5 Excel Tools Most Users Never Think to Use (Files Included)

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❓Which one of the tools is your favorite? Let me know in the comments! Download the FREE "Custom Number Formats" cheatsheet: bit.ly/tools24cheatsheet

[@SAI-xn7yq]

I am new here someone help me guide where to start in this channel, which playlist to which? 🙏🙏🙏

[@shakiraasfoor7599]

@@SAI-xn7yq all these videos are useful, myanda is MPV.

[@shakiraasfoor7599]

Tool №3 Clipboard

[@mademoiselleaqua]

#3! but also learned a lot from the rest as well.

[@LouzyNL]

Paste special skip blanks is a game changer for me !

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

Great to hear you make use of it!

[@kgadeberg]

I agree with no. 3 being very useful. I use the WIN+V all the time in all applications. Especially if I have a number of items I need to copy from one window to another. Instead of flipping back and forth between the windows using CTRL+C CTRL+V all the time, I pick up all I need from one window using CTRL+C multiple times and then paste them into the other window using WIN+V. Super useful.

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Great use case for Win+V. Thanks for sharing.

[@franciscobarillas8500]

Thank you for such useful videos! I am a data analyst consultant who mostly uses Python or R for Analysis. I stopped using excel because I considered it passé, you’ve shown me that I need to get back and refresh my knowledge for updated functions.

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

Excel has come a long way with the introduction of dynamic arrays, Power Query and more. Have fun with it!

[@shirsN]

I watch content about excel from many other channels i like theirs and yours too. But the way you speak so peacefully sets it apart 😃

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

Thanks so much 🥰 I appreciate that!

[@CajOosters]

As always with your tips, very usefyl Mynda. Thanks a lot. My favorite is tip 2 but I think that I'll use tip 3 more often. Please keep up the good work to help me use Excel better every day.

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Thank you! Glad you found some ideas you can use 😊

[@venkatiyer7459]

I wish I have seen this video 4 hours back .... I was manually entering the data .... the paste special option with skip blanks would have worked for me .. any ways thanks a lot for these wonderful tips .... a big salute for your visualization as to how we work in Excel :)

[@SissasHeART]

I totally watched this with my morning coffee this morning, and then my hubby had a situation tonight where I got to use your tips! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and very cool hacks. ... and bonus, I got to be the Excel Hero with my hubbs! Whoot.

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

Love that! 😁👏

[@sandratruax715]

#2. Paste Special (Convert Values) is my favorite. Love your videos and your teaching style.

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Thanks for your kind words 🙏😊

[@KittKatPawz]

Wow!! The skip blanks and multiply ones I’ve never known. Thanks for the updates on how to use! 😊

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Glad you like them!

[@SteveSwanson999]

I have long been a user of the Windows Key Paste you discussed. THANK YOU SO MUCH about displaying the clipboard and frequently used special characters! It's a big plus on an already powerful tool

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

So pleased you can make use of it.

[@kennygee2715]

I've been using excel for over 25 years and I didn't know about several of these tips. Thank you!

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

So pleased you discovered some new tips 😊

[@hailegtesfa7540]

What I like most of you is that you are to the point and clear!

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Much appreciated 🥰

[@joshuamanampiu6489]

Honestly the highlighting cells with the triangles and custom format is so good for me. But all the tips in the video are fantastic!

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Glad you like them!

[@flightforge30]

bravo! ive learned a lot from this video and come to think of it that I'll be needing these techniques on conditional formatting

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Wonderful to hear!

[@notesfromleisa-land]

Mon Dieu! Skip Blanks! (hiding from me all of this time!). The Formatting of the up/down custom formatting was the bell ringer for me. I always learn something new. Thanks Mynda!

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

😁glad you can make use of some of these techniques.

[@kevinmahernz]

You can also add colours to the up and down symbols so e.g. the up arrow appears green and down red. I've yet to watch Mynda's custom formats video, but it's more than likely in there somewhere.

[@johnkasongo4762]

Bravo Mynda, these are tools that are quite useful and I must admit as an everyday excel user I never imagined my work could be simplified with the latter ones. N°3 isvery cool indeed yet I favor N°4 because on a weekly basis I share excel files with my team or colleagues or even my supervisor and am not able to hide some spreadsheets I wouldn't want them to see. Keep it up, your hints and ticks come in very handy at times. Once again thank you I appreciate your teachings which are clearly explained and easy to practise. Regards

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

So pleased you found some tips you can use 😊

[@humansizedaperture]

I love the Visual Basic editor example. I’ve never seen someone whip it out in a handy shortcuts video, which is great because it can look intimidating at first but if normalized unlocks so much opportunity!

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

That's great to hear 🙏

[@12drbe]

Great videos. I want to create a form and fill in the data from an existing excel spreadsheet

[@jonk3361]

Best one for me was grouping, Skipping blanks, using VBA option to hide sheet and the OG is changing numbers to %. Many thanks🤝🤝🤝

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

😁too many to choose from! Thanks for watching and sharing your favourites.

[@foulanelson2006]

Love t No 4! The Very Hidden "hack" has saved me hours of fixing Simple Dashboards that I share with a bigger audience. I simply make my Pivot Sheets Very Hidden and then protect the workbook, but still allow access to select Slicers.... Works like a charm :). Thanks for a GREAT video always learn something new. Today it was the Graphs with the arrows in Tool # 6

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Awesome to hear! 😁

[@lauphyon]

Tools number 2 & 3 absolutely! The money platform report is always time time-consuming workload and converted into our company's report. Thank you!

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Great to hear you can make use of them! 😊

[@aiasaiascon3894]

Group - Ungroup columns is really helpful for temp use of narrowing focus! Skip Blanks was smth I didnot know!!!

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So pleased it was helpful 😊

[@Flicka-z3g]

I didn't know about #4 and I love that! Will definitely be super hiding some sheets from nosy folk. As for ones I use a ton, #5 (Custom formatting). I use this to bypass conditional formatting which can really bog down a large worksheet (and also gets messy with pivot tables and copy/pasted cells). Finally, thanks for pointing out using purple as an alternative for people with certain visual impairments. I love that you use icons as well.

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

So pleased you found some new ideas you can use 😊

[@yokoyama7590]

Just when I thought I couldn't be impressed, you did it! All 6 tools are great to know, and now I know. Thank you Mynda!

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😁 awesome to hear!

[@rjbush7955]

Hiding sheets by VBA properties is a favourite of mine. Useful to hide lookup sheets from being tampered with in a shared workbook.

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Nice to know you use it too 😁

[@FarhanMerchant]

Some really amazing insights ; although I have been using these... but you have made it more effective and optimized. Thank you

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Glad it was helpful!

[@BuckeyeNut123]

Grouping. I create very large and ever expanding sheets in my books. I wish I had known about this many years ago. Thank you.

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

So pleased you can make use of this feature.

[@anv.4614]

Thank you very much. The best tool I like is conditional formatting.

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You are welcome!

[@FsoOmar]

Great tips. There is always something new to learn in Excel. Thank you 😊. I liked most No.# 6 @ 11:04. That was totally new to me.

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Glad you enjoyed it and discovered something new!

[@ym10up]

Oh my goodness the paste special skip blanks is going to be so useful! Thank you so much!!

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Great to hear!

[@madlarch]

Wow. I use conditional formatting with formulas all the time - although I tend to prefer doing a background fill on the cell in order to make it really stand out. I have also seen the symbols thing in another video (of yours, I think). However, I did not know any of the first four! VERY useful video. Thanks !!!!

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So pleased to hear you found some new ideas 😁

[@silvo4880]

I’d not thought to put symbols in the custom format before, that’s neat. I have been using the text colour in custom format rather than conditional formatting for a wile now as the conditional formatting ranges often need a tidy up on larger spreadsheets with multiple users.

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

Glad you liked it! I know what you mean about CF. Fortunately, in 365 they've finally fixed the issue of fragmented CF ranges 😅 I prefer CF because the colours are easier to choose. With custom number formats you have to lookup the colour code if it's not one of the standard colours.

[@RoelVinkes]

Totally forgot about Number 1. Started reusing it, thanks.

[@kevinmahernz]

Thank you for this, wasn't aware of the clipboard being available in Excel. Did know of Win-V but wasn't aware of the tabs within it. Never used Paste Special Multiply either, so good to know that exists!

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

Awesome to hear!

[@martyc5674]

A great tip to hide grouping/outlines is Ctrl 8 - toggles it on and off- it takes up a whack of real estate. Combined with Ctrl shift and F1 you maximize your screen when presenting.

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

Great tips 🙏

[@vikastiwari7134]

last tip was awesome Mynda, I didn't knew that one, Love from India, please always surprise us with these tips and tricks.

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Thank you! Will do!

[@daves902]

There are days when I think I am pretty good with Excel & then I watch one of these clips and realise there are a lot of simple things I miss… 🤦‍♂️😂

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So glad you found some new tips you can use 😊

[@bobgreenfield9158]

My Excel was fighting with me. I was trying to insert columns. It would do a few and it stopped. A big ribbon would come up. I couldn't use that. I had to really fight with it to do as I asked. It was exhausting. What is the solution to this? ​@@MyOnlineTrainingHub

[@nbjamspice]

I feel the same... I appreciate these clips

[@UpcomingJedi]

Thats better than thinking im pretty good then i realise i have no idea how to do something so stupid simple like adding a second axis to a line graph

[@cathyfrankland9158]

OMG, I'm only part of the way into the video, but - WOW, column grouping and skip blanks, thank you, they will be SO helpful ❤

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Awesome to hear 😁

[@thomas_didymus]

Thank you. I like and now use Tip 1, column groups. Very handy! I need more groups, I'll bet some day soon there will be more available.

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Great to hear!

[@doberg3191]

I also use the "Paste Special" multiply by 1 when numbers are formatted as text.

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

Yes, another great use case. Thanks for sharing.

[@mllawhorn5584]

Great tips! I particularly like the vb method of hiding worksheet. I was unaware of that one.

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Glad it was helpful!

[@masoudsalami]

Good stuff you are teaching us. Thank you very much and you speak so peacefully and very easy to understand. But I was able to make the up arrow green and the down one red. Then I copied and continued your instructions. But the colors come all black and not the red or green!

[@marybellandry2975]

Thank you Mynda! Always fun and most importantly useful tips!

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So glad!

[@mariateresabuenavista8560]

Skip blanks and multiply are my new faves!

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Awesome to hear!

[@remuslupinhp]

The custom # format trick is epic!

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Glad you like it 😁

[@Mark-Bench]

On Formating Numbers you can also add colors, so there is no need to use conditional formatting. I like to use the following format to show growth or decline in persentages. [Color50]0,0% ▲;[Red]-0,0% ▼

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

Yes, good point 👍 I always find the colour formatting a bit of a hassle cause you have to find the colour codes of anything other than the standard red, green, blue etc.

[@trebor6v418]

That windows+V short cut is extremely useful! Thank you!

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Glad it was helpful!

[@brighttriangle]

Thank you for another great video. I love to show folks the power of Paste Special, so that is probably my favorite. I would love that Clipboard Pane, but sadly it is unavailable on Mac. 🤷‍♂

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

Ah, the Mac strikes again. Another reason I will never own a Mac. 😔

[@melantha1982]

Never tried skip Blanks so will give it a go..cheers

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

So pleased to hear you found something new you can use 😁

[@eversut1]

Each and every second of the video is important and helpful, thank you.

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

That's wonderful to hear 🙏

[@GraeHunter]

Great video! - 1 & 3 are competting for favorutes. But in all honesty - I'll be using all of these from now on. I already used conditional formatting, but had never thought about how utilising a colourblind palette would more accessible. Time to review old templates

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

Awesome to hear, Grae!

[@TrocarSlushWeasel]

At my old job, Group Data was super useful when multiple people worked with the same spreadsheets. Hidden rows/columns aren't obvious but when you group data and hide rows/columns, it is obvious to other users that there is data hidden.

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

Yes, another great reason to use them. Thanks for sharing.

[@fayyaztabussam8611]

I like No.4 the most. Any how all numbers are super. Great stuff of course.

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Thanks for voting 😊

[@chandan5908]

So far the best vdo for learning excel . Thanks a lot.

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So glad to hear that 🙏

[@sagar360m]

Great learning, thanks for sharing ❤

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Glad you found it helpful 😊

[@MissPickles1980]

Hiding sheets! OMG, this is a game changer for me! Thank you!

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You're so welcome!

[@Cindanela]

Thank you for great videos. Love these tips. I have used excel for many years and did not know about the buildt in clipboard. Had seen the paste special before but forgot about it. I have red green color deficiency but those two colours you used together here are worse than red and green together for me, had to go very close to the screen to see the difference, but maybe my eyes are just weird. My Favourite custom format I've used lately is ;;; since it hides the cell value; learned it from a Swedish Microsoft MVP, can't remember the name, he does some short weekly Swedish videos and newsletter. Thank you again and have a lovely day:)

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

Thanks for watching! Glad you found some helpful tips. Good to know about the purple and green 🙏 will keep it in mind.

[@alfredoluwatomi6899]

This is fantastic, always having to learn a new simple yet powerful excel function. Many thanks.

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So pleased to hear that 😁

[@tony586ful]

Numeber 3... A real new world for me.. Thank you

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Awesome to hear!

[@yeldix123]

That paste special is very useful 😀. Thanks for sharing

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Great to hear!

[@kayespedal10]

Saw this one video and I immediately subscribed. I'll try some these tmw when I log in. A+

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Wonderful to hear 🙏

[@alexandercato7400]

Great list of tips! Appreciate how easy the video was to follow along.

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Glad you enjoyed it! 🙏😊

[@tomfontanella6585]

Never thought to click on that little arrow to expand the Clipboard menu item... I mean, what could possibly be there of value? :) I've used Excel for many years and thanks to your videos have moved from being befuddled by custom number formats to incorporating regular use of them.

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

Wow, that's great to hear, Tom!

[@kylelane630]

One I never 'noticed' Paste Special: Skip Blanks! And interestingly, I was thinking about that concept the other day...

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So glad it was helpful 😊

[@jimbarton5253]

The in-excel clipboard could be useful. Currently I use Ditto which doesn't have the clip limit and can sync clipboard on multiple PCs.

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Great to hear!

[@amjan]

#2 -> MIND = BLOWN, thank you!

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Awesome 😁

[@nour-eddineoumakhlouf5296]

Endless learning ! Thank you so much for all your efforts

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Happy to hear that!

[@MonikaR2006]

Gosh, this is brilliant! Thank you so much. I have a new subscriber 🙂

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Awesome! Thank you!

[@therealjeffg]

Thank Myda...yes no. 3 for me

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Great to hear!

[@richardhay645]

I'm a be fan of Grouping columns and of Paste Special I normally use keyboard shortcuts to apply the appropriate Paste Special option.

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Great to hear, Richard. I'm a fan of Alt > E > S too 😁

[@daoudathiaw]

Hide a sheet from its properties, just great. Thanks !

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😉you're welcome!

[@MikeFicher]

Oh, yes, tip 3 is a game-changer...thank you!

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Glad it was helpful!

[@Quidisi]

Oh, this was great. Some was new, and some were things that I once knew, but had forgotten. Thanks!!!

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That's a double win! 😁

[@ShirleiBarnes]

No wonder why I love Excel ❤

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Me too 😁

[@andrewwinmill1672]

Great extras for Excel, but I dont have clipboard icon in the bottom right, so no use to me?

[@bobmoorehead8553]

You are SOOO AMAZING! Tip #3 was my favorite, too. Thank you for continuing to share your tips. Have a fabulous day!

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You're so welcome! Hope you have a fabulous day too 😊

[@chrism9037]

Great video Mynda! I agree, 3 is the best

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Cheers, Chris! Glad we agree 😁

[@JeffLittle-bi5jd]

#3 is great ... didn't know this one! Also think #4 is excellent!

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Cheers, Jeff! Glad you like them.

[@TalShaba]

As I already know the most tricks , the 4th one is very useful. Great one

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Glad you can make use of it 😁

[@hailegtesfa7540]

You are fantastic!

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You're very kind 🙏

[@therealjeffg]

More gold, thanks Mynda. No. 3 if my favourite.

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Great to hear 🙏

[@tazguy371]

Skip Blanks is a good one! 👍

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Glad you liked it!

[@UlfatSahil]

Unbelievable way to design and do the things, like using shortcuts

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Glad you liked it 🙏

[@JJ_TheGreat]

7:50 Question: So if you hide a sheet that way so that it is "very hidden", and then you were to go back to Excel and hide a different sheet the usual way by right- clicking it, would it allow you to "Unhide..." it in that situation - considering that the very hidden method looks like it greys out that option? I am just curious. Thanks!

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No. Very hidden sheets can only be un-hidden via the VB editor.

[@karolinab9749]

#2 😀 and I love custom formatting! Thank you for this video!😀

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My pleasure! Thanks for watching 😁

[@ahmedshalaby9343]

Hello Very useful tips , I want to ask question about copy and paste operations if I have 2 columns with the same numbers of 100 rows , I filtered one of them and changed some data now I want to copy the changed data to the first column how I can do that ?

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Great question. I don't think there's an easy way to do that, sorry. Better to change both columns at the same time.

[@TH-vw4qn]

1 and 3 for me. Liked your video!

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Great to hear 🙏

[@BureBluetooth]

Great tips! I think #5 can be very useful😃

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

Thank you! Be sure to download the custom number format cheat sheet here: bit.ly/tools24cheatsheet

[@charnh.4360]

Thank you for this vid. I had know idea about these functions. I shared the link with my colleagues so they could watch and learn, too. :) One thing with regards to your conditional formatting using the up/down and up/down/dash rules (loooooove this). When you have a 0% change, excel displays it as an up arrow regardless of which of the above rules you use. Any ideas on how to correct this? I note your spreadsheet in your vid did not have any rows with 0% change, so the problem didn't "crop up". Thanks.

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

Thank you! You can choose the format with the yellow horizontal bar and set the icon to display yellow when it's =0 changing the 'Type' to 'Number'. If you get stuck, please post your question and sample Excel file on our forum where someone can help you further: www.myonlinetraininghub.com/excel-forum

[@charnh.4360]

@@MyOnlineTrainingHub Thanks for the quick reply. 😊 I figured out both the issues. It required a bunch more coffee in my system. Lol. For your first custom number format, if you use “0$ ▲;0% ▼;0% ▬” it will populate the ▬ for 0 values. Thank you for your “custom number format cheat sheet” as that was what allowed me to understand the requirement for that last bit of the custom format to push the dash for a 0 value. And as a side note and because this happened with a colleague of mine and I had to google the solution, if anyone does not see the subsets drop-down menu, make sure that you do not have "ASCII (decimal)" or "ASCII (hex)" selected in the “from” drop-down menu at the very bottom right of the pop-up window as the subsets will not display if you have either of them selected. For your second example with the icon set, change the first “value is” (for the up arrow) to only “>”. When you use “>=” it conflicts with the second line (the dash). Once this change is made, the dash will display properly for 0 values. Again, just want to say thank you very much for these instructional videos. I am learning so much stuff that I had no idea even existed. You get used to doing things a certain way, with certain tools in Excel and don’t realize or forget there are so many other methods than can help. /runs off to learn more from your other videos.

[@1348kourosh]

Skip blanks is very interesting thanks

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Glad you think so!

[@sjshar1510]

Thank you for this excellent video!

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Glad it was helpful!

[@mohammadalbizri2013]

Thank you for usual efforts.

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Always welcome 😊

[@imadmohammed1031]

many thanks teacher

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You are welcome 😊

[@swilson1958]

I learned so much!

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Wonderful to hear!

[@kagundateddy2023]

Thank you from Kenya

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My pleasure 😊

[@RA-rh5lb]

I never tried paste special blank.. or i would say i hardly use paste special. I dont know what is the use of them.. very few of them i used.. thanks

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

Thanks for watching. Your data must already be mostly clean and ready to analyse, which isn't the case for most people 😅

[@benhaze1010]

Love, love these useful tips!

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So glad!

[@TheNeilsolaris]

With the very hidden worksheet property, you can also password protect it, so nobody else can access the objects in the developer section without entering a password. That's what I do with one of my files.

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Nice.

[@TheNeilsolaris]

@@MyOnlineTrainingHub In case anyone is wondering how, in the developer tab, click on tools, then select VBA Project Properties, then Protection, and enter your password.

[@rksonsmultan]

Very Good, Thank You.

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Glad it was helpful!