using address and name list from Excel

This article assumes that you have an Excel sheet containing Address and name of peoples and you want to post a standard letter to all of these contacts. Mail Merge, a built in feature in Microsoft word allows us to do this in few simple steps. Without Mail Merge you have to manually create separate copy of letter for each contact and copy paste address information. Click here to read more

Excel Advanced Filter

Excel Advanced Filter allows  to apply complex filtration criteria. It has all capabilities of AutoFilter plus some enhanced mechanism to filter data. For example if you want to filter only those products which have “juice” in their name or if you have a criteria on the basis of result of a function, this can be achieved by Advanced Filter.

Following are some examples of Advanced Filter

Example 1

Criteria: Find all products which have “juice” in their name, the aim is to get sale of all juices on a given date.

We shall begin with data shown in figure below. Advanced filter is different from Auto Filter. In Advanced Filter, criteria are given in cells above the actual data. As you can see in picture below our data is in range from A6 to E15 but we have similar headings above the data. Doing this we have created a criteria range available from A2 to E4. Remember we must keep an empty row between our data and criteria.

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Excel Macro | VBA Macro | Recording Excel Macro

We can programmatically control the features of ms-office application using VBA. This customization is done in Visual Basic 6 editor which is built-in feature of all office application like MS Excel. We use Visual Basic language to write programming code. Any piece of code written in VBA is called a MACRO. Click here to read more

Excel VBA | Excel Object Model

VBA stands for visual basic for applications. VBA is a programming language which is used to customize MS Excel features through piece of code. AS its name suggests, VBA infact is Visual Basic style of programming. Click here to read more

How to use vlookup | vlookup example

Vlookup function in Ms excel allows us to search in first column of a given data range and return a value from any column in corresponding row.

If exact match is not found, vlookup function can return value by approximate match.

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