Excel Time-Savers - 5 Hidden Features for Busy People

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You'll learn 5 Excel features that are mega time-savers. Useful for beginners and advanced Excel users. All of these tips are easy to apply for any level. Here's what we cover:
1. Quick-Jump Excel Bookmarks: Navigating across a large workbook can be challenging. If only there were built-in bookmarks in Excel. There's a trick to achieve the same result, though: use the Name Box.
2. Analyze Data for instant insights: You need to quickly analyze an unfamiliar dataset? Why not outsource it to AI! There's an AI feature built into Excel that can do it for you. You'll find it on the Home tab, it's called Analyze Data. When you run it, it will auto-generate some ready-to-use insights in the form of pivot tables and pivot charts, or you can ask for something specific, like "give me 5 products with lowest customer ratings". It will interpret the question in data analyst terms and prepare a pivot table for you. You can then simply insert it into your report.
3. One-Click Forecasting: Would you like to forecast your future sales revenues based on past data? Select the dataset, go to the Data tab and click on Forecast Sheet. Future sales data is automatically forecasted, even accounting for seasonality.
4. Quick Analysis Tool: This one packs a whole bunch of features in a single shortcut. It's like your personal Excel assistant that you can ask for almost anything. Select the data you're working with, then press Ctrl+Q to bring up the Quick Analysis menu. It allows you to add conditional formatting, charts, totals, tables and sparklines based on your data.
5. The ultimate timesaver - Power Query: I've saved the best for last. You probably know by now that Power Query is my favorite tool. It allows you to grab data from many different sources, like text/csv, web, pdf, and more. But it also allows you to do complex transformations on the data right there in your workbook in a couple of very simple clicks. In the video, I show you how to pivot a column, but there's a ton more that you can achieve with this amazing tool. And the best part? It's fully dynamic. When your data grows, all you have to do is refresh.
00:00 Excel Timesaver features
00:20 Excel Bookmarks
02:16 How to delete a bookmark
02:30 AI Powered Data Analysis
04:29 One-Click Forecasting
06:27 Quick Analysis Tool
08:48 Power Query the ultimate timesaver
09:42 Convert Rows to Columns with Power Query (pivot data)
11:45 Learn Power Query from scratch
13:37 Wrap Up
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[@LeilaGharani]

Let me know what your favorite time-saver tips are! You can checkout our Power Query course here: link.xelplus.com/yt-c-timesaver-pq-course to become a data wizard. Plus, don't miss out on exclusive tips, updates, and productivity tricks - sign up for our "Between the Sheets" newsletter: link.xelplus.com/yt-c-newsletter Let's excel together! 💪 P.S. Addressing this here since I saw it in the comments - "Why not use a pivot table?" Very smart question - and the answer is you can certainly use a pivot table - why I didn't use one is because originally I'd added some gaps in the data but I went over 10 clicks 😁 during the cleaning process. The advantage with PQ as you probably know by now is the cleaning we can do before and also that the data can come from another file or another source. One advantage of using PQ here instead of a Pivot table is we don't have the restriction with the pivot table layout. That does annoy me sometimes🙂

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Using the Name box for bookmarking a cell within a tab of a large spreadsheet-brilliant!

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Hi Leila, you are the best of all the best Excel experts. This video is one of the best. Thank you.

[@dshields-library]

The tip about Bookmarks is enhanced by the Go To, Ctrl-G, keyboard shortcut. Ctrl-G opens a dialog box showing the available bookmarks (along with tables) in the upper window titled "Go to:". Click the desired bookmark to go there. Then, to go back to where you started, click Ctrl-G again. The location of the prior cell (before clicking Ctrl-G initially) appears in the lower window titled "Reference". Click ok and you are back to where you started. In one of my large workbooks, I have a sheet called "Clipboard" where I store repeatedly used text and that I have bookmarked. Ctrl-G facilitates copying and pasting from the Clipboard worksheet in this workbook.

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3:05 I teach a lot of people on filter top and bottom values (using normal filters) It's so unknown and save so much time! Thanks Leila for the great Analyze AI Tip!!!

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Pivot columns! That’s what I’ve wanted on a power query problem. Thank you!

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Thanks for mentoring and making lives easier! ❤️ from India

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[@mr5bassman]

Excellent video! I've been using Excel for over 20 years and had ro do all of this the hard way, which was the only way. On one hand, this cheapens my experience, but it's such a time saver that you can't help but appreciate it.

[@chrism9037]

Thanks Leila! By far, Power Query is my favorite. As I've improved my PQ skills (and DAX and Power BI), I have dramatically increased my efficiency. Also, on tip #1 for navigation, another way to quickly navigate is to right-click on the left-right arrow right before the first sheet tab in the workbook (right above where it says "Ready"). An Activate box pops up, and you can quickly choose the sheet you want.

[@LeilaGharani]

Great tip! Thanks for sharing, Chris!

[@asmrindia]

Yes, Correct Hyperlink is also an another option to navigate.

[@mongolcoi]

I use Ctr + G and then type the name range that I made to navigate to specific sheet or cell. I find it so handy because I rarely use mouse.

[@SeyPras.]

I recently used named manager + the Indirect function (data validation) to have dependable list drop downs. Name manager is a very neat tool to have in your arsenal

[@ThisisDikky]

I'm familiar with all the tricks, but I learnt some new tricks from the 4th tip. Always great learning from Leila.

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Thanks Leila your videos are very clear and focused. I am learning a lot. I started with Lotus 123 in late 1980's and then Excel and the transformation is amazing. There is so much we can do now and you have been a great source for me to learn and admire the power of excel. It's a universe to be explored and learn from. best wishes

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Many thanks Leila, always learning something new...

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Great tip, Leila! Thank you so much, this will be helpful when I analyze data. I will try this on my current xls project.

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[@LeilaGharani]

Yay! Thank you Vijay! Yes, it was a while 😊

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Thank you, Leila.

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Alright, you got me. I came here thinking this was yet another KZbin clickbait vid. You got me good. Very solid tips. Thanks a lot 🙏

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Thank you so much Leila for the video

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You are welcome! I like the tip you transformed data into monthly report on sales. Do you have any video transform those data into weekly report? Thanks Leila! Hope you always healthy and beautiful!

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Sometimes it’s the simple things… range names as a bookmark! If only forecasting was really that easy! Maybe one day it can have the difficult conversations with account managers and directors 😜 I love power query. I learned it after I quit my last job and now embrace it in my new job. It is such a timesaver and enables me to handle so much data quickly and easily. If I could go back to my old job knowing what I know now things would be so different.

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Like always...you are amazing!

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Thank you, thank you, thank YOU. You are a life saver. I use Mac and don’t remember if the same features are visible on my Mac Excel. I wish I had know this a month ago as I manually calculated something similar. 😮

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Great and useful tips, with the same clarity of always!

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Great tip using name manager to quickly go to a predefined area. Always excellent content from you Leila!

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I would've transposed the data first, then used power query, however, I also like the transform feature too. Great job!

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Thank you for the effort and benefit you provide to us. Continue at the same pace, with best wishes for progress and success. 🤗

[@LeilaGharani]

Thank you! Will do!

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Name box bookmark is cool technique. 😊

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Wow. Great timesavers

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One of the most useful videos you've ever done THANK YOU !!!

[@LeilaGharani]

Wow, thanks!

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That is amazing. Thanks for the share.

[@dave3459]

Love your tips! Hijacking cell names for bootleg bookmarks is brilliant! One thing I hijack is custom sigfiles as one click email templates.

[@LeilaGharani]

Glad you like it. You could also look into quick parts in Outlook. Really great and flexible for template responses. Here is some more information in case you're interested: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iITPl5ugl66igZo

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That was great, thanks a lot!

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Your excel skills are superb @LeilaGharani I always learn something new from you every time I watch your videos.

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Awesome, thank you!

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Gr8... learned a lot from you as always.. this is fav

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Great 👍.. thanks for this tips...🎉

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Your Teaching style is amazing. Thank you so much.

[@LeilaGharani]

Glad you think so!

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I love these videos!

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You don't have to use power query for sales related or financial data. It can be used for anything that you want in a table. For example a file index. I use it to extract information from transmittals and get an overall record of documents received at what rev. I also use names. They are great as well for long formulae.

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I just lo lo love it ❤. Thanks a lot.

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You're the best.

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I've been using links in Excel sheets to make shortcuts to different workbooks and back. You can define a cell reference to go to a specific location and it works much faster for us than typing in the named cell.

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I agree, I use links in Excel to bring up specific web pages - you just have to rename them to something more concise. Links are simple but underrated.

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First of all I would like to thank you for teaching thousands of people through the channel. Can you let us know how to use an advanced filter in a shared Excel sheet.

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As usual great stuff

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Nice vacuum tubes old radio :) Greetings from Poland

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I like way you teach, my age 51, learn lot of things from you, keep it up!!

[@LeilaGharani]

Happy to hear that!

[@DaveIsAtWork-Really]

I have a file with multiple print areas on multiple sheets, that also gets emailed - so I don't want to have it loaded with unnecessary VBA that might cause issues for the recipients. I use the Name Box to select the name, select "Set Print Area" and "Quick Print" from the Quick Launch bar (a custom QL bar can save a ton of time!), select the next name, and so on. The printing is done with just a few clicks, without having to worry about where in the file the print ranges are located.

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Outstanding

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Good information

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Solid click of bookmark

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Really your teaching is very nice. And it is very useful for me thanks a lot

[@LeilaGharani]

Glad to hear that!

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Thank you so much for this helpful videos Mam.❤

[@LeilaGharani]

Our pleasure!

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In the power query example, you can also transform the date column directly to month instead of adding another column and deleting the date column (one step instead of two).

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Great 👍🏽

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Thank you Leila

[@LeilaGharani]

Our pleasure!

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The radio visible behind you intrigues me. I had one that dates back to 1960s operated by a battery pack, made by Philips.

[@LeilaGharani]

Love it too. Got it from my in-laws.

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Thanks!

[@LeilaGharani]

Thank you!

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Nice video.

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Superb like always. Is the power querry course chargeable?

[@geoffwatson]

First of all, I love your channel. I use both a Windows Laptop and a Mac and use Excel on both. However I predominantly use my Macbook. When you post your videos is it possible to mention upfront if the features mentioned can be accessed on a Mac also? Thanks.

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Excellent, Specially for 10clicks.... 👍

[@tristotech]

Thank you for the bookmark tips! I take a job that looking for engineering and physics student, turns out I have to audit a lot of machines with thousands of rows. Still got error with Python for Excel. For me, I can bookmark the last row and use it for my Macro script. Thank you

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Nice video

[@thorstenl.4928]

As always a solid video. Thanks for sharing. However, I find you should stop counting clicks. You actually missed to count some and it let me focus to much on the click counter than on the actual benefit of using power query… Thanks for sharing 😉

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nice video..very much helpful

[@LeilaGharani]

Glad to hear that, Dave!

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Excel is incomparable

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Yikes ... I almost gave up too soon! When I did not see a new video this morning, I concluded there would be no video again this week ... 😟. A few minutes later I circled back and was pleasantly surprised. I am reminded of the 'Hello Dolly' lyrics; "... so nice to have you back where you belong! ...". Quick Analysis Tool? ... OMG! ... LOVE it on several different levels. Thank you ... thank you ... thank you ... 😍😍😍 PS At the 7:25 mark " ... a bit too busy for me ..." ... 😂😂🤣🤣😂😂

[@LeilaGharani]

So glad you didn't miss it! Sorry for the pause. We've been in course creation mode 🤫

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Leila..you always dish out amazing stuff for us. 👍👍

[@LeilaGharani]

Thank you so much 🤗