Within a spreadsheet, comments are essential for adding context and explanations. You can use them to communicate critical information that might not fit straight into a cell. Sometimes, though, you might simply want to extract and transfer the comments from a few selected cells not the accompanying cell values to a different location. In this article, we'll look at a methodical process for successfully completing this work. By the end of this tutorial, you will have a firm grasp on how to efficiently extract and copy comments from Excel files, saving you time and effort. Let's get started ... Read More

You've come to the perfect place if you've ever needed to combine only particular worksheets from a large Excel workbook with other worksheets into a single, well-organized worksheet. Excel offers strong capabilities that make it possible for you to automate your data management and analysis operations. It is simpler to analyse and show your data efficiently when you combine a few worksheets to compile pertinent data from several sources and produce a consolidated perspective. You will be guided step-by-step through the process of merging particular worksheets into one during this tutorial. This technique will assist you in maintaining control over ... Read More

Excel is an effective tool for managing and analysing data, and keeping accuracy and preventing duplication can depend on your data only having unique values. Excel has a number of built-in tools and functions that can assist you in limiting entries to unique values only, regardless of whether you're dealing with a tiny dataset or a huge spreadsheet. By using these methods, you can improve data integrity, streamline your workflow, and gain critical time. You'll discover how to avoid duplicate entries in one column or across several columns, enabling you to preserve the accuracy of your data and get rid ... Read More

Powerful spreadsheet software like Excel provides a wide range of functions to help you manage and analyse your data. To ensure that positive or zero values are not accepted, you might want to limit the entry of numbers to just negative values in some circumstances. Enforcing this restriction can assist maintain data accuracy and prevent errors, whether you're working on financial modelling, budgeting, or any other scenario where negative numbers are necessary. You will learn how to configure Excel such that only negative numbers can be entered, restricting the entry of any positive or zero values, by carefully following the ... Read More

Sometimes to maintain the uniqueness of all values available in a workbook, we require to eliminate duplicate values from the dataset. A case of duplicity may arise when there are two columns having email addresses and you want to find the repeating ones in one of the columns. This can be achieved using the below steps. Comparing two columns of Email Addresses to Find the Same values using Formula Step 1: We have taken a sample data as following. Here we have taken two columns having some email addresses and a third column in which we will display ... Read More

In this article we will learn how to compare values of two columns to get the values from the third column. For example, we have taken a column with Class Names and along with each class name, student name has been written in another column. Now, we will get the students name in another column against some randomly taken class names. Let’s see how this can be achieved using an excel formula. Compare two columns and getting value from third column with VLOOKUP function Step 1: We have taken the following sample data for comparison. Step ... Read More

For instance, we have two columns in a data set having some names. And now we want to identify what names are repeating in either list. For this, we can apply a formula in two other columns, to get the unique values of both the columns. Let’s see how we can achieve this. Compare two columns and list differences with formulas Step 1: We have taken the following sample data for comparison. Step 2: Enter the formula in E2 cell as mentioned below. This formula will return the unique names of column 1, which are not ... Read More

When we have a bunch of data and need to compare rows and columns to maintain uniqueness then we might need to apply multiple formulas to the dataset. For instance you have two or more columns and want to compare the values of each row of all columns and return Yes or True of they get matched completely. This can be achieved using the below steps. Compare two cells of two columns and return yes if they are perfectly Matched using Formula Step 1: We have taken the following sample data with some random details. After comparing each ... Read More

Many times, we need to compare and identify the duplicate entries available in various columns of the excel data. Searching the duplicate entry of each value one by one is a tedious task. This can be achieved through a formula combination of excel sheet. Let’s see how the same can be achieved using the below steps. Compare alphanumeric values in two columns to find the same duplicates Step 1: We have taken the following sample data for comparison. Step 2: Enter the formula in C2 cell as mentioned below. This formula will return Duplicate for those ... Read More

In this article we will learn how to remove specific cell contents while opening or closing an excel workbook. This activity can be done through VBA codes that can be applied individually at a time. Either on closing the file or opening the file. This feature can be useful when you have performed some calculations or analysis at a specific range in the workbook and want the same to clear as soon as you close the file or open the file next time. Let’s see how the VBA code can be applied. Clear Specified Cell Contents on Workbook Open ... Read More