May 2011

Sometimes when you import text from another source it may not be formatted in the case you want. For example it may be ALL IN CAPITALS, all lower case, or a combination of the two. There are a few functions in Excel that we can use to quickly fix the formatting of text, namely UPPER, [...]

I often create Excel workbooks that contain a series of sheets for each region (or product, month, or sales person) with a summary sheet at the front that gives me a total of all the sheets. But building workbooks like this can be onerous so I’d like to share with you a few tips for [...]

In Australia we did away with 1 and 2 cent coins years ago. So all prices, where paid in cash, are rounded down to the nearest value divisible by 5 cents. In Excel we can use the FLOOR function to calculate this value. For example: Say our price is $4.32 and we need to round [...]