excel

The need to see data with clarity will never disappear in business. A spreadsheet that is well formatted, flexible and professional looking reduces the potential for errors and misinterpretation. Excel offers a nearly universal means by which to communicate data and numbers. Excel has been around since 1985, and it’s one of the few software […]

Utilizing the Immediate Window The immediate window is a console of sorts that allows the user to enter VBA code that can be directly evaluated or executed during the development or debugging process. It is useful for checking values and states at various points in the execution of a routine. It can also be used […]

The VLOOKUP function is one of the staple functions that Microsoft Excel users rely upon for finding values in a table. With the VLOOKUP function, a value can be looked up in the leftmost column and a related value can be returned from another column. The Syntax for VLOOKUP is VLOOKUP(lookup_value, table_array, col_index_num, [range_lookup]) Lookup […]

Excel users frequently have a need to lookup data in one spreadsheet and use it in another. To make this job easier, Excel offers built in functions for finding information: INDEX, MATCH, and VLOOKUP. The advantages and disadvantages of these functions are presented below. INDEX INDEX returns a value from a range or an array […]

Imagine that you’re 12 worksheets into a financial plan and you need to sum all the subtotals from each worksheet. The thought of creating some long formula that will probably need to be changed later may make you cringe. You know there must be an easier way to do this and, fortunately for you, there […]

Excel is a spreadsheet. At least that is the extent many users get with Excel. It is capable of so much more. Rather than organize customers and accounts, you can organize map locations, health, damage, locations and other parameters that games must manage as well. It can be taken even farther and build the games […]