In this post, I'll show you how you can calculate stock returns using Google Sheets. However, you can use a similar approach in Excel by using the STOCKHISTORYFUNCTION. First thing's first -- let's pull in the historical data For this example, ...
Did you know that you can group numbers in Excel using tags? By just listing all the categories an item should belong to, you can make it easier to group them. In this post, I'll show you how you can use tags in Excel to efficiently summarize differ ...
Want to create a dashboard to track the stock market and the latest business-related news? Below, I'll show you how you can create a stock market dashboard using Excel and Google Sheets to pull in all the data you'll need. If you'd prefer to just do ...
When you create a formula in Excel, your goal should always be to minimize how much you hardcode of it. By doing that, you can make your formula more dynamic and easy to update, without having to change it. Below, I'm going to show you can create dy ...
In this post, I'll show you how you can import a company's financial statements into Excel using Power Query. Previously, I've covered how to get stock prices from both Yahoo Finance and Google Sheets. But to get financial statement information, I'm ...
There are many different apps to choose from if you want to create a checklist. But if you're doing Excel work and have tasks associated with it, it may be easier to just include the checklist right within your spreadsheet. In this post, I'll show y ...
If you have values that you are plotting on a chart and some of them are zeroes, you will likely notice your chart sliding all the way down to the bottom. It can be problematic when you are entering in year-to-date data which will inevitably lead to ...
In a previous post, I showed how to get stock prices using Power Query. This time around, I'm going to show you how we can do the same for foreign exchange rates, pulling that data into Excel. For this example, I am going to use the currency convers ...
It's time for an updated dashboard post. My original post is now three years old and probably overdue for an update. This time around, I'm going to start from scratch using a real data set from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, where I'll walk you thr ...
One of the more common errors you'll run into when using Power Query is when your headers change names. If that happens, and you have a step in Power Query that alters the headers or relies on them in any way, you'll end up with an error saying a he ...
