April 22, 2024 - by Bill Jelen
Every day, your IT department sends you a file with the columns in the wrong sequence. It would take them two minutes to change the query, but they have a six-month backlog, so you are stuck rearranging the columns every day.
You can reorder the columns with a left-to-right sort.
Add a new row above the data. Type numbers to represent the correct sequence for the columns.
Excel 2024: Sort East, Central, and West Using a Custom List »
April 19, 2024 - by Bill Jelen
At my last day job, we had three sales regions: East, Central, and West. The company headquarters was in the East, and so the rule was that all reports were sorted with the East region first, then Central, then West. Well, there is no way to do this with a normal sort.
Excel 2024: Set Up Your Data for Data Analysis »
April 17, 2024 - by Bill Jelen
Make sure to follow these rules when you set up your data for sorting, subtotals, filtering and pivot tables.
Excel 2024: Place Pictures In Cell From Local Computer »
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For the last 30 years, you could use Insert, Picture in Excel. The image was added to a special drawing layer that floated above the grid. In June of 2023, that legacy experience became known as Place Over Cells. The new experience is to Place In Cell.
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