Let’s pretend you’re working in your Excel spreadsheet and you want to change the formatting of the cells in a column. You might experiment first with one cell. To see what it looks like, before you spend time copying to all your cells. Let’s first change the font of...

What is your company doing to not get duped by the survivorship bias trap? I’ll give you a classic example of survivorship bias. You might recognize this picture if you’ve studied survivorship bias, statistics, or data visualization. In World War 2 the U.S. Military...

Let’s say you want cells that are currently vertically in a column, horizontally in a row - let's learn how to use "paste transpose" to prepare the data in the desired format. One thing you can do is, select the relevant cells. Then copy them. Next select the cell you...

Have you ever been in a situation, where you need to easily select all the cells in a column? One way to easily do this, is in the top right of your keyboard press the “End” key. On the bottom left hold down “Shift”. On the bottom right of your keyboard, press the...

Let’s imagine you have a column of values in your spreadsheet and you need to easily calculate the total of all those values, aka figure out the sum. What you can do is, select all your values in the column and add an extra cell at the bottom. Next, on your keyboard...

Has it ever happened to you, where you open an excel file and you notice the column names are cut off and you can’t see all the information you want to look at?  One thing you can do, to widen the column width is select the column. Then go on the menu, under...

Imagine you’re working in your Excel spreadsheet and you scroll down the rows and notice your column names are missing. One way to prevent that from happening is to go into the menus and under ‘View’ select ‘Freeze Top Row’. Now the top row will be frozen, so you will...

Let’s pretend you’re in a meeting, reviewing your business services and the presenter shows you a standard chart like this one. Everyone will spend a lot of energy, trying to figure out what’s going on here. Also, they will spend a lot of time trying to come to an...

The Monty Hall problem is named after the original host of the game show Let's Make a Deal, Monty Hall. The problem is this: Let's pretend you're on a game show, and you're given the choice to pick one of three doors. Behind one door is a car (a winning prize)...