How Excel COUNTIF function saves time when analyzing final grades
When analyzing grades (especially for a large class) the COUNTIF function in Excel can be extremely helpful.
Microsoft Excel
Add Favorites to the Ribbon
You can add all your favorite or frequently used Excel features in one tab on your Ribbon.
Print comments and notes in one place
It is very simple to view and print all the notes and comments within an Excel worksheet in one place.
Use Clipboard history to easily paste multiple items
You can access and paste the last 25 items that you copied from Excel and other Microsoft Office applications.
Eliminate asterisks from data in Excel
One of the easiest ways to remove specific text, letters, or symbols from an Excel spreadsheet is to use the Find and Replace feature.
Use the Camera tool in Excel to create dynamic screenshots
The Camera tool is a handy function that allows you and your students to see how part of one spreadsheet changes in real time when you make changes to another.
2 ways to recover unsaved Excel files
The good news is that, most of the time, your file can be recovered. You just have to know where to find it.
Format column headings in Excel to make them easier to read
Learn three simple formatting tricks to make column headings – or other cells – more readable in Excel.
Excel depreciation advice; risk management lessons learned
Hear more on calculation of depreciation in Excel from a Technology Q&A author, and hear from a risk management expert on what organizations have learned in the past year.
Excel depreciation methods, part 1
Kelly L. Williams, CPA, Ph.D., explains four depreciation functions, which have three required arguments in common: cost, salvage, and life.
Excel depreciation methods, part 2
Kelly L. Williams, CPA, Ph.D., explains four more depreciation methods and offers two examples.
8 ways to calculate depreciation in Excel
The first section explains straight-line, sum-of-years’ digits, declining-balance, and double-declining-balance depreciation. The second section covers the remaining depreciation methods.
See descriptive statistics in Excel
Learn how to use Excel to quickly calculate basic descriptive statistics for a dataset, including mean, standard deviation, minimums, and maximums.
Add the Data Analysis ToolPak to Excel
Excel’s Data Analysis ToolPak allows you to perform many advanced data analytics functions. Here’s how to enable it.
Various ways to display formulas in Excel
There are a number of different ways that you can display formulas in Excel. This can be useful when investigating why a certain formula isn’t working correctly or when grading your students’ worksheets to ensure they are using formulas correctly.
Searching within Excel comments
You can search for text that is contained within comments, hidden or unhidden, of an Excel spreadsheet.
A better way to save
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.
Discover more about your data with Ideas
Excel Ideas will analyze your dataset and give you recommendations, or ideas, for charts, PivotTables, and PivotCharts that work with your dataset.
Spend less time on repetitive tasks with Excel macros
Make mundane tasks easier by harnessing the power of automation.
Create your own Excel template
You can make templates in Excel for all sorts of preferred “defaults.”
