Microsoft Excel

Excel Ideas will analyze your dataset and give you recommendations, or ideas, for charts, PivotTables, and PivotCharts that work with your
dataset.

You can search for text that is contained within comments, hidden or unhidden, of an Excel spreadsheet.

You can specify a default location to save your Excel workbooks. You can also “pin” other locations so that they are quickly accessible every time you save.

You can make templates in Excel for all sorts of preferred “defaults.”

Kelly L. Williams, CPA, Ph.D., explains how to use XLOOKUP, a new function for Excel 365 users that essentially replaces VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP.

It is very easy to dissect the contents of a cell in Excel using the functions LEFT, MID, and RIGHT. All three functions are easy to learn.

You can use Excel’s Camera tool to add images of Excel tables, charts, ranges, and single cells to your dashboard.

An easy way to bring attention to blank cells is to have them appear as a different color than the other cells on the worksheet.

If you have simple tasks that you need to perform in Excel often, you can actually “teach” Excel to do them for you by recording a macro.