Wow! I spent half the night watching your channel. Highly recommend that even advanced users watch your tutorials. I've been using Excel for 25 years and love it. I knew many of your tips already but it was so worth watching anyway. The new functions I learnt will save me many hours.
Great content, some I knew, some I did not, but it's always great to see things from another perspective. Watching this tutotial was totally worth it. Thank you!
Wow, as someone who is quite advanced already I can definitely say that this contains almost all advanced tips I would like people to know, plus a few more I didn't completely know yet. Well done!
Vielen Dank für ein riesige Information für Microsoft Excel, die Zusammenfassung ist voll gelungen. Ob es jede so korrekt schaffen wird, fraglich. Sehr Hilfreich! Respekt!
Hi John.. great list.. a real workout. One thing to note.. I don't think you need to use INDIRECT on a Data Validation list with the Source referencing a formal EXCEL table. Even though you can't reference the table name itself in the Source field and instead must highlight the actual range address of the table, when subsequently adding data to the table, the range address automatically expands within the Data Validation Source definition. So, no INDIRECT reference to the table name is needed. If data is in a list but not an EXCEL table, then INDIRECT or OFFSET or INDEX can all be used to make it dynamic in conjunction with a Named Range. Just thought I would mention it, as I discovered this feature one day which is a time saver. Thanks for all the excellent tips and tricks.. great stuff! Thumbs up!!
Hmm, I didn't know that about using a regular range reference. I just assumed it wouldn't grow with the table. Will have to try it out. Indirect will have the problem of needing to change the data validation if you ever change the table name, so regular reference might be better.
@@HowToExcelBlog Hi John.. for a list not in an EXCEL table, my go to method is either: =OFFSET($B$3,,,COUNTA($B$3:$B$20)) which is volatile, but can be entered directly into the Source field of the Data Validation definition or =$B$3:INDEX($B$3:$B$20,COUNTA($B$3:$B$20)) which is not volatile but requires giving a range name to use in Data Validation Source. In both cases, I defined a range down to B20 to give myself room for the list to grow. I'm sure you know these.. just using this as an excuse to practice them again and share my results. Thanks again for all the great insights and inspiration to learn. Thumbs up!
Data Validation :Select the column in your data entry table that you wish to add data validation to. Go to Data/Data Validation or Alt + D + L to open the Data Validation window. Select “List” from the “Allow” dropdown menu. Hit the F3 key and select your defined name from the “Paste Name” box .Now every cell in the column will contain data validation that is restricted to the values in the “Data Validation List” column. If you add another row to the Data Validation table, this will automatically appear in the drop down menus you have just created
@@HowToExcelBlog Yes, I rewound in one or two places. I'm not saying that you went too fast. You were great! I'm saying it was an even more enjoyable ride at 2x. Thank you!
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Love the content of this video and your way of teaching! Thanks for the video which gave me inspiration for my own classes (I give basic Excel training to students) 😊
OMG! Just the Ideas tip was worth the time to watch this video! I had noticed the Idea button but I'm in the process of designing an executive dashboard (using the functions I already know) and was too focused on that to try out something new. Voila! Ideas will auto create a few of the charts I had planned. But the best thing Ideas did was present 35 options but most were not useful because of the way my data was structured. So rather than spend my time creating pivot tables and charts, I reorganized my data and let Ideas create the charts.
Amazing video I think Excel has the option to distinct in pivots - if you added to Data model before excuting, as far as i remember it was in the value calculation when you click in the values section.
Hello, John. I've been using pivot tables and viewing numerous relevant YT videos a lot recently, but I did pick up something new just now - your final tip about adding two tables to a data model and using both tables in the pivot table. Nice - thank you! 🦾
Thank you so much for the video! Very well explained with crystal clear instructions. I would like to ask on Hide and Unhide feature in Excel. Do you know if there is any hotkey available or an easier way to Unhide all hidden columns and rows at the same time?
These are great tips, but for the first tip: isn't it too complicated for adding a file in a sheet in a workbook? For what purpose would you use it this way? Thank you!
@@HowToExcelBlog thanks a lot for replying to my message. Subscribing to your channel is really valuable. Keep up the good work and Thanks a lot again.
Excel has many different versions. It will be a good practice to mention which Excel version is the video talking about. Maybe for most part, they are common for different versions and this is good, but there are issues which differ from one version to another and this confuses the user. In this particular video and first tip, I am using 2013 version and I don't have "from folder" option. Also different options in "From other sources" are very strange for me and I couldn't understand them. I should search in Internet for their meaning and usage.
Your classes are great! i love it. Is there a way to filter between times? Say for instance, I have a courier team who drives medical supplies back and forth all day. So we have 1st shift, 2nd shift, 3rd shift, overnight and weekend shift. I have 6 months worth of data and i was trying to see overnight shift only. So i wanted to filter it to where i only see routes picking up items from 10:30pm to 7:00am. Is this possible? do you have a tutorial on how to do that if it is possible? Please advise. :)
Hi John. Well done, long and comprehensive video. Is it planned in future touch more power pivot, dax, and data modeling? Thanks for sharing You knowledge?
Thank you for this lesson, really useful tips! I am really interested in advanced filter, I used it some time ago, but the biggest problem is that you can't make it adjusted for end user, as you you have table with some parameters above the table, every time you changed the data you applied filter by yourself. Do you know is it possible to auto-filter cells based on filled in data?
Hello thank you for your nice tips! very interesting! but I have an issue on the first tips about Getting data from folders, when I remove one excel files I can not refresh anymore my table. Do you have any tips? thank you
Nice demonstration, but I want to add that the new functions are also available on Microsoft's web based version of Excel, so there is no need for Office 365 if anyone wants to casually try these out.
Fabulous tutorial! Loved every bit of it. Thank you so much! Just a tiny question: How did you get the yellow circle around the curser? Again many thanks!!
thanks for the great video. i have one little problem though: i want to add columns to my queried table, but as soon as new data is added to the table, the data from the new columns loses its reference. is there a ways to keep the data in the right place when new data is added?
for text to columns, if you don't close the current workbook and open a new spreadsheet - and try to paste something that has the delimiter, then it will automatically apply text to columns. Only way to stop this is to close all excel projects and re-open them and apply text to columns to your second project. This always caused me issues in dealing with different daily banking reports.
@@HowToExcelBlog Oh-no, I've only just started learning macros. I learnt T2C out of necessity, learnt that before Vlookup, and still haven't used index match. do I need any downloads or extra tools to start power queries or is it just another built-in maze to lose myself in?
It's built in from Excel 2016 onward. Go to data tab and if you have a section called get & transform then you have it. Otherwise there is an add-in for 2010 and 2010 (but seriously its time to upgrade to Excel for Microsoft 365 at that point).
First tip to get Data would be huge for me. Now how do you get the data from a folder with sub folders? I've tried to do so, and I get an error of [Expression.Error] The key didn't match any rows in the table. If I pull from each individual folder, I don't get this error, is there a work around?
Excellent Video, however, I could not find a way to enable the Idea Button. I went in options and enabled it there but it did not work. The same apllies to rich data! Somene knows how to enable these buttons?
@@HowToExcelBlog yes! Everything is fine. I have asked help for It department. I was browsing for an answer and I suspect it is caused by my firewall. However, I'm not sure.
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Have watched at minimum 20 Excel videos and this one is by far the best! Thank you
Wow! I spent half the night watching your channel. Highly recommend that even advanced users watch your tutorials. I've been using Excel for 25 years and love it. I knew many of your tips already but it was so worth watching anyway. The new functions I learnt will save me many hours.
Thanks Terry. There's always something to learn in Excel! I'm still learning too!
Short and to the point. Thank you, John.
Hands down the best excel video I've seen so far.
...but you've only seen one Excel video ever 😂
Thanks!
Las Vegas, NV, USA: This was so awesome! Thorough, clear, concise, fast-moving but really easy to follow. Outstanding! Thank you so much!
Thanks!
Great content, some I knew, some I did not, but it's always great to see things from another perspective. Watching this tutotial was totally worth it. Thank you!
I discovered your channel yesterday and am loving it. As an advanced Excel and Power BI user, your channel is amazing for incremental learning.
Thanks! Glad to hear you are enjoying the channel!
Wow, as someone who is quite advanced already I can definitely say that this contains almost all advanced tips I would like people to know, plus a few more I didn't completely know yet. Well done!
Thanks! Glad you gained a few tips out of it.
Please keep uploading more videos. You are a champion !!
Will do!
Its fantastic learning. Way of teaching is outstanding
Thanks for the kind words!
Awesome. Very clear and straight to the point.
Glad you enjoyed it Fadi.
Loved the DAX part. Awesome trick. Thank You!!
Dax is great and you can use the same dax formulas in power BI!
Excellent tutorial! Definitely recommended for learning Advanced Excel.
Thanks!
I had a quick view, paused your video, and have referenced it 4 times today in practical work, thanks!
Good to hear! Hopefully you saved some time and effort with your work with the new techniques!
Awesome video and great tips summarized for every level of Excel users! Thank you!!
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Vielen Dank für ein riesige Information für Microsoft Excel, die Zusammenfassung ist voll gelungen. Ob es jede so korrekt schaffen wird, fraglich. Sehr Hilfreich! Respekt!
Hi John.. great list.. a real workout. One thing to note.. I don't think you need to use INDIRECT on a Data Validation list with the Source referencing a formal EXCEL table. Even though you can't reference the table name itself in the Source field and instead must highlight the actual range address of the table, when subsequently adding data to the table, the range address automatically expands within the Data Validation Source definition. So, no INDIRECT reference to the table name is needed. If data is in a list but not an EXCEL table, then INDIRECT or OFFSET or INDEX can all be used to make it dynamic in conjunction with a Named Range. Just thought I would mention it, as I discovered this feature one day which is a time saver. Thanks for all the excellent tips and tricks.. great stuff! Thumbs up!!
Hmm, I didn't know that about using a regular range reference. I just assumed it wouldn't grow with the table. Will have to try it out.
Indirect will have the problem of needing to change the data validation if you ever change the table name, so regular reference might be better.
@@HowToExcelBlog Hi John.. for a list not in an EXCEL table, my go to method is either: =OFFSET($B$3,,,COUNTA($B$3:$B$20)) which is volatile, but can be entered directly into the Source field of the Data Validation definition or =$B$3:INDEX($B$3:$B$20,COUNTA($B$3:$B$20)) which is not volatile but requires giving a range name to use in Data Validation Source. In both cases, I defined a range down to B20 to give myself room for the list to grow. I'm sure you know these.. just using this as an excuse to practice them again and share my results. Thanks again for all the great insights and inspiration to learn. Thumbs up!
Data Validation :Select the column in your data entry table that you wish to add data validation to. Go to Data/Data Validation or Alt + D + L to open the Data Validation window. Select “List” from the “Allow” dropdown menu.
Hit the F3 key and select your defined name from the “Paste Name” box .Now every cell in the column will contain data validation that is restricted to the values in the “Data Validation List” column. If you add another row to the Data Validation table, this will automatically appear in the drop down menus you have just created
Wow! What a great summary of features. At 2x speed, you have to pay attention to what's happening! Thank you!
You can always rewind 🙂
@@HowToExcelBlog Yes, I rewound in one or two places. I'm not saying that you went too fast. You were great! I'm saying it was an even more enjoyable ride at 2x. Thank you!
This was very useful and practical tips, thank you
Thanks John! We do a lot of budget and financial analysis. Any videos with examples on budget and financial analysis?
Can`t thank you enough for these tips and tricks. They surely help saving a shit lots of time.
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Man a million likes to you! This video is a treaure trove!!!
Thanks 😄
Thank you so much for doing these videos, you are a legend.
Thanks 👍
What a wonderful and pleasant way to spend a few minutes learning a great deal about Excel. Many thanks for a job well done.
Thanks Warren. Glad you enjoyed it!
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Amazingly presented. Very well explained.
Thanks!
Very amazing and updated tutorial which is easy to follow. Thank you very much.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Love the content of this video and your way of teaching! Thanks for the video which gave me inspiration for my own classes (I give basic Excel training to students) 😊
Thanks for sharing such a valuable information.
OMG! Just the Ideas tip was worth the time to watch this video! I had noticed the Idea button but I'm in the process of designing an executive dashboard (using the functions I already know) and was too focused on that to try out something new. Voila! Ideas will auto create a few of the charts I had planned. But the best thing Ideas did was present 35 options but most were not useful because of the way my data was structured. So rather than spend my time creating pivot tables and charts, I reorganized my data and let Ideas create the charts.
Yes, reformat data with power query. Proper data is key to building a great dashboard.
This is just great! Thank you so much! It'll really help me unpack Power Query which is just a bit dense for the new initiate :)
Great video. Useful tips. Thanks
You're welcome!
Thank you for this video! It was very helpful
Excellent Video... Thank you.
Welcome!
Amazing video
I think Excel has the option to distinct in pivots - if you added to Data model before excuting, as far as i remember it was in the value calculation when you click in the values section.
Very clear! Awesome tips & tricks, thank you!
You're welcome Juan!
Beautiful video.
Very helpful video.
Wow.. some great tips and explained well! I learned a lot. Super video.. thank you :)
You're welcome Janis! Glad you learned some new things.
Hello, John. I've been using pivot tables and viewing numerous relevant YT videos a lot recently, but I did pick up something new just now - your final tip about adding two tables to a data model and using both tables in the pivot table. Nice - thank you! 🦾
Thank you so much for the video! Very well explained with crystal clear instructions. I would like to ask on Hide and Unhide feature in Excel. Do you know if there is any hotkey available or an easier way to Unhide all hidden columns and rows at the same time?
It's super helpful.Thanks
very useful tutorial, Thank you
Glad you think so!
great video! very insightful
Thank you Sir!
Good stuff. Thank you.
These are great tips, but for the first tip: isn't it too complicated for adding a file in a sheet in a workbook? For what purpose would you use it this way? Thank you!
Adding a single file, yes! But combining data from hundreds of files, it will be the easiest way.
@@HowToExcelBlog thanks a lot for replying to my message. Subscribing to your channel is really valuable. Keep up the good work and Thanks a lot again.
Gosh - this is really quality stuff. Thank you.
Thanks! Those that spend the hour to watch will hopefully save hundreds of hours with the learnings!
Some Really Helpful Tips And Tricks Happy Days!Thank You John :):):)
clap!clap1clap! a very powerful presentation from an old salt
excellent material! thank you
Excel has many different versions. It will be a good practice to mention which Excel version is the video talking about. Maybe for most part, they are common for different versions and this is good, but there are issues which differ from one version to another and this confuses the user. In this particular video and first tip, I am using 2013 version and I don't have "from folder" option. Also different options in "From other sources" are very strange for me and I couldn't understand them. I should search in Internet for their meaning and usage.
I use Microsoft 365, so it's airways the most up to date version.
You are the best
Thanks 😊
Really nice tips. Thanks
Very nice!
Thanks!
Hello teacher, Great video
You're welcome 🙂
Really helpful!
Great to hear Yilia!
Thank you.
Welcome!
Great tips sir, continue the great contributions in the future.
Not to worry, that is the plan 😉
nice video, thanks
Your classes are great! i love it. Is there a way to filter between times? Say for instance, I have a courier team who drives medical supplies back and forth all day. So we have 1st shift, 2nd shift, 3rd shift, overnight and weekend shift. I have 6 months worth of data and i was trying to see overnight shift only. So i wanted to filter it to where i only see routes picking up items from 10:30pm to 7:00am. Is this possible? do you have a tutorial on how to do that if it is possible? Please advise. :)
You can create a column that calculates the shift, then filter on that.
Awesome! Thanks.
Unique effort... Thanks a lot
UNIQUE()
fabulous thanks
You're welcome Lamrana!
Hi John. Well done, long and comprehensive video. Is it planned in future touch more power pivot, dax, and data modeling? Thanks for sharing You knowledge?
Eventually, but hard to say when.
Great tips on excell
Thanks Gihan!
Very nice video
Thank you for this lesson, really useful tips! I am really interested in advanced filter, I used it some time ago, but the biggest problem is that you can't make it adjusted for end user, as you you have table with some parameters above the table, every time you changed the data you applied filter by yourself. Do you know is it possible to auto-filter cells based on filled in data?
Maybe you want to turn your data into a table then use a slicer to filter?
@@HowToExcelBlog thanks, yes if it is smart table it is a way, but I want to use flat table, anyway thanks!!!!
amazing, nice tutorial
Thank you very much it was very helpful , please to share that Datasheet
Thank u excellent glad i found u
I'm glad you found me too 🙂
Hello thank you for your nice tips! very interesting! but I have an issue on the first tips about Getting data from folders, when I remove one excel files I can not refresh anymore my table. Do you have any tips? thank you
Hi, I have a question: How can I create a dynamic pyramid chart that is horizontally and vertically segmented? In excel or power BI. Thanks a million.
Great, thank you!
No problem!
Nice demonstration, but I want to add that the new functions are also available on Microsoft's web based version of Excel, so there is no need for Office 365 if anyone wants to casually try these out.
Yes, that's true. Most people don't know Excel online is free too!
Valuable tips, thanks for the spreadsheet provided. Thank you John.
No problem Luciano!
where did you find its exercise sheet?
www.howtoexcel.org/downloads/
Thanks John for this useful compilation of knowledge 👍
No problem Luis!
Great video
Thanks!
Valuable tips, thank you.
👍🙂
Nice tutorial. Learned something. Kindly share the workbook. The link provided is broken.
Damn get data form folder so awesome. Thank you!
Power query in general is so awesome 💪 ⚡
@@HowToExcelBlog i load 200k rows by 10 colums into excel, forever. load same data set into PQ, boom.
Awesome👌
Thanks!
great tips
Thanks Rok!
Fabulous tutorial! Loved every bit of it. Thank you so much! Just a tiny question: How did you get the yellow circle around the curser? Again many thanks!!
It's an effect from the screen recorder I use called Camtasia.
Glad you enjoyed the video!
@@HowToExcelBlog Thank you very much. You are a real gent.
Excel lent ! Thank you; most helpful.
so fantastic
Thanks!
thanks for the great video. i have one little problem though: i want to add columns to my queried table, but as soon as new data is added to the table, the data from the new columns loses its reference. is there a ways to keep the data in the right place when new data is added?
Which to are you referring to?
for text to columns, if you don't close the current workbook and open a new spreadsheet - and try to paste something that has the delimiter, then it will automatically apply text to columns. Only way to stop this is to close all excel projects and re-open them and apply text to columns to your second project.
This always caused me issues in dealing with different daily banking reports.
Yes, this is one of those "smart" features 😒 I usually rerun the split with an obscure character to stop it.
Btw, you're probably better off building some power queries for transforming your daily report data.
@@HowToExcelBlog Oh-no, I've only just started learning macros. I learnt T2C out of necessity, learnt that before Vlookup, and still haven't used index match. do I need any downloads or extra tools to start power queries or is it just another built-in maze to lose myself in?
It's built in from Excel 2016 onward. Go to data tab and if you have a section called get & transform then you have it. Otherwise there is an add-in for 2010 and 2010 (but seriously its time to upgrade to Excel for Microsoft 365 at that point).
Super...Happy to see such good value addition knowledge on excel
Thanks Sachin!
Awesome! Thank you for putting this together! 👍
Good video
Thanks Mark!
Thanks sir
First tip to get Data would be huge for me. Now how do you get the data from a folder with sub folders? I've tried to do so, and I get an error of [Expression.Error] The key didn't match any rows in the table.
If I pull from each individual folder, I don't get this error, is there a work around?
Are the files the same structure across each subfolder?
Thank you for this lesson! Can you please tell me how to add my signature and graphics so that it appears automatically within my emails?
Which tip are you referring to?
can't seem to download workbook from link. Looks like a personal sharepoint account?
Excellent Video, however, I could not find a way to enable the Idea Button. I went in options and enabled it there but it did not work.
The same apllies to rich data!
Somene knows how to enable these buttons?
Are you on Excel for Microsoft 365?
@@HowToExcelBlog yes! Everything is fine. I have asked help for It department. I was browsing for an answer and I suspect it is caused by my firewall. However, I'm not sure.
I think ideas is a feature that can be disabled by IT since it sends your data to Microsoft and an organization might not want users to do that.
@@HowToExcelBlog maybe that. Thanks anyway
SIR, DOWNLOAD LINK GIVEN BY YOU FOR PRACTICE WORKSHEET TO FOLLOW ALONG IS NOT OPENING AND SHOWING ERROR 404. PLEASE SUGGEST
Thanks and i am using Excel 365, there are few formula that i would not fine such as sortby, filter?
may i know where i would get it
Eric
They are available in Office insiders. insider.office.com/en-us/
They might also be available in the monthly update version, though I'm not sure.
thank you
You're welcome Fathi 🙂
I've subscribed and downloaded all the other workbooks except for this one ?
Not sure what the question is 🤔