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I think VLOOKUP formula makes your day easier. however it depends what kind of data you working for or what do u want.
Following are the "favorite" & straightforward functions which make my life easy while doing work on Excel:
Ø Formatting As Fast As1 –2 –3 –4 –5 –6 –7 –8!
Ctrl + Shift + 1 Number format with2 decimal places
Ctrl + Shift + 2 Format as time
Ctrl + Shift + 3 Format as Date
Ctrl + Shift + 4 Format as currency value
Ctrl + Shift + 5 Format as percentage
Ctrl + Shift + 6 Format number in exponential form or scientific form
Ctrl + Shift + 7 Apply single line border to selection
Ctrl + Shift + 8 Make a selection of contiguous cells
Ø Navigate Through Different Worksheets And Workbooks:
Ctrl + PageUp To switch to next worksheets
Ctrl + PageDown To switch to previous worksheets
Ctrl + Tab To navigate through different workbooks
Ø Ctrl + ; Shortcut To Enter Todays Date
(You must select one of the cells within the range (within table) to correctly select the relevant table.)
Ø Detect All Cells Linked To a Formula:
What if you are new to a certain data and don’t know what is linked to what. Situation gets more complicated when one cell contains a formula that depends on data in many other cells. Things would become so easy to understand if you are able to know each and every cell on which a cell is directly or indirectly dependent. Well next short cut is just for this job!
Ø Toggle Between Cell Value And Formula:
Usually excel users have to double click the cell to view the formula and that only reveals formula in just one cell. Following shortcut reveals the formulas across the whole excel worksheet.
For a clean, smooth selection of cells but without using mouse:
How to use it:
Press F8 once and use direction keys to move the selection in the appropriate direction to select desired cells. You don’t have to hold down “Shift” key to do the selection. Once F8 is pressed and ‘Extend Selection” mode is active you can either use direction keys to make the selection or mouse to make or extend the selection.
Once F8 is pressed a notification of ‘Extend Selection’ can be seen in the bottom status bar of excel to let user know that extended selection mode is enabled. Pressing F8 again will disable ‘Extend Selection’ mode.
Ø Toggle Cell Reference / Repeat Last Action
Two uses are explained below at full length separately
With formula in edit mode, move cursor to any cell address and press F4 key. You will notice dollar sign ‘$’ appearing before row number and column letter. Pressing this will fix/define the cell reference in formula i.e. reference shall not be changed while dragging the formula in any direction.
If you are doing something on repetitive basis let it be a formula, pasting, formatting, underlining etc then instead of pushing key combination over and over again you can do it just by pressing F4 while in non-editing mode. For example if you have copied a certain value and want to paste it in several cells then you don’t have to click paste button with mouse or Ctrl + V again and again. Just press F4 and it will be pasted. F4 repeats the last action.
vlookup()
alt+(+) ie sum
etc....
doing alot of quations per sheet
i think sumifs is the most one i use
and it gives me great results
lol
Hi, considering you know the very basics of excel, the following excel formuals can make your day much much easier :-
1. Vlookup
2. Hlookup
3. Sumif
4. Sumifs
4. Count
5. Counta
6. Countif
7. Countifs
8. if
9. round
10. lower
11. upper
12. concatenate
There are many more, but i believe this solves most of our work. Take care.
Vlookup
Hlookup
Left
Right
Countif
if + sum
sumif
It entirely depends on the company and most important the field for which you work for.
Vlookup that certainly helps me in arranging and analyzing the data frequently.
