Excel Table Traps: Avoid Common Excel Pitfalls with These Tips!

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  • @GrainneDuggan_Excel
    @GrainneDuggan_Excel หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Thanks for the ISFIl tip and the solution for that dreadful error message on new sheets! My sanity is saved! Thanks Wyn ❤

    • @AccessAnalytic
      @AccessAnalytic  หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      You’re welcome Grainne

  • @LaloinLondon
    @LaloinLondon หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Mate, your videos are clear and useful. You deserve more subscribers and we deserve more videos from your channel.

  • @mustafaenessahin
    @mustafaenessahin 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    The first time I discovered your channel, you had 1.2k people plus 1- me :) -. Your channel deserves more. Please upload more analytic videos.
    Teach people how can use Excel for statistics and analytics.

    • @AccessAnalytic
      @AccessAnalytic  10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Thank you. I’m glad you’ve been along for the journey.
      My day job doesn’t involve statistics and I’m now using Power BI mainly for analytics but I’ll keep it in mind.

  • @gandhisunil3
    @gandhisunil3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Filter indication tip is incredible, will apply it in all my files
    Thanks a million for sharing this tip😊

    • @AccessAnalytic
      @AccessAnalytic  หลายเดือนก่อน

      You’re welcome. Glad to help

  • @LeePartington51
    @LeePartington51 29 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Thanks, Wyn. Added the filter let function to my favourite snippets today. Never thought about auto correct before 👍

  • @DinoDelight
    @DinoDelight หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thats great, the lock cell and the error will help massively, thank you

    • @AccessAnalytic
      @AccessAnalytic  หลายเดือนก่อน

      I appreciate you taking the time to let me know you found it useful

  • @GeertDelmulle
    @GeertDelmulle หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Thanks for the video, Wyn.
    Most of the tricks & techniques I’ve been using since years (next to the Clear Filter button I have the Reapply Filter button as well, BTW).
    But that last trick avoiding the Name Mgr duplication glitch is new to me: thanks for that!
    So sad, though, that we need to avoid Table Formula Nomenclature in the Name Mgr for that: that shouldn’t be!
    I wish MS would universally make arrays, array calculations (which is the same) and dynamic array references work wherever we can enter ranges. And that includes in the “*IFS” functions (looking at you SUMIFS, et al.).

  • @petecullan3113
    @petecullan3113 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thank you for the tips. A couple of those examples have driven me crazy!

  • @IvanCortinas_ES
    @IvanCortinas_ES หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great use of Autocorrect, Wyn. Thank you for this tutorial. That's very useful!

  • @teoxengineer
    @teoxengineer หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you for good presentation. 🙏🙏

    • @AccessAnalytic
      @AccessAnalytic  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks. Thanks for taking the time to leave a kind comment

  • @CAKimberlyLewis
    @CAKimberlyLewis 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    The Names! 😂 You got me! 🤣

    • @AccessAnalytic
      @AccessAnalytic  25 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I make my own fun 🤗

  • @rogeriolima2922
    @rogeriolima2922 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Fantastic! Greetings from Brazil!

  • @JackoKrauser
    @JackoKrauser หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great and informative for me
    I've noticed the Access Analytics tab on your videos and am intrigued by its tools and shortcuts. I was wondering if there's a previous video that covers these in more detail.

    • @AccessAnalytic
      @AccessAnalytic  หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Check this out:
      th-cam.com/video/8q6VfNC560M/w-d-xo.html
      I'm not 100% sure the Chat GPT buttons still work as things have changed so much since original recording and I use an older toolbar that doesn't have the Chat GPT section

  • @MrFredcailloux
    @MrFredcailloux หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Fabulous... these problems driven me also crasy!

  • @SaudiUnion-f5q
    @SaudiUnion-f5q หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    thank you for the great tips

  • @flyingHubby
    @flyingHubby หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you so much. The first (inconsistent formula) was so annoying. Until now. 💕

    • @AccessAnalytic
      @AccessAnalytic  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You’re welcome. Thanks for taking the time to leave a kind comment

  • @jrcryo
    @jrcryo 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Hello Win
    for dropdown menu when i use a table for the values, i write the formula =INDIRECT("tblName[columnName]")
    the formula for filtered table is gold

    • @AccessAnalytic
      @AccessAnalytic  26 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Yes, that is an option. I tend to avoid it as it breaks if the table or column is renamed.

  • @jeremynorbury
    @jeremynorbury หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    1. Those hidden formula could ALSO contain links to other workbooks - and I've had this show up and the links are nearly impossible to find...
    2. I completely agree on the anchoring a structured ref - I simply cannot remember this but I had put this down to age.
    3. I use clear filter many dozens of times per day - it's in position 1 in the quick access toolbar for me - thus ALT+1. I also like delete table rows as a quick access (ALT+4 for me).

    • @AccessAnalytic
      @AccessAnalytic  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thanks for the excellent thoughts / tips

  • @sledgehammer-productions
    @sledgehammer-productions หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Still a few shortcuts that my fingers refuse to remember (ctrl-F3 to name one).
    So my Christmas wishlist has "F4 equivalent for table columns" and "F4 equivalent for adding a #".
    I really have to rewatch this and make notes / cheat sheet!

    • @AccessAnalytic
      @AccessAnalytic  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Add your vote here feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/7e63b229-74bd-ed11-83ff-000d3a1ab7d1

  • @ExcelWithChris
    @ExcelWithChris หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Love the FILTER IS ON tip. Just added it to all my company files. The users keep forgetting the filters on and then phone me to say something is wrong in the file they cannot see all the lines!! THANKS!!!!

    • @AccessAnalytic
      @AccessAnalytic  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      😃 glad to help. Yep stopping others doing the wrong thing with your file can be a full time job!

  • @JonathanExcels
    @JonathanExcels หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Note: you also can't have formulas in the headings of a table. At the moment I can not remember why I was trying to do that, but I know I have run into that limitation a couple of times. The formulas get converted to values.

    • @AccessAnalytic
      @AccessAnalytic  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ah yes could point to note, thanks.

  • @barttitulaerexcelbart9400
    @barttitulaerexcelbart9400 29 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Thanks Wyn, why did I never knew ctrl-space before. One "hack" you could show next time is how you could show how the list is filtered. So show those values in Excel. You need an extra table for that. For Pivot Tables it is easy to harvest the values you selected in a slicer, but for tables it is not.

    • @AccessAnalytic
      @AccessAnalytic  29 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Cheers, I’ve not come across the technique to identify which filters have been applied to a table .

    • @barttitulaerexcelbart9400
      @barttitulaerexcelbart9400 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@AccessAnalytic Hi Wyn, I tried to send my solution for this to you via Linkedin, but then I saw I already sent it to you last time, maybe this message got lost? Anyway I hope you find it usefull....greetings Bart.

    • @AccessAnalytic
      @AccessAnalytic  25 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@barttitulaerexcelbart9400 I think I found it (back in January?)
      For a single column filter I'd do the following:
      1. Add a "Is Visible" helper column to the table
      =AGGREGATE(3,5,[@city])
      2. Write this formula to display the filtered items
      =TEXTJOIN(", ",, UNIQUE( FILTER(City[city], City[Is Visible]=1) ) )

  • @williamarthur4801
    @williamarthur4801 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    For locking vertically and horzontaly I usually end up using index so first number a a column;
    INDEX(Table1[[Number]:[Number]],2,1)

  • @vida1719
    @vida1719 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Copying sheets is so annoying with these pop up messages. Thanks for the solution! Hopefully Microsoft could fix this bug some time in future. Also, I noticed that if I share my file with other users, they tend to rename some names in the drop down list, but names do not change automatically in the main table, although green triangles appear in the cells.

    • @AccessAnalytic
      @AccessAnalytic  หลายเดือนก่อน

      You’re welcome. Would be good if you could choose! “ change all current selections to new name”

  • @DevN9007
    @DevN9007 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Wow incredibly useful

  • @asamwill4076
    @asamwill4076 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thanks

  • @MaureenPesch
    @MaureenPesch หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    OMG- I never knew how to get rid of the hidden formula. We always complained about the ghost in our file. Thank you!!!!!’

    • @AccessAnalytic
      @AccessAnalytic  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Glad to shed some light on the matter!

  • @muhammadtambawala6379
    @muhammadtambawala6379 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thanks, Wyn! Your video is very helpful.
    With the SUMIFS formula, in my case, both the department and sum range remain constant. While having the department remain constant is beneficial, the fixed sum range is quite frustrating. Do you have any suggestions on how to make it adjust so that when I copy the formula across columns, the sum range updates accordingly? I noticed it works perfectly in your example.

    • @AccessAnalytic
      @AccessAnalytic  27 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Cheers. You need to drag to make it change. Don’t use copy paste

    • @muhammadtambawala6379
      @muhammadtambawala6379 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      ​@@AccessAnalytic I just tried it and can confirm that dragging works. Thank you very much!

    • @AccessAnalytic
      @AccessAnalytic  26 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @muhammadtambawala6379 You’re welcome.

  • @johank4361
    @johank4361 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Pls get me a Formula to count meals (breakfasts, lunches & Diners) between 2 dates in different columns
    i.e
    20/11/2024 Diner to 24/11/24 Breakfast
    BF (Column)
    4nos
    Lunch (Column)
    3nos
    Diner (Column)
    4nos
    If you give me a solution i will be very greatful.

    • @AccessAnalytic
      @AccessAnalytic  25 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Hi, I'd recommend you post a screenshot and your question to one of these forums
      www.reddit.com/r/excel/
      techcommunity.microsoft.com/category/microsoft365/discussions/excelgeneral