In the event of maintaining records in Excel like Employee IDs and Transaction IDs, you will need to add leading zeroes to the dataset. You can use various ways to do this through each method has its own sets of merits and demerits. The following are ways to add leading zeroes to existing excel values.
Consistent formatting when using spreadsheet programs helps organize work and helps to come up with a good, if not excellent, job. Locking up the width of a column or height of a row in a spreadsheet reduces or limits changes to the format. It also allows one to work on a project with other users
One can set options to print the sheet's headings or titles on each page if they need to print a sheet that will have many printed pages. Excel normally is automated to provide headings for columns (A, B, C) and rows (1,2,3). You will have to type titles in your sheet that describes the content
A #REF error is a message that Excel sends when the formula references a cell that is no longer available, maybe because it has been deleted. If you have worked with formulas in Excel, you have likely come across this error. It appears when the formula has no idea where to point to as it
There are several ways to rotate texts in excel. They include using the ribbon Format dialog box, keyboard shortcuts, and default settings by changing the text orientation back to Horizontal. Rotating Text using Ribbon Alignment option Follow these steps: 1. Choose all the cells with headers 2. Click on the Home tab 3. Click on
Through line breaks, the same cell has multiple lines in Excel. However, these lines are unnecessary, so you may want to remove them from your dataset. There are different ways to remove line breaks in Excel. Using Find and Replace Method It is considered the easiest way of removing line breaks manually in Excel. The
Calculating IRR manually is time-consuming and complicated. Math-based solutions will require you first to calculate the NPV (net present value) and then use the given interest rates to find IRR on a trial and error basis. Fortunately, the process is made simple with the availability of Excel. Three functions for calculating IRR in Excel are
Microsoft Excel has patterns such as A, B, C, AA, BB, CC, AD, AA, AAB, and AAZ. Column 1 is named as A, B as 2, and 27 as AA. Therefore, finding a column letter is easy and possible, given its corresponding column number is easy. To convert a column number to the letter in
Even though Microsoft Excel has improved over the years, it is still possible to crash when working with a large data set. Factors outside Excel such as power failure could cause it to crash. You may easily lose your data if your work was not saved in the first place. However, Excel has an AutoSave
Comments are quite useful in Excel, especially when inserting formulas, and there is a need to specify what the formula does and what a cell value means. It is also important to add comments when collaborating with others for their reference. This tutorial shows you how to add comments, edit, and delete them in Excel.