by Peter Koebel | Apr 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
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...
by Peter Koebel | Mar 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
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...
by Peter Koebel | Nov 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
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....
by Peter Koebel | Nov 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
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...
by Peter Koebel | Nov 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
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...
by Peter Koebel | Oct 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
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...
