50 things you didn't know Excel can DO 💡

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Here are the 50 things you didn't know Excel can do.
0:00 - 50 Advanced Excel Tips & Tricks
0:34 - Duplicate file quickly
0:54 - Adding buttons to QAT
1:31 - Move QAT below
1:40 - Make your own list in Excel
2:39 - GPS in Excel
3:12 - Clipboard Tool
3:50 - Pin files to quickly access them
4:13 - Excel defaults to one sheet
4:45 - Change Excel color
5:14 - One shortcut to rule them all
5:53 - Top 10 filter
6:08 - Sort by more than one column
6:43 - Screenshots / screencaps in Excel
7:44 - Hide things with ;;;
8:34 - Rotate text in cells
8:49 - Select just numbers
9:22 - New line in a cell
9:42 - Find and highlight all matching values in one go
10:37 - Navigator (birds eye view of Excel workbook)
11:31 - Data from picture
12:52 - TAKE function (Excel 365)
13:32 - Edit formula ranges quickly
14:07 - Move help text away
14:19 - Unique function (Excel 365)
14:50 - Image in cell (Excel 365)
16:32 - Formulatext function
16:50 - Debug formulas with F9
17:26 - Formula result tooltip (Excel 365)
17:40 - Reverse formula with goalseek
18:26 - Excel.new for new files
19:07 - Recommended pivots
19:27 - Move pivot fields / row labels
19:40 - Hide the + buttons in pivot tables
19:54 - Multiple pivots with one click
20:30 - Slice those pivots
20:53 - Sort pivot table field list
21:12 - Distinct count in pivots
21:41 - Median in Pivots (with DAX)
22:25 - Set your own Pivot Table defaults
23:10 - Hide items in chart easily
23:33 - Filters & charts
24:02 - Dynamic chart titles
24:32 - Emoji 😍😅😻 in Charts
25:04 - Tiny charts with sparklines
26:09 - Images in charts 🖼
26:49 - Negative values in a different color chart
27:38 - Combo charts
28:16 - Adjust chart range with mouse
28:54 - Recommended charts
29:26 - 50 is a lot!!!
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Why can't Excel ever marry?
It is waiting for the exact MATCH() 🤣

[@SanjuShresthaSsanjy]

Great tips Chandoo... I've one to share. At 10:16 we can tick "Match entire cell contents" option in the search box to limit our search to 600 or whatever value we want 😉

[@chandoo_]

That is a great suggestion. It occurred to me only after I finished the recording. 😀

[@markus_aurelius_888]

Good call👍

[@periwinkletinkle7371]

​@@chandoo_what was the difference between count and distinct count? Thank you :)

[@rtshort]

@@periwinkletinkle7371Count will count every instance added together. Distinct Count only counts things 1 time.

[@sairasiddiqua3083]

😅😂😂😅😅

[@beexcellent8428]

Wow, that was powerful! I thought I was a geek in Excel, but I am humbled with this tutorial. That was eye opening!

[@senpai.5517]

Thank you, Chandoo! I learnt a lot from your video today, as usual, and each time I watch one of your videos, I am reminded about how little I know about these Excel tricks. Looking forward to more of these.👏

[@Learning_to_Excel]

Love the video Chandoo! Particularly like the part about the Invert if Negative function, it's a great tool for improving the optics of you Excel Bar Chart!

[@jinwang562]

The Median function in Pivot table is very helpful, of course along with other tips; thank you!

[@kimbralenkaregina]

Mind blown ! Thank you for all those tips ! You made this video so fun that my colleagues sitting next beside me in the bus is starting to think I’m bizarre smiling over an excel sheet

[@SanjayGore]

To watch your videos on excel have been a wonderful experience always. The way you explain the ideas is awesome. I never feel that I am learning instead it is always an entertainment without losing the aspect of learning. Great work indeed.

[@Spreadsheets_Plus]

Thanks Chandoo. I really love this especially the custom sort function

[@user-qf2on8vv3l]

You have really added value to my life with theses great knowledge acquired from from various teachings. God bless you.

[@gregofthelake]

OMG! Tip 31 getting data from pictures is going to be such a time saver for me. I get so many e-mails with screenshots of data I have to put into Excel to work with. I didn't know this trick. Thanks for saving a bit of my sanity.

[@lakshmikanth9615]

Thank you @chandoo your tricks are super helpful❤

[@taizoondean689]

Thank you 🙏 sir .... sincerely appreciated 🙏.God bless you 😊

[@TwinAna]

Great! Thank you so much! You are Blessed to Bless Others to "Become Awesome!"🤗🙏

[@rajendrasalvi6197]

Amazing and Helpful ❤

[@alexrosen8762]

Excellent and a very useful tutorial 👌

[@unnikrishnansanthosh]

superb one, thanks for sharing

[@MuraliAnanthakrishnan]

Loved the "Like" and "Subscribe" pitch 🙂

[@realaccount2000]

Great video, man! I found this to be very helpful!

[@vipuljhaveri3884]

u r amzing like videos inside making learning a real joy thanks a lot for sharing your brilliance with all of us chandoo ji

[@yohannaagbanaji8012]

Awesome Mr Chandoo! But can you attached this data set for easy practice pls? It's beautiful presentation.

[@deepakcitm]

Good examples and excel tricks 😊

[@Azhar_Khan383]

Amazing,mind blowing, excellent, awesome. Thanks Sir

[@chrism9037]

Very useful Chandoo, this was great!

[@kirant96]

Thank you chandoo sir. Well spent half an hour.😀

[@sohailarshad426]

thank you Sir , your easy and clear style makes it a pleasure to learn . I have a problem , I have Office 2021 , but could not locate Navigation pane in it , yes its not there in either the View tab or in any tab .. if its hidden somewhere ..can you help locate it ... again I have office 2021

[@iqtidarh]

Thanks Chandoo. I work on a lot of data and charts for reporting and I particularly liked that we can insert images and emojis in charts. Thank you.

[@YashKapta]

Thanks a lot Chandoo! So many years of your help has made me good with Excel.

[@chandoo_]

You are most welcome

[@yhharishadyar7843]

Very useful video thanks sir

[@rajgorantla6577]

Simple superb your video's more helpful and easy to understand, thanks

[@mallilkarjunyolabhavi9736]

It was a very interesting one, I loved it🎉

[@ExcelWithChris]

At your 6:40 you do a sub-sort. I discovered the other day if you do it from the right to the left, you can just click in your Sales column and click AtoZ and then click in the Sales Person column and click AtoZ. For some or other reason if you do it from the left, the one sort just replaces the previous, but in reverse, no need for the Sort Button and adding levels!!

[@mramsch]

Well, sorting with multiple levels can always be done manually by sorting column by column in reverse order from the last to the first criterion, as the sorting in Excel always retains the current order of the other columns. So for example if you have columns Name County Age, if you want a sorted list of all counties and all persons of a county sorted by age (and then persons of same age should be in alphabetical order), sorting level 1 is County, sorting level 2 is Age, sorting level 3 is Name. Manually you can do that by 1st sorting column Name, then sort column Age, the sort column County (i.e. in reverse order of sorting level). Advantage of using the sort button and multiple levels is, that (e.g. after adding more data records) you can repeat this multi-level-sort with a single click on the (Filter) Reapply button: it also does repeat the sorting!

[@sf9530]

Excellent video. I've learned so much from it. I didn't know about the formulatext function. I always have trouble when I try to copy a formula and make it a text format. The formulatext function works great. Thanks.✅

[@chandoo_]

Glad it was helpful!

[@chrisouellet2832]

Chandoo - I've always landed on your solutions for complex Excel tricks... you are one of the best! I should of hit that Subscribed a long time ago! -Done!

[@SRCOMPUTEREDUCATION]

Your videos are always awesome

[@Gorman-84]

GPS! Very funny. Great video as usual. Thank you. Loved the photo of you and Leila together at some conference.

[@chandoo_]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@jesuscepedasantana2480]

Eres genial, saludos desde Venezuela

[@user-gd7wl2ix8t]

These are all great tips. I need this is written format for reference.

[@kacperbardecki3671]

Learned a lot, thank you!

[@markus_aurelius_888]

I love when we go back to basics, it's the stuff which is v important and often forgotten

[@chandoo_]

😍 Thank you.

[@vinodlakshmanan3869]

Thanks for making this video GOAT 😎😎😎

[@besttek109]

Those were useful tricks, i appreciate.

[@techkdeva8587]

Very Nice video, and very useful 🥰

[@DataAnalyticsFor21stcent-ik1dk]

Thank you, my teacher. I have learnt a lots under your tutelage

[@ShayanAsim]

Chandoo, I enjoy your videos and I have subscribed too! Also, sending this video to my brother who might find loads of these things useful too.

[@arvindr2101]

Happy Independence day. A Independence day gift; that was Superb, Racy and Very useful. Encapsulating features of Excel. Spending time after hectic months since April with year close and 1st Qtr Reporting; will catchup with your videos during the last couple of months. Many thanks to you sir.

[@chandoo_]

Happy Independance Day to you Arvind. I had lots of fun making this video and wanted it to be released on a special occasion.

[@shark52277]

Chandoo is still the best!

[@ferdinandfernandez4939]

I'm subscriber, thanks for your lecture, it helps me to update my skills in excel with the updated new commands

[@frachiar4444]

About 39 (sort multiple key) I suggest a faster way: sort on reverse order. E.g. to order by Person and Sales, just order by Sales THEN by Person.

[@BRIGHTONWAMBURA]

And finally i recognize that your a really Chandoo

[@sairamadaboina8257]

Thank you sir, you're explanation was good, please upload more and more videos of trending courses.

[@ksvikas5]

your trick worked and now i m your subscriber 😅

[@jalaluddin8276]

Hi! Chandoo. Have been watcing your vidoes for quite sometime. I saw your funtions and formulae keenly as it gives me good understanding and learning from a good teacher. I was myself a teacher so I respect you very much. I am sruck here because my office 365 (purchased recently) does not possess the formulae such as ChooseCosl() nor Take(). what should i do. can you please help. Thanks a lot.

[@yashrsingh]

Thank you for sharing this video

[@danielleshelbourne220]

Oh WOW, #41 is sensational too! 🤩

[@keithmason1485]

The Alt key shortcut is something that I'm always confused as to why nobody does this in their Excel videos. After you use it a few times it becomes really easy to use and get things done quickly.

[@T5AGamerz]

Alt a + v + v use this for data validation

[@excel4acc]

Many thanks for these tricks

[@armaangudboi5064]

Sir thanks for this video I have learnd so many things thankyou 🎉

[@jalaluddin8276]

point no 37: Make data Invisible -- (format/custom/ insert even only one semicolon ; ) can work

[@chandoo_]

Great suggestion. With one semicolon, any text values will still show. With ;;; Excel will hide everything.

[@m.ssharma535]

Hi Chandoo. First question after binge watching your videos over the weekend. Please take a look. I have developed a stock value calculator that has 6000 stocks. I have 6 methods and created a dashboard for summary. But I want to get the results for 40 stocks (can get ticker in text file) and it should be printed to another excel tab or PDF. I can just print one row or two rows of summary for each ticket (no need of fancy dashboard). Meaning -I need to run the excel dashboard (or file) repeatedly 40 times (40 stock tickers with 2 inputs -ticker and market price) and get the valuation summary. What is the trick to do ? Kindly suggest a method. I think I can do this in Python by accessing Excel repeatedly. But do not want to go there yet. How do do in excel is the question.

[@chandoo_]

Thanks for the love. You can use VBA for this sort of thing. Just maintain the 40 ticker codes in a list and set one at a time to the input cell using VBA loop. Then copy the portion you want to another file. When done, save the new file as PDF.

[@infaziqbal44]

Great video Chandoo!

[@vetonzeqiri]

This dude is the god,u earned a sub!

[@danielleshelbourne220]

We have a winner! #22 🏆 👏 🥂 🍾

[@coolbreeze1913]

Chandoo is very smart!

[@PrinceDziwornu]

Just subscribed to your channel.

[@bijaytanty8434]

Thanks 👍👍👍👍

[@thinkerboom8465]

How to do add calculate pivot table using formula sumproduct?

[@danielleshelbourne220]

OMG #45 is awesome! 🎉

[@preetshah3793]

Sir make a video on how to pick a chart according to data.

[@Jeevaji14]

Chandoo is the best in the business ❤❤❤

[@surojeetdey57]

Thank you sir for sharing such informative tricks in Excel, Your videos helped me a lot, I created projects in Excel and mysql, but I can't showcase my skills on LinkedIn, I struggled to create portfolio of my projects, sir if you guide us to create effective portfolio and suggest some tools and websites then it would be great full for me and other folks as well who can't create portfolio as like me. Sir, with all due respect, can you create a dedicated video on this topic? Thank you Signnigoff.

[@amalagovindasamy7233]

Happy Independence day. Its very useful one.

[@Andi-sj7po]

About tips 33 : if you check box on match case it will only select 600 values

[@vaijayantigulve4883]

Subscribed....!! 😀 I thought I knew excel very well....!!!

[@vidhiagrawal3746]

Hi chandoo I am a chartered accountant by profession. I love your videos and had learnt so much from your channel. But nowadays thanks to AI i had lost all the interest on learning new skills and has fall into a pit hole where everyday all I think of is I will lose my job soon. With so many course's out there and so much of misinformation, it would be great if you can come out with a course for people like us.

[@chandoo_]

Thanks Vidhi for your comments. I know this can be concerning but AI still has a long way to go. So, focus on things you can control and enjoy most. I do have a few videos on how to harness AI to do your work well. As the technology evolves I will add more information and resources on this. Stay calm my friend.

[@gurvindersingharora5301]

Sir, How can we present L6M, Ly3M, Fiscal Year, Mat, l2M FY Sales in pivot table in excel report. I have an interview scheduled on 24 August. Please Make a Video of this! I need your help!

[@user-pz6yz5eg1c]

hey Chandoo Thanks For this awesome video, I have one question in the paste function (Clipboard tool, 3:15 min ) I am facing a problem here I have a lot of columns that I need to copy as you copied particular chocolate here the same way, but the problem is that the clipboard only takes 24 values and my column name count is 49 so how can I do that

[@surajbhardwaj428]

Hi Sir your 50 Excel Tips is Amazing... But I have Subscribed your Channel and comes under the 24% subscriber list..😀😀

[@DhawalGNandedkar]

Sir, 14:55 image in cell feature is not available in Excel 365 yet.

[@chandoo_]

This is in the "Beta" version as of now and will be available in public versions very soon.

[@joseescobar9031]

🤓Thanks Chandoo

[@vv9730]

NICE...1:50..ANY OPTION TO SHOW CURRECTLY AVAILABLE CUSTOMS LISTS INSTEAD OF EVEN TYPING FIRST FEW ITEMS,SO THAT ONE MAY READILY CHOOSE AMONGST THE LISTS OPTIONS...??

[@gijapi]

this is really great/ On a lighter note, remembering all the 50 and recollecting the right one at the right time is a challenge 🙂

[@chandoo_]

Thank you. Of course, that is why you can rewatch the video sometime later to cement the ideas.

[@deborahkris3746]

This is really amazing

[@jonasoliveira9366]

Please do one like this for Power Query!

[@yashrsingh]

For 18th trick we can type the name in top cell or copy the name in top cell. It help to create list in multiple row scenario.

[@nagarajuvamaraju9146]

Awsomw Chandoo ji.

[@augustodemattos]

Amazing!!! Thank you so much!!! You definitely made our lives easier!!! #excellovers

[@webhaskar2635]

Gr8 change in your presentation Sir. I liked it so much as it's engaging till the end of Video !! Thanks🤝

[@foodcity9875]

You always Amazing ❤

[@user-pz6yz5eg1c]

hey Chandoo Thanks For this awesome video, I have one question in the paste function (Clipboard tool, 3:15 min ) I am facing a problem here I have a lot of columns that I need to copy as you copied particular chocolate here the same way, but the problem is that the clipboard only takes 24 values and my column name count is 49 so how can I do that hey candoo can you plz explain how we can increase clipboard copy count , it only copied 24 value ???

[@murtuzalal]

I would like to know if I get a bank statement in excel with 2 to 3 rows with 1 amount in Debit or Credit how to bring in 1 row.

[@mahmoudmohsen8105]

NOOOOOOOOOOICE , Love it !

[@alializadeh8195]

Thanks

[@himanshushekhar4332]

Nice

[@techteam-pl6lj]

thank you chandu anna

[@indian35556]

Great

[@sufimudi4524]

To see report by country- if the show report filter pages are not active, how we can fix it?

[@anonymousperson4363]

I have tried several versions of Excel LTSC 2021, regular 2021, and 365. Neither have the picture in a cell option.

[@chandoo_]

The picture in cell is a "Beta" feature and will be available for all in Excel 365 soon.

[@gayathriRY]

Hi Chandoo, I'm also from NZ, currently I'm working in accounting department for 2 years now in NZ, I have 12 years experience in India, interested in Data Analyst, and I have intermediate to advanced excel skills. Could you please guide me how to move further, everywhere asking for experienced data analyst, do I need to do any courses to get data analyst job. Please reply

[@vibhorsharma9930]

Excel is sooo vast 😮

[@soumyail6397]

Sir how to extract desired month from date table....which contains all the months and if I want only 8th month with all its dates means how to get sir

[@chandoo_]

You can use FILTER function to do this. Assuming your dates are in A1:A365, you can say =FILTER(A1:A365, MONTH(A1:A365)=8) will filter all August values (in any year).