DATE function

This function will convert a day, month and year to a serial number that Excel uses for date values. Syntax DATE(Year, Month, Day) Year (required) – This is the year number from 1900 to 9999. Month (required) – This is the month number from 1 to 12. Day...

DATEVALUE function

This function will convert a date stored as text to a serial number that Excel uses for date values. Syntax DATEVALUE(Text) Text (required) – This is the date stored as text you would like to convert to a serial number. Example In this example we convert a few...
SUBSTITUTE function

SUBSTITUTE function

What Does It Do?   This function will allow you to find and replace a piece of text within a text string. You can either replace all occurrences of the piece of text or just a particular instance of it.   Syntax   SUBSTITUTE(Text, Find, Replace,...
Getting Started

Getting Started

So you’re new to Excel and have heard how great it is for calculations, data analysis, creating charts and graphs and the millions of other things you can do with it, but where to start?     When you open Excel, you will see this screen that will allow...
How To Conditionally Concatenate A Range

How To Conditionally Concatenate A Range

Excel has some great built in functions for summing and counting conditionally based on given criteria, but to concatenate a range conditionally we will need to create our own user defined function. This ConcatenateIf function will concatenate a range of values based...