Advance Filter in Excel – how to create and use

Advance Filter in Excel – how to create and use

This guide explains the basics of Excel’s Advanced Filter and shows you how to use it to find records that match one or more complicated conditions.
If you’ve read our previous guide, you know that Excel’s regular filter offers different options for filtering text, numbers, and dates. These options work well for many situations, but not all. When the regular filter isn’t enough, you can use the Advanced Filter to set up custom criteria that fit your exact needs.
Excel’s Advanced Filter is especially useful for finding data based on two or more complex conditions. For example, you can use it to find matches and differences between two columns, filter rows that match another list, or find exact matches with the same uppercase and lowercase letters.
Advanced Filter is available in all Excel versions from 365 to 2003. Click the links below to learn more.

How to convert  CSV file to Excel (open or import)

How to convert CSV file to Excel (open or import)

This tutorial shows how to quickly change CSV files into Excel in any version, from 365 to 2007, without common problems.
There are two main ways to move a CSV file to Excel: by opening it directly or by importing it as external data. This article gives step-by-step instructions for both methods, explains their pros and cons, and highlights potential problems with tips to fix them

How to mail merge from Excel to Word

How to mail merge from Excel to Word

This step-by-step guide will show you how to easily do mail merge in Word using an Excel sheet.
Mail Merge can save you a lot of time when you need to send letters or emails to many people. It helps you create personalized letters, emails, or labels in Word by combining the information from your Excel sheet. This guide gives an overview of the main steps and explains how to do a mail merge from Excel in an easy way

How to color alternate rows in Excel: highlight every other row

How to color alternate rows in Excel: highlight every other row

This tutorial shows you how to change the row colors in Excel to automatically highlight every other row or every nth row or column in your worksheets. You will also learn how to use Excel’s banded rows and columns and find some helpful formulas to shade rows based on value changes.
Using alternating colors for rows in Excel is a common way to make data easier to read. While it’s simple to manually highlight rows in a small table, it can be very time-consuming in larger tables. A better approach is to automatically alternate the colors of rows or columns, and this article will show you how to do it quickly

Excel Nested IF statement: examples, best practices and alternatives

Excel Nested IF statement: examples, best practices and alternatives

This guide shows how to use the nested IF function in Excel to check several conditions. You will also learn about other functions that can be to use than a nested formula.
When you want to make decisions in Excel, you often use an IF formula. It checks if something is true, then gives one result if it is and another result if it isn’t. If you need to check more than one thing, you can put many IFs inside each other.
Although using multiple IFs is common, it’s not the only way to check several conditions in Excel. This guide will introduce you to some easier and useful alternatives.

Correlation in Excel: coefficient, matrix and graph

Correlation in Excel: coefficient, matrix and graph

This tutorial teaches the basics of correlation in Excel. It shows how to find a correlation coefficient, make a correlation matrix, and understand the results.
Correlation is one of the easiest calculations you can do in Excel. Even though it’s easy, it helps a lot in understanding how two or more things are related. Excel has all the tools you need to do a correlation analysis—you just need to know how to use them

Linear regression analysis in Excel

Linear regression analysis in Excel

The tutorial teaches you the basics of regression analysis and shows a few ways to do linear regression in Excel.
Imagine this: you have a lot of data and need to predict next year’s sales for your company. You’ve found many factors that could affect the sales, maybe even hundreds. But how do you know which ones really matter? You can use regression analysis in Excel. It will help answer this and other questions, like: Which factors are important and which ones don’t matter? How connected are these factors? And how confident can you be in your predictions?”

How to use Goal Seek in Excel for What-If analysis

How to use Goal Seek in Excel for What-If analysis

This tutorial shows how to use Goal Seek in Excel 365 – 2010 to get the result you want by changing an input value.
What-If Analysis is one of Excel’s most powerful but least understood features. Simply put, it lets you try out different scenarios and see possible outcomes. In other words, it helps you see how changes affect your data without actually changing the real data. In this tutorial, we’ll focus on one of Excel’s What-If Analysis tools—Goal Seek