How to Make a Calendar in Excel
Monday, November 18th, 2019 / by Excel Champ
The holidays are usually a pretty busy affair for everyone, from shopping to parties to travel. However, when you manage a team at your business, it gets even harder. You need to keep up with all the days off and time-off requests of employees, while also making sure you have enough coverage for all the […]
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Using Microsoft Excel For Project Management
Saturday, November 9th, 2019 / by Excel Champ
If you’re looking for quality project management software, you’ve most likely seen a vast number of options available. Sadly, many of these choices cost thousands of dollars and are simply out of reach for most small businesses. With that said, you most likely have a very powerful project management software solution already installed on your […]
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Top 5 Microsoft Excel Functions Everyone Should Know
Monday, October 21st, 2019 / by Excel Champ
Spreadsheets might seem boring, but they’re incredibly versatile and there are a lot of useful functions that can save you time and make you look like a genius at work. Here’s a quick list of Microsoft Excel functions everyone should know. 1 – Paste Special Do you ever find yourself struggling with copying and pasting […]
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Top 6 Excel Formulas Every Finance Analyst Must Know
Saturday, September 28th, 2019 / by Excel Champ
Entrepreneurs spend thousands on accounting experts so that they can provide a transparent picture of their company’s status for a specific period. The accounting experts and financial analysts spend a lot of time preparing annual reports to give their clients the report they need. This requires a lot of skills in Microsoft Excel. They need […]
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A Step By Step Guide on Using Excel in PowerApps
Thursday, September 12th, 2019 / by Excel Champ
Pro-level PowerApps users now import excel sheets in their files to facilitate report making. They use Microsoft Excel as the data source that links with the new PowerApp file and helps to input the information they require. Interested in learning about how to implement this trick? Let’s take a quick look. Step 1 Open the […]
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Detecting and Preventing Worksheet Errors in Excel
Thursday, August 22nd, 2019 / by Excel Champ
Excel is an incredibly powerful tool for working with long lists of numbers and even complex datasets. The bigger and more complex the data gets, however, the more likely it is that errors will creep into the formulas that you are using. Sometimes, diagnosing those errors can be tricky. The cell which throws the error […]
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How to Visualize Data in Excel and Make Appealing Charts
Friday, July 12th, 2019 / by Excel Champ
Charts help to make various graphical representations visually impressive. In Excel, the visual representation of your data story will determine how well your presentation is received. But, where will you visualize data in Excel? Here’s what you need to do: 1. Error-free spreadsheet The first thing to ensure is to keep the excel sheet free […]
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All About Excel Pivot Tables
Friday, June 7th, 2019 / by Excel Champ
Pivot tables are a powerful data analysis tool that you can use to get insights into the data that you are working with. To create pivot tables, you need to first of all organize your data into clear rows and columns with labels that make sense for the data that you are working with, so […]
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Using Power Query to Clean Your Excel Data
Thursday, May 9th, 2019 / by Excel Champ
Power Query is a handy feature in Excel that helps you to clean your data, and change it into the format that you need it in. Power Query has been available in Excel for a long time, although in Excel 2016 it was called Get and Transform instead. This tool is an ETL (Extract, Transform […]
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Select New Features in Excel 2019
Wednesday, October 24th, 2018 / by Excel Champ
Microsoft is rolling out several new features in Excel 2019, some of which are already available to Office 365 Subscribers. Here we will highlight a few of our favorites: Funnel Charts and the IFS, MAXIFS, MINIFS and SWITCH functions. Funnel Charts Funnel charts are commonly used in sales organizations to show how leads are converted […]
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Data Prep: Unformat your Formatted Tables
Friday, October 19th, 2018 / by Excel Champ
Tables come in many styles and formats. For reporting purposes, the better a table is formatted, the easier it is to read. However, formatting is often our enemy when we attempt to use the data for analysis, database, and data integration purposes. In this blog post, we will demonstrate how to unformat a table and […]
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Create a Heatmap from a Large Data Set using Excel’s Power Maps
Thursday, September 13th, 2018 / by Excel Champ
One of the exciting new features of Excel 2016 is the capability to generate geographical maps. This feature, called Power Maps, is now also available for Excel 2013. The types of maps that can be generated with Power Maps are only limited by your imagination! After covering the basics, we will demonstrate how to create […]
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