Excel Tricks with Tejraj

In this blog post we will learn to “Insert Comment in Excel”. To explain this topic we have prepared raw data where we are collecting information of few students. The information which we are collecting is: 1. Name of Student 2. Age 3. Gender 4. Date of Birth But there might be chance that if we share this excel sheet and ask each student to fill up their data by their own then the completed sheet may get mess us due to non-uniformity. This is one example how student may end up filling the data. There is no uniformity at all in this data. Some students have entered their gender with just initials while others have entered the full word. Same thing happened with DOB as the date format entered in last column of table is not uniform. To maintain the uniformity in the database we must provide some instructions about how to fill the information in this table. For this we can insert comments for the header cells (as shown in below image) which will provide instructions about how to fill up ...

In our previous blog post we have seen few options from "GoTo Special" dialog box in Excel (Click here to read about GoTo Special in Excel Part 1 ). In this blog post we will see remaining options. Column differences: This option will help us to select the cell values which are different that selected  cell  value in respective column. 1. We have listed few numbers in a column as shown in below image. Now we have selected entire range and the  cell  value which is selected in this cell range is from cell address “B2” (We can see the cell address in Name Box and value from this cell address in Formula Bar ). 2. Select option “Column differences” in “GoTo Special” dialog box and click on “OK” button. 3. As a result we can see that all the cell values which are different that cell value in cell “B2” will get selected. Precedents (Direct only, All levels): This option will help us to select the all the cells which are involved in the formula applied in currentl...

Previously we have learned about “ Find & Select Commands ” in excel ( Click here to read more on this). In that post we have already seen various methods to get “GoTo Special” dialog box. This “GoTo Special” dialog box will look like as shown in below image. We will learn how to use all the options which are available in this "Go To Special" dialog box. These options are: 1. Comments 2. Constants (Numbers, Text, Logicals, Errors) 3. Formulas (Numbers, Text, Logicals, Errors) 4. Blanks 5. Current region 6. Current Array 7. Objects 8. Row difference 9. Column differences 10. Precedents (Direct only, All levels) 11. Dependents (Direct only, All levels) 12. Last Cell 13. Visible cells only 14. Conditional Formats (All, Same) 15. Data Validation (All, Same) Comments: This option will help us to select all the comments from selected sheet. 1. Let’s say we have inserted few comments in our excel sheet as shown in below image. 2. Select option “Comments” in “GoTo Special” dialo...