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How to Password Protect an Excel File

Password protect an Excel file

Beginning of the Month Function in Excel

Yesterday Ting Liu, Finance Lead at Zayo Bandwidth, asked if Excel had a function to calculate the first day of the month.  Great question …
A prior post showed how to use the EOMONTH function.  EOMONTH returns the last day of the month.
You can also use EOMONTH, to calculate the first day of the month.

=EOMONTH(A1,-1)+1
In the […]

Convert a Number with Currency in Excel into a Spelled/Written Word for use in Mail Merge

Convert a Number with Currency in Excel into a Spelled/Written Word for use in Mail Merge

Manage and Delete Multiple Names in Excel Workbooks

Manage Names in Excel.

Two Macros to Help with Named Ranges in Excel

Two Macros to Help with Named Ranges in Excel

Timesaving Tip for Linking to Pivot Tables

Rachelle Haid is a valued member of Zayo Bandwidth’s team. She is an Excel wiz and has the following tip for linking to Pivot tables, without having a strange pivot table named range show up in your formula:
Linking to a cell in pivot table so you don’t get the get pivot in your cell, check […]

Rachelle’s Excel tip - Date Arithmetic

Step by Step instructions on how to manipulate dates in Excel.

Fix Stretchy Pictures or Logos in Microsoft Excel

Fix stretchy pictures in Microsoft Excel.

Sorting in any order you want, not alphabetical or numerical

Have you ever needed to sort a list in a certain order vs. alphabetical or numerical?  Believe it or not, you can do this in Excel … you just need to create a custom list first.
For this example, I want to sort my regions in the below order vs. alphabetical:

Step 1 is to create a […]

Count unique data in a range, exclude duplicates in Microsoft Excel

Formula to count unique data in a list in Microsoft Excel