Matt Refghi

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Transcription So the Excel sheet in front of you acts like a phone book. You enter a name and then you’re provided with a phone number. And this works because I have formulas within this cell, we’ll take a look at that shortly. But I also added another feature that lets you lookup by number, not just by name. And if you do this, you can see the result is “Nothing found” because there’s no phone number that’s called “Sawyer, Allen”. So we’re going to delete this, and instead we’re going to search for “Sawyer, Allen”‘s phone number, so in this case it’s 999-174-5493, press ENTER, and there you go, it finds a name. That’s great and all, but let’s … Read more

Transcription Excel is capable of drawing arrows that show you how cells relate to one another. I’ll show you how it works. So in front of you is kind of a phonebook type application – you can see that I can type a value, in this case I typed “Armstrong, Audrey”, and that it actually pulls up Audrey’s phone number, and if you look here, it also highlights it in green on the side. But what we’re going to be focusing on is this cell right here, we’re going to leave it selected and we’re going to go up to the formulas tab in the ribbon, and in the “Formula Auditing” section we’re going to click “Trace precedents.” What this … Read more

Transcription Did you ever wonder how you could move columns in Excel? Here’s how you do it – in my case, I want to move the “extension” column, which is column D right here, so that it appears right after the “name” column. To achieve that, I have to select the “extension” column, and while it’s selected, you’ll notice that there’s green borders to the left and right. I have to move my mouse to one of these borders, doesn’t really matter which one, and as soon as I hover on the border itself, you’ll notice that the mouse cursor changes. It’s at this moment that I have to press left-click and hold – I can then move the mouse … Read more

Transcription So let’s say I have three bookshelves at home that are packed with movies, and I need to keep an Excel workbook just to know which bookshelf has which movie. So if you look here, I have movie titles and format, I also have three sheets at the bottom: bookshelf 1, bookshelf 2, and bookshelf 3. They’re all identical in format, the only difference is they have a different list of movies. Let’s say I wanted to add a background color to the header, just to make things a little prettier, in this sheet. To do that, I would select row one, select the paintbucker tool here, select the color I wanted, and release. And there you go, I … Read more

Transcription Hey, so you know how in Windows if you want to move a file, all you have to do is left-click the file, hold the left mouse button down, and drag the file somewhere else and release? It’s that simple. But what if you wanted to do the same thing, but with a copy. Here’s how you do it. Let’s start by putting the file back to where it was… ok. So now instead of left-clicking the file, I’m going to right-click and hold, and then move the mouse just like I did before, and release on my desktop. Notice how a little menu pops up? Copy here, move here, and create shortcuts here are my options. In this … Read more

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Transcription Okay, so I have a CSV right here, also known as a comma-separated value file. And let’s say I wanted to change the delimiter in this file from commas to semi-colons. Now there’s not many rows in this particular file, so I could almost manually do it, but what if you want to do it quicker than that? Well I could do a find replace, so for example I did CTRL+F in this case in Notepad++, and then went to replace, I’m going search for comma, and I’m going to put semi-colon to replace it, but the problem with that, if I replace them all, you’ll notice that the names had commas in them, Kiley, Terra, and now that’s … Read more

Transcription Let’s say you’re in Excel, and you want to select all the rows that are in your sheet. You could just use your mouse, select the first option, click, hold the left mouse button, drag, and then pull all the way down. But you know, you might have a bunch of rows that you’re dealing with, and you don’t want to do this manually. Well thankfully there’s an easy way around this and I just wanted to show you guys. So if you go back to the top, for example, and you select the first cell and then hold shift on your keyboard, and use the arrow keys, here I’m pressing to the right, you can see that I’m … Read more