Why use dollar sign ($) in Excel formulas – absolute and relative cell references
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Why use dollar sign ($) in Excel formulas – absolute and relative cell references

When creating a formula in Excel, many people get confused by the $ symbol in cell references. But it’s actually very simple. The dollar sign in an Excel cell reference tells Excel whether to keep the reference the same or allow it to change when you copy the formula to other cells. This guide will explain how it works and why it’s helpful.
Understanding Excel cell references is really important. Knowing the difference between absolute, relative, and mixed references will help you get the most out of Excel formulas and functions.

Advance Filter in Excel – how to create and use
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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 mail merge from Excel to Word
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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
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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
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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.

File Manager Tool

File Manager Tool

File Manager tool is an Excel based tool which helps you to delete or move unwanted files from your system. It requires a source and destination folder (in case you want to move files). First it lists all the files available in the folder or sub-folders then you can select the action to be taken for each file such as Move or Delete. With a click of button, tool will take all necessary actions.

Time and Motion Professional Tracker

Time and Motion Professional Tracker

Time and Motion Tracker is an MS Excel based tool which helps you to track Start and End time of any type of transaction or activity. The tool is developed using VBA coding which helps you to protect manual manipulation in the data by the user. It is also easy to use, just click on Start (shortcut: Ctrl+W) or Stop (Ctrl+E) buttons to record the time stamp. This is professional version of our famous Time & Motion Tracker. This version includes features such as Hold Timer, Consolidation, Utilization Analysis, Dashboards etc.