Top 5 Tips & Tricks for Microsoft Excel | Beginners

Microsoft Excel is an integral tool for most businesses. Some people enjoy the capabilities of Excel, finding it to be a useful tool that allows them to easily manage, report on, and illustrate tables of data. Others, however, find it tedious and downright obtuse, unable to make heads or tails of what Excel can do for them aside from keeping things in neat columns and rows. Are you the person who finds it confusing? That’s okay. We have some Excel tips that can make your life with this database multi-tool much easier and more productive. You might even have fun learning some Excel functions along the way.

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1. Quick Analysis Toolbar

The Quick Analysis tool is used to analyze your data quickly and easily using different Excel tools. You can use Quick Analysis with a range or a table of data. Watch the Steps here

2. Drop-Down List

Drop down lists can greatly facilitate data entry, it is actually helpful in Excel. if you want to be sure that users select an item from a list, instead of typing their own values. Watch the Steps here

3. Transpose

Everyone looks at data in varied ways. Sometimes you create Excel spreadsheets where the main fields go across horizontally in a row and sometimes you put the data vertically. Occasionally, these preferences lead to a scenario where you want to transpose Excel data. Transpose is an Excel function that allows you to switch Excel columns to rows without retyping the data. Watch the Steps here

4. AutoFit Column Width

Changing the width of a column in Excel is one of the most common tasks that you perform daily when designing your reports, summary tables or dashboards, and even when using worksheets only to store or calculate data. Microsoft Excel provides a variety of ways to manipulate the column width - you can resize columns using the mouse, set the width to a specific number or have it adjusted automatically to accommodate the data. Watch the Steps here

5. Filter

Filter is a great feature to quickly display the rows in your data table that meet a certain criteria. The remaining rows that don’t match your criteria are automatically hidden. Once you have your selection in view, you can edit the entries or copy the filtered list to another location. Watch the Steps here

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