Hello Excellers, welcome back to another #FormulaFriday #Excel blog post in my Excel 2021 series. Do you need to know how what discount has been applied to a product?. If you need to calculate the percentage discount well it is really easy. Today's Excel excitement is inspired by not only January sales discounts, but a question from a subscriber. Original Price And Discount Price. So, if you know the Original product price and also the Discounted product price, we can get Excel do … [Read more...]

Hello Excellers welcome back to another #Excel #FormulaFriday in my 2021 series. Today I want to show you how to extract the first letter of a first and second name without using Excel formulas. We can use the Excel Flash Fill feature to do this for us. So, yes Excel will do this for you without a formula or function in sight.  Here is a sample of my data set.  I have highlighted the column I want to populate with the Sales Person's initials. To get Excel to populate … [Read more...]

Hello Excellers, welcome back to another #Excel #FormulaFriday blog post in my 2021 series of Excel formula tips. So, due to a colleague asking about the GETPIVOTDATA function (which seemed to cause some confusion) I thought it was time to walk through GETPIVOTADATA . I therefore will use a sample Excel Pivot Table. So, read on to solve the GETPIVOTDATA issue. What Is The GETPIVOTDATA Function?. Have you heard of the GETPIVOTDATA function in Excel?. If you look up the Function in the … [Read more...]

Hi Excellers, this is a different #formulafriday in my Excel 2020 series.  I want to share with you 3 ways to protect your Excel formulas. So, you have spent a long time preparing your Excel spreadsheet solution, and I bet you don't want anyone to mess up it up.  So there are a few ways to protect some of those most vulnerable parts of your Excel spreadsheet. Here are my top 3 ways to protect your Excel Formulas!! Hide themLock CellsHide The Formula Bar With Some Simple … [Read more...]