How to Modify Multiple Excel Sheets at the Same Time

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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

How to Copy Files in Windows By Dragging the Mouse

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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

How to Change the Delimiters Used by Excel for CSVs

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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

How to Quickly Select A Group of Cells in Excel (Keyboard Shortcuts)

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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

Why VLOOKUP Isn’t as Precise as You Might Think (And How To Fix It!)

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Transcription So today, I’d like to show you that the VLOOKUP function, by default, is really not as precise as you think it is, unless you understand how it works. The same applies to HLOOKUP. So, as you can see, the file in front of you right now is kind of like a phone book – on the right hand side, you can see I have names and their associated phone numbers. I can scroll down, you’ll see I have a bunch of these. And on the left-hand side I have a few features – so there’s a text box here that we’ll be interacting with shortly. This is where I can type in a name, and if there’s a … Read more