tips & tricks – HowtoExcel.net https://howtoexcel.net Analytics. Automation. Process Improvement. Fri, 05 Sep 2025 05:21:17 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://howtoexcel.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/h2eicon.png tips & tricks – HowtoExcel.net https://howtoexcel.net 32 32 How to Autofill in Excel: A Step-by-Step Guide https://howtoexcel.net/2024/12/how-to-autofill-in-excel-a-step-by-step-guide.html Tue, 17 Dec 2024 04:09:47 +0000 https://howtoexcel.net/?p=9820 Autofill is one of Excel’s most powerful tools, helping you quickly and efficiently populate cells with data, formulas, or patterns. Whether you’re entering dates, numbers, or repetitive text, learning how to autofill in Excel will save you time and reduce errors. In this article, I’ll walk through the basics of using Excel’s autofill feature, along […]

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]]> How to Show Percentages as Rates Per 100,000 https://howtoexcel.net/2022/02/how-to-show-percentages-as-rates-per-100000.html https://howtoexcel.net/2022/02/how-to-show-percentages-as-rates-per-100000.html#respond Wed, 16 Feb 2022 00:33:45 +0000 http://axb.srl.mybluehost.me/?p=6700 When displaying data, using percentages isn’t always optimal, especially if you’re dealing with a very tiny number. In those cases, it may be more effective to display data as a rate per 100,000 or per 1 million, depending on how small of a number you have. Below, I’ll show you how you can move between […]

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]]> https://howtoexcel.net/2022/02/how-to-show-percentages-as-rates-per-100000.html/feed 0 How to Use Tags in Excel https://howtoexcel.net/2021/10/using-tags-in-excel.html https://howtoexcel.net/2021/10/using-tags-in-excel.html#respond Thu, 07 Oct 2021 01:50:23 +0000 http://axb.srl.mybluehost.me/?p=6279 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 different categories. Creating tags Suppose you wanted to […]

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]]> https://howtoexcel.net/2021/10/using-tags-in-excel.html/feed 0 How to Convert Month Number to Month Name in Excel https://howtoexcel.net/2021/06/how-to-convert-month-number-to-month-name.html https://howtoexcel.net/2021/06/how-to-convert-month-number-to-month-name.html#respond Mon, 21 Jun 2021 19:54:03 +0000 http://axb.srl.mybluehost.me/?p=5743 Do you have a report in Excel that lists the months as the numbers 1 through 12 and you want to convert that into the actual month names? Below, I’ll show you how you convert a month number into a month name in Excel. Here’s an example of data that shows monthly sales but it […]

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]]> https://howtoexcel.net/2021/06/how-to-convert-month-number-to-month-name.html/feed 0 9 Things You Can Do to Make Your Charts Easier to Read https://howtoexcel.net/2021/05/9-things-you-can-do-to-make-your-charts-easier-to-read.html https://howtoexcel.net/2021/05/9-things-you-can-do-to-make-your-charts-easier-to-read.html#respond Tue, 11 May 2021 23:55:57 +0000 http://axb.srl.mybluehost.me/?p=5461 An Excel chart can provide lots of useful information but if it isn’t easy to read, people may skip over its contents. There are many simple things you can do that can quickly add to the visual to make it fit seamlessly within a presentation and that makes it more effective in conveying data. If […]

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]]> https://howtoexcel.net/2021/05/9-things-you-can-do-to-make-your-charts-easier-to-read.html/feed 0 Create an Excel Drop Down List Without Blanks https://howtoexcel.net/2021/04/dropdown-lists-in-excel-without-blanks.html https://howtoexcel.net/2021/04/dropdown-lists-in-excel-without-blanks.html#respond Wed, 21 Apr 2021 16:54:52 +0000 http://axb.srl.mybluehost.me/?p=5367 In a previous post, I covered how to create a form in Excel. Although I didn’t go over drop down lists specifically, they are one element you could incorporate into them. The problem is that your list can change over time, getting bigger or smaller. And that can make it difficult to maintain if your […]

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]]> https://howtoexcel.net/2021/04/dropdown-lists-in-excel-without-blanks.html/feed 0 How to Add a Secondary Axis in Excel https://howtoexcel.net/2021/04/how-to-add-a-secondary-axis-in-excel.html https://howtoexcel.net/2021/04/how-to-add-a-secondary-axis-in-excel.html#respond Wed, 14 Apr 2021 01:59:13 +0000 http://axb.srl.mybluehost.me/?p=5348 Charts can be great tools to help visualize data. And sometimes, you will want to combine different types of information in one place. That can be tricky because if the scales are different, information may not display the way you would like it to. If something is shown in percentages while another value is in […]

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]]> https://howtoexcel.net/2021/04/how-to-add-a-secondary-axis-in-excel.html/feed 0 How to Add Checkboxes in Excel https://howtoexcel.net/2021/03/how-to-add-checkboxes-in-excel.html https://howtoexcel.net/2021/03/how-to-add-checkboxes-in-excel.html#respond Wed, 31 Mar 2021 05:48:38 +0000 http://axb.srl.mybluehost.me/?p=5266 One way you can make a form in Excel more user-friendly is by adding checkboxes to it. There are a few different ways you can do this which I’ll cover and I will also show you how you might incorporate this into a sample pricing sheet. What you need to do first before you can […]

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]]> https://howtoexcel.net/2021/03/how-to-add-checkboxes-in-excel.html/feed 0 How to Get Stock Quotes From Yahoo Finance Using Power Query https://howtoexcel.net/2021/03/how-to-get-stock-quotes-from-yahoo-finance-using-power-query.html https://howtoexcel.net/2021/03/how-to-get-stock-quotes-from-yahoo-finance-using-power-query.html#respond Thu, 18 Mar 2021 08:10:06 +0000 http://axb.srl.mybluehost.me/?p=5050 There are a few different ways you can pull stock prices into Excel. You can use the new STOCKHISTORY function, pull data from Google Sheets which has a native stock function, or you can also use Power Query. In this post, Power Query is what I am going to focus on and show you how […]

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]]> https://howtoexcel.net/2021/03/how-to-get-stock-quotes-from-yahoo-finance-using-power-query.html/feed 0 How to Convert Numbers From Billions to Millions to Thousands in Excel https://howtoexcel.net/2021/03/how-to-convert-numbers-from-billions-to-millions-to-thousands-in-excel.html https://howtoexcel.net/2021/03/how-to-convert-numbers-from-billions-to-millions-to-thousands-in-excel.html#respond Thu, 11 Mar 2021 10:45:11 +0000 http://axb.srl.mybluehost.me/?p=4931 Depending on what kind of data you are working with and how you need to present it, you may need to show numbers in thousands, millions, or billions. Below, I’ll show you how you can quickly and easily make those conversions. You’ll also learn how to add a letter behind each number to indicate either […]

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