Search the site for help on a problem you have right now or browse the lessons below to improve your skills. We're adding new lessons all the time, so check back often.
Freeze or lock rows and columns in an Excel worksheet
When you are working with a large spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel, it’s easy to find yourself scrolling down or across and losing track of where you are. This lesson explains how to freeze rows and columns (officially known as “Freeze Panes”) in Excel 2010 for Windows and Excel 2011 for Mac.
Use the MATCH function in Excel to find the position of a value in a list
The MATCH() function allows you to find the position of a value in a list. For example, in a list of weekdays starting with Monday, MATCH() would return a value of 3 for Wednesday. This lesson explains how to use the MATCH() function in Microsoft Excel, explains where you might use it, and provides a real world example of the MATCH() function in action.
Rounding numbers in Excel
Rounding in Excel refers to reducing the number of digits in a number to make it easier to work with. A common example is rounding a price to two decimal places. Rounding errors can cause havoc with your spreadsheets without you even realising it. A common mistake occurs when you change the display format of a number to show fewer digits after the decimal point and assume that the number has been rounded for use in other calculations. This lesson explains how rounding in Excel works, and shows you how to use the different rounding functions available in Excel.
Use Conditional Formatting to shade alternate rows in Excel
If you are working with large tables of data in Excel, you can make your spreadsheet easier to read by formatting alternate rows to be shaded a different colour. There are a number of ways you can achieve this. This lesson shows you a quick and easy way to do it on Excel 2011 for Mac.
Repeat Microsoft Word table headings across multiple pages
When you create a large table in Microsoft Word that spans multiple pages, you’ll find on the second and subsequent pages that the table headings don’t repeat. In this lesson you’ll learn how to configure one or more rows of your table to repeat at the top of the page for every page on which your table appears. This lesson applies to tables in Microsoft Word 2010 for Windows and Word 2011 for Mac (as well as Word 2007 for Windows).
Stop table rows in Microsoft Word from splitting across pages
Tables in Microsoft Word are great, but the default settings for tables are sometimes not what you want. In particular, Word will break rows with a lot of text across two pages if it needs to. If you’d rather have Word break tables up between pages so that each row is kept intact and not split across two pages, this lesson will show you how to do it. This lesson covers Microsoft Word 2007, 2010 and 2013 for Windows, and Microsoft Word 2011 for Mac.
How to create a Pivot Table in Excel
Excel’s Pivot Table feature is an incredibly powerful tool that makes it easy to tabulate and summarise data in your spreadsheets, particularly if your data changes a lot. This lesson will show you how to create a simple pivot table in Excel to summarize a set of daily sales data for a team of several sales people.
How to enter basic formulas and calculations in Excel
If you’re getting started with Excel, creating formulas is one of the first things you should learn. In this lesson you’ll learn how to create simple formulas and calculations in Excel.
Reducing the Bounce Rate on your website
A high bounce rate on a website indicates that your visitors are not engaging once they arrive on your website. That means your website isn’t as effective as it could be. Find out here how to reduce your bounce rate.
Use concatenation to combine text and numbers in Excel formulas
If you want to combine text with the results of a formula in a cell, you can use concatenation. Suppose you have calculated the total of a range of cells using a formula in cell D2. Now, you want to have cell A2 display the text “Today’s sales are $12,000”, where $12,000 is the value calculated in D2. As the value in D2 changes, you want the value in A2 to update automatically.
Additional Info
Join our mailing list
