Jon, I've been using Excel for decades, but I never realized you could double-click on the Format Painter to repeat use. What an awesome revelation. That example was my favorite. Keep up the great videos!
I knew several of these short cuts which are super helpful; the F2 button for entering/editing a cell was new to me and will have to try that one. The other one was the fill handle, I have known about putting cursor in the bottom right corner and dragging but double clicking to auto fill/update the cells is very helpful. I will be forwarding this to staff in the office so they can learn new tricks as well, if they don't already know. I believe half the staff I have forwarded emails from you to them and they may already be on your email list. I really like the tips and tricks - although some of the more advanced tips are over my head - but at least the accounting staff can find them useful. Thank you Jon for all the great information.
Just when I thought I knew EVERYTHING about Excel…your Excel video shows up in my mailbox. As always, Jon, thanks for another fabulous set of tips so well put together. There’s nobody like you! Please keep them coming!
As always, great job John. I especially liked being able to add the sheet number to the status bar. 👍 Also, starting at 2:18, I like how we can select cells like that.
CNTRL D to content above, including formats and formulas. ALT A T to apply filter. AlT W F F to apply freeze pane. CNTRL C to copy, then Right Click V yo paste value only. Very fast.
Although I still don't like to use the mouse too much, a lot of the double click tips are worth incorporating. On a side note: I'm mousing left, so I'm used to translating 'right click' to 'left click' and vice versa. But better words would be "selection button" (my right) and "context button" (my left).
While I can see the name range when I scroll to less than 40% it's difficult to read at that scale. How did you make your Name Range bigger than the surrounding text?
I don't seem to get the "Sheet number in status bar" option when I right-click on the status bar. Even the lock drawing mode option isn't available in my version. I have excel version 2016.
Click something from status bar that will automatically copied in clipboard and then paste it to the cell....i really was thinking recently if somehow that can be done. And voila!!
Yes! I sometimes wish this feature wasn't so "hidden" because it can be very useful. I forgot to mention in the video that Enter/Edit modes also work in all popup windows where you are selecting ranges. Data validation, conditional formatting, named ranges, etc. These are often referred to as ref edit boxes.
Very useful! Thanks, Jon. My tip - I like to put the QAT below the ribbon: the icons are clearer and coloured down there and you can fit many more of them.
I'm so reliant on my QAT (below the ribbon as you note which is so helpful), that when I have to help another on Excel, I find that I'm swimming through peanut butter to get to the needful things. We develop so much muscle memory in using our Excel tools.
Hi Foxinusa! 🙂 One way is to create additional columns for the second first name and the second last name, then sort according to your desire. Another way would be to reverse the names manually and add commas. For example, the name "Apple Banana Cherry Lemon" could have "Apple Banana" in the first name column, and "Lemon, Cherry" in the last name column. Sorting on the last name in that case would sort on the letter, "L." I hope that helps! 😊
I use most of these but one I have been using lately is the status bar calculations, especially when the values I want to sum are not contiguous. Just Ctrl and select those you want evaluate, no need to write a formula to get a quick result.
'Name Box Range Selection' - I have a worksheet that I was scrolling several thousands of rows using page down on a regular basis. This takes me right to my target point. I knew Excel had a work around and you just showed me. Thanks.
Though I've used Excel for many years, first at work and now at home, I've learnt several useful tips here. My favourite is double-clicking the Format Painter to lock it, rather than having to keep clicking on it to reformat several other cells on different parts of the worksheet. It certainly saves time! 😃👍
Good point! I don’t believe there are any sheet navigation features like that on the mobile version. One workaround is to add a table of contents sheet to your workbook. You would need to create that sheet on the desktop version with either VBA or Office Scripts. I have a few videos that explain the setup in more detail. th-cam.com/video/pLTph31wyZY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=K1Mf5-TSLveAEPbJ th-cam.com/users/shortsD4eZZr9RqCg?si=VAr_TC6Eu_d4kGad I hope that helps. 🙂
@@ExcelCampusI've seen your tutorial, amongst a few others at the leading edge of M$ Office; just don't really use it for my travel / business delivery needs.
OMG i learned more in 8 minutes than the last 6 weeks i've spent in an Excel CLASS. Thank you. Favorite short cut here? Probably the Status bar trick for adding the sum etc. to a cell and/or adding options to the bar area.
I have used Excel from before Noah went into the ark and I am very much a keyboard jocky, mouses are for navigation, keyboards are for work. However I did learn 3 new things today. thanks
"Mouses are for navigation, keyboards are for work". Haha, love it! I'm sure there were mice on the ark, but never knew there were keyboards too. 😜 Happy to hear you learned some new things. Thanks!
I really enjoyed it. Please do something on linking cells and sheets like if I have a list of names, when ever I click on a name it takes me to his page or file.
Thanks! One way to achieve that is with a table of contents sheet. This is just a sheet with a list of sheet names and links to each sheet. We can use a macro to create the sheet. Here are a few videos that explain the setup. th-cam.com/video/pLTph31wyZY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=K1Mf5-TSLveAEPbJ th-cam.com/users/shortsD4eZZr9RqCg?si=VAr_TC6Eu_d4kGad There are other ways to do this, including linking to files instead of sheets. I'll add that to our list for future videos. Thanks!
Wow, great tips! I only am very bad in remembering, so I will have to review these tips again and again. But I loved the lock mode and the zooming selection
F2 to switch between edit and enter mode is just what I’ve been looking for - always thought it wasn’t possible to go back to navigating by arrows after entering the initial formula 😂
My favorite TH-cam hack: For all of the Excel tips and tricks that you know you won't remember, create a saved list call Jon's Excel Hacks and save the video for your future reference. Favorite? Like picking a favorite child. (1) Lock the drawing tool. (Though I don't draw much). (2) Double clicking on the Toolbar to collapse and restore. My all time favorite tip from you is your running totals in tables. It is a feature I use a lot, and your method is both simple and effective. My personal tip for those who work with tables extensively: lot, adding the table totals icon to the QAT. Also the column filter toggle shortcut is something I use frequently. It is a godsend for eliminating any filters from a table quickly from large tables.
Thanks so much for sharing and for your support! I love the Jon's Excel Hacks idea!! We'll think about how we can create something around that idea in the future. For anyone wondering about the running totals in Tables, here's a link to that video. Running Totals In Excel Tables - The Efficient Way th-cam.com/video/PGlBfr5SeEA/w-d-xo.html Thanks again! 🙌
Lock the drawing tool, and the selection : great tips!!
Agreed; that was the one that had me saying, "I wish I'd known that before!"
Jon, I've been using Excel for decades, but I never realized you could double-click on the Format Painter to repeat use. What an awesome revelation. That example was my favorite. Keep up the great videos!
Thanks, Tom! 😀
Hands down, this is the Excel tips video with the most and greatest tips in the short period of time. Nicely done!
Thanks for the feedback, Sam! 😀
@@ExcelCampus Thanks to you for producing such informative quality.
And well, clearly explained, making sense and easy to learn!
A 25+ year Excel user learned more than 30% of those features today. 🙂 Thanks!
You're welcome! 😀
All tips are good and very useful. I like the tips at 00:20 and 00:35 (workbooks containing multiple sheets, moving between these sheets etc.).
My favorite was double clicking to hide the ribbon. I didn’t know that one and it will help tremendously.
Drawing tools tips
I knew several of these short cuts which are super helpful; the F2 button for entering/editing a cell was new to me and will have to try that one. The other one was the fill handle, I have known about putting cursor in the bottom right corner and dragging but double clicking to auto fill/update the cells is very helpful. I will be forwarding this to staff in the office so they can learn new tricks as well, if they don't already know. I believe half the staff I have forwarded emails from you to them and they may already be on your email list. I really like the tips and tricks - although some of the more advanced tips are over my head - but at least the accounting staff can find them useful. Thank you Jon for all the great information.
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Outstanding tips. Love the right-click on sheet arrows to obtain a list of sheet names for easy navigation.
Me too!
Just like a previous comment, I have used Excel for years but not seen most of these shortcuts. Thank you
You are welcome! 😀
The select shapes tip was excellent- also the format painter double click - I knew this before but had forgotton it
Just when I thought I knew EVERYTHING about Excel…your Excel video shows up in my mailbox. As always, Jon, thanks for another fabulous set of tips so well put together. There’s nobody like you! Please keep them coming!
As always, great job John. I especially liked being able to add the sheet number to the status bar. 👍
Also, starting at 2:18, I like how we can select cells like that.
I loved the double clicking on the format painter! Thanks Jon!
CNTRL D to content above, including formats and formulas.
ALT A T to apply filter.
AlT W F F to apply freeze pane.
CNTRL C to copy,
then Right Click V yo paste value only.
Very fast.
Did not know about the 'Lock Drawing Mode' - that will certainly help now! 🙂
Thank you, I found the video interesting and extremely useful. The zoom to fit selection was my favorite feature.
The tips about the status bar are cool seem really interesting but the best tip might be clicking to collapse the ribbon! 🎉
Although I still don't like to use the mouse too much, a lot of the double click tips are worth incorporating. On a side note: I'm mousing left, so I'm used to translating 'right click' to 'left click' and vice versa. But better words would be "selection button" (my right) and "context button" (my left).
While I can see the name range when I scroll to less than 40% it's difficult to read at that scale. How did you make your Name Range bigger than the surrounding text?
I don't seem to get the "Sheet number in status bar" option when I right-click on the status bar. Even the lock drawing mode option isn't available in my version. I have excel version 2016.
auto column width
Just learning excel. I subscribed to your channel.❤
Click something from status bar that will automatically copied in clipboard and then paste it to the cell....i really was thinking recently if somehow that can be done. And voila!!
Defs "Lock drawing mode" !! Changed my life. ;-)
It's always great to keep the brain refreshed and constantly learning little features/shortcuts 👍, thanks for the video!
Format painter lock mode was something I did not know! That will save some time for sure👏
your content is so freaking helpful
Most of the features are known. However learn special feature with format paint double click. Thanks
Wow ... I learnt so much from this one video. Look forward to watching some of your other videos
I do like your explanation of excel. Very clear.
How do you copy the foremating of sheet without the content of the sheet?
You hv done very hard work and lot research on excel. Thanks for sharing
Double click Format painter, selecting cells by typing cell number. Zoom to fit selection.
Select Objects! Lock drawing mode!
All tips are really helpful. Great video, thanks a lot
My favorite _ format painter locking, toggle between edit mode and enter mode by pressing f2
Locking format painter. Mind blown
I’ve been an excel user for many years. I only knew about a couple of these tips. This video has been really informative and helpful,thanks very much.
Glad it was helpful! 😀
Good tips (new features?) I didn't know about.
I didn’t know you could lock the Format Painter. I will use that a lot. Great tips!
F2 Enter/Edit - explains why editing formulas sometimes goes awry!
Yes! I sometimes wish this feature wasn't so "hidden" because it can be very useful. I forgot to mention in the video that Enter/Edit modes also work in all popup windows where you are selecting ranges. Data validation, conditional formatting, named ranges, etc. These are often referred to as ref edit boxes.
Very useful! Thanks, Jon. My tip - I like to put the QAT below the ribbon: the icons are clearer and coloured down there and you can fit many more of them.
I'm so reliant on my QAT (below the ribbon as you note which is so helpful), that when I have to help another on Excel, I find that I'm swimming through peanut butter to get to the needful things. We develop so much muscle memory in using our Excel tools.
Likes the format locking.
Didnot know of it.
Hi Jon,
How can I our Spanish employees’ 2 first name and two last name can adjust to last name first.
Thank you for your help.
Hi Foxinusa! 🙂 One way is to create additional columns for the second first name and the second last name, then sort according to your desire. Another way would be to reverse the names manually and add commas. For example, the name "Apple Banana Cherry Lemon" could have "Apple Banana" in the first name column, and "Lemon, Cherry" in the last name column. Sorting on the last name in that case would sort on the letter, "L." I hope that helps! 😊
Can you make a video on a faster way to compare the 1st data set to 2nd data set and extract the difference added after the 1st data was pulled.
Great to know how to use Enter Mode and Edit Mode to update formula.
Locking the drawing tool was a new one for me and one that will come in handy
I like select the object selection button and drawing lock option. Thank you sir for this knowledge sharing. 🙏
You are welcome 😀
Tips related to shapes are my favourite
Can you draw out a course outline in excel for data analytics training?
You are very, very good, I think this tips are very usefull. Thanks
Thanks, Jose! 😀
Thanks Jon, love the Lock Drawing Mode
Hey i am getting a dget value error pls make a video or help me explain it
For the tip at the minutes 7:24 can be done with ctrl + f1
Hard to pick. I just plain love shortcuts. Collapsing the ribbon and using the Quick Access toolbar (for any 365 products) is the way I work.
I use most of these but one I have been using lately is the status bar calculations, especially when the values I want to sum are not contiguous. Just Ctrl and select those you want evaluate, no need to write a formula to get a quick result.
Great tip with the Ctrl+select! Thanks Willie! 🙌
The Format Painter was a surprise. Previously I was using conditional formatting with formula =MOD(ROW(),2)=0 to make alternate colored rows
Amazing! Thank you so much!!
The zoom out for named ranges is very helpful
'Name Box Range Selection' - I have a worksheet that I was scrolling several thousands of rows using page down on a regular basis. This takes me right to my target point. I knew Excel had a work around and you just showed me. Thanks.
I learned a lot of great tips from this video. Thank you so much. 👍
You're welcome! 😀
Though I've used Excel for many years, first at work and now at home, I've learnt several useful tips here. My favourite is double-clicking the Format Painter to lock it, rather than having to keep clicking on it to reformat several other cells on different parts of the worksheet. It certainly saves time! 😃👍
Tip #1 doesn't work for Excel on mobile devices, unfortunately. 😢
Good point! I don’t believe there are any sheet navigation features like that on the mobile version. One workaround is to add a table of contents sheet to your workbook. You would need to create that sheet on the desktop version with either VBA or Office Scripts.
I have a few videos that explain the setup in more detail.
th-cam.com/video/pLTph31wyZY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=K1Mf5-TSLveAEPbJ
th-cam.com/users/shortsD4eZZr9RqCg?si=VAr_TC6Eu_d4kGad
I hope that helps. 🙂
@@ExcelCampusI've seen your tutorial, amongst a few others at the leading edge of M$ Office; just don't really use it for my travel / business delivery needs.
Thank You Jon.!!
Edit & F2
OMG i learned more in 8 minutes than the last 6 weeks i've spent in an Excel CLASS. Thank you.
Favorite short cut here? Probably the Status bar trick for adding the sum etc. to a cell and/or adding options to the bar area.
F2 button in righting formula
BEST excel tips everrrr 🎉. So many faves - will be adding them to my repertoire ✌🏼👏🏼 thx heaps from 🇦🇺
Been using Excel since the 90s. I knew less than half of these. Well Done! Thanks.
You're welcome! 😀
Lock Drawing Mode -> woww, thanks Jon! ;-)
You're welcome! 😀
Thank you very much ❤
I have used Excel from before Noah went into the ark and I am very much a keyboard jocky, mouses are for navigation, keyboards are for work. However I did learn 3 new things today. thanks
Hah...I still miss Lotus 123. I had spreadsheet PTSD when Microsoft won the software wars. (Amipro, I miss you too)
"Mouses are for navigation, keyboards are for work". Haha, love it! I'm sure there were mice on the ark, but never knew there were keyboards too. 😜
Happy to hear you learned some new things. Thanks!
Unrelated to Excel, but you seem like a nice person. That is all.
😊 💚
I really enjoyed it. Please do something on linking cells and sheets like if I have a list of names, when ever I click on a name it takes me to his page or file.
Thanks! One way to achieve that is with a table of contents sheet. This is just a sheet with a list of sheet names and links to each sheet. We can use a macro to create the sheet. Here are a few videos that explain the setup.
th-cam.com/video/pLTph31wyZY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=K1Mf5-TSLveAEPbJ
th-cam.com/users/shortsD4eZZr9RqCg?si=VAr_TC6Eu_d4kGad
There are other ways to do this, including linking to files instead of sheets. I'll add that to our list for future videos.
Thanks!
The zoom was my favorite
Wow, great tips! I only am very bad in remembering, so I will have to review these tips again and again. But I loved the lock mode and the zooming selection
I want to pull down importrange data in below row in google sheet, but cell reference not change, how i can do it?
No one can help me?
F2 to switch between edit and enter mode is just what I’ve been looking for - always thought it wasn’t possible to go back to navigating by arrows after entering the initial formula 😂
I didn’t know about “Fit to selection” to automatically zoom in on the cells you have highlighted - handy!
Great tips. The steps moved fast but very helpful.
Glad it was helpful! 😀
Thank you very much! The select objects tip is my favorite- did not know that one!
Very useful, Jon :D (davvero utile, Jon)
Good video, thank you 🎉
double click the format tool... great!!! very useful.
Great video!
Master: Thank you. Excellent.
❤❤
Really like the double-click ribbon tabs to collapse and expand the ribbon.
What a fantastic amount of great tips both here and in other videos from other Excel experts - I wish I could remember more of them
My favorite was either the select range option, or the double click to keep the formatting painter on
Some pretty nice tips there. Thanks!
Welcome! 😀
Cool and useful
My favorite TH-cam hack: For all of the Excel tips and tricks that you know you won't remember, create a saved list call Jon's Excel Hacks and save the video for your future reference.
Favorite? Like picking a favorite child. (1) Lock the drawing tool. (Though I don't draw much). (2) Double clicking on the Toolbar to collapse and restore. My all time favorite tip from you is your running totals in tables. It is a feature I use a lot, and your method is both simple and effective. My personal tip for those who work with tables extensively: lot, adding the table totals icon to the QAT. Also the column filter toggle shortcut is something I use frequently. It is a godsend for eliminating any filters from a table quickly from large tables.
Thanks so much for sharing and for your support! I love the Jon's Excel Hacks idea!! We'll think about how we can create something around that idea in the future.
For anyone wondering about the running totals in Tables, here's a link to that video.
Running Totals In Excel Tables - The Efficient Way
th-cam.com/video/PGlBfr5SeEA/w-d-xo.html
Thanks again! 🙌
Genius ...Thanks
These are amazing tips.
Thank you so much.
Thanks a lot
Top tip... Don't have too many sheets per workbook!
Nice tips, I like the lock drawing mode tip!
Awesome....I love it ..thanks John...
Thanks for watching! 😀