Open Excel. Select Blank workbook. Or press Ctrl+N. Enter data. To manually enter data: Select an empty cell, such as A1, and then type text or a number. Press Enter or Tab to move to the next cell. To fill data in a series: Enter the beginning of the series in two cells: such as Jan and Feb; or 2014 and 2015.

List of all Excel functions available. VLOOKUP function. IF function. Create a drop-down list. Combine text from two or more cells. Freeze panes to lock rows & columns. Create a PivotTable to analyze worksheet data. Design the layout and format of a PivotTable. Sort data in a PivotTable or PivotChart.

Use this function to search for an item in a range of cells, and then return the relative position of that item in the range. For example, if the range A1:A3 contains the values 5, 7, and 38, then the formula =MATCH (7,A1:A3,0) returns the number 2, because 7 is the second item in the range. CHOOSE function. Use this function to select one of ...

In Control Panel, open Regional and Language Options. On the Regional Options tab, select a locale, and then click OK. Start Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. On the File menu, point to New, and then click Project. In the New Project dialog box, under Project Types, click Visual Basic Projects.

Switch to Excel and open the worksheet that has data that you want to import. Select the range of cells that contain the data that you want to import. Right-click within the selected range and then click Name a Range or Define Name. In the New Name dialog box, specify a name for the range in the Name box and click OK.

For formulas to show results, select them, press F2, and then press Enter. If you need to, you can adjust the column widths to see all the data. The ROW function in Excel returns the row number of a reference you enter in a formula. For example, =ROW (C10) returns row number 10. You can't use this function to insert or remove a row.

Power Pivot is an Excel add-in you can use to perform powerful data analysis and create sophisticated data models. With Power Pivot, you can mash up large volumes of data from various sources, perform information analysis rapidly, and share insights easily. In both Excel and in Power Pivot, you can create a Data Model, a collection of tables ...

Ctrl+Arrow key. Enter the End mode, move to the next nonblank cell in the same column or row as the active cell, and turn off End mode. If the cells are blank, move to the last cell in the row or column. End, Arrow key. Move to the last cell on a worksheet, to the lowest used row of the rightmost used column.

This behavior is based on a 256-character limitation in Excel for creating links to another file. This limit of 218 characters for the path name is based on the following: Up to 31 characters in a sheet name. Apostrophes and brackets used to denote the workbook name. An exclamation point.

If you have an XML Map, do this to import XML data into mapped cells: In the XML Map, select one of the mapped cells. Click Developer > Import. If you don't see the Developer tab, see Show the Developer tab. In the Import XML dialog box, locate and select the XML data file (.xml) you want to import, and click Import.