Excel cheat sheet:

1. Ctrl+N for selecting a new blank spreadsheet.

 Absolute referencing is marked by a dollar sign ($). For example, =$A$10 has absolute
referencing for both the column and the row value
 Relative references (which is what you normally do, e.g. “=A10”) will change anytime
the formula is copied and pasted. They are in relation to where the referenced cell is
located. For example if you copied “=A10” to the cell to the right it would become
“=B10”. With absolute referencing “=$A$10” copied to the cell to the right would
remain “=$A$10”. But if you copied $A10 to the cell below, it would change to $A11
because the row value isn't an absolute reference.
 Absolute references will not change when you copy and paste the formula in a different
cell. The cell being referenced is always the same.
 To easily switch between absolute and relative referencing in the formula bar, highlight
the reference you want to change and press the F4 key; for example, if you want to
change the absolute reference, $A$10, in your formula to a relative reference, A10,
highlight $A$10 in the formula bar and then press the F4 key to make the change.

Procedures:

1. Div error procedure:

To fix div! error and to turn it into some other value like not applicable or no result use below formula:

=IFERROR( equation formula ex: a2/b2 or a2*b2 or a2+b2, “not applicable” or “no result”)

This will enable the cell to shoe not applicant=ble or no result instead of div! error.

2. Absolute referencing:
Absolute reference can be worked with the row and column as well. For example there are five values
from b2 to b6 and there is one value in E5. Now. IF we want to multiply values is b2 to b6 with only the
value in E5 in ROWS from c2 to c6 we should create a formula in c2 using absolute referencing.

The formula would be =b2*E$5 or =b2*$E$5

Then if we drag the fill cell from c2 to c6 then excel will automatically multiply all the values in b3 to b6
with e5 in the cells within rows from c3 to c6.

Now, this only works for rows. We need values from the columns to multiply, sum, subtract, or do any
mathematical procedure with the absolute referenced cell. For example, if we tried to do the before
calculation in columns from c6 to G6 it wouldn’t work after c6 because we have no value in c2, d2, e2,
f2! In c6 the multiplication will occur but in c7 the referenced cell e5 will be multiplied by c2 rather than
b3 because rows' absolute referenced values cannot be put in columns. To do this we will need values in
c2 to f2 as well. Now, if we put values in c2 to f2 then the absolute referenced cell (e5) will be multiplied
with columns cells from b2 to f2! Then the formula would be

: =b2*$E5 or =b2*$E$5

(ie: the $ must be before the cell name when working in columns and before number name when working
with rows)
3. Conditional formatting procedure:
Conditional formatting can be used to highlight cells a different color based on their contents.
This feature can be extremely helpful when you want to locate all errors in a large spreadsheet.
For example, using conditional formatting, you can highlight in yellow all cells that contain an
error, and then work to fix them.

Conditional formatting in Microsoft Excel

To set up conditional formatting in Microsoft Excel to highlight all cells in a spreadsheet that
contain errors, do the following:

1. Click the gray triangle above row number 1 and to the left of Column A to select all cells
in the spreadsheet.
2. From the main menu, click Home, and then click Conditional Formatting to
select Highlight Cell Rules > More Rules.
3. For Select a Rule Type, choose Use a formula to determine which
cells to format.
4. For Format values where this formula is true, enter =ISERROR(A1).
5. Click the Format button, select the Fill tab, select yellow (or any other color), and
then click OK.
6. Click OK to close the format rule window.
To remove conditional formatting, click Home and select Conditional Formatting,
and then click Manage Rules. Locate the format rule in the list, click Delete Rule, and
then click OK.

4.
Functions:
 1. Sum function:
Sum function is used to add a large number of data together across a large number of rows and columns.
To use this type the formula: =SUM( ‘the first row of the desired columns’: ‘the last row of the desired
last columns’)

For example: if we wanted to sum up all the numbers from column b up to column e then we would select
the first row of column b (b2) and then select the last row of column e (e4). Then if we apply the formula
it will automatically sum up all the numbers even the ones in b2,b3,b4,d2,d3,d4,e2,e3 etc.

2. Average function:
It works in a similar principle as the above-mentioned function, at least, the selection process is similar.
To do this we use the formula: =AVERAGE( ‘the first row of the desired columns’: ‘the last row of the
desired last columns’) ex: =AVERAGE(b2:E4)

3. Highest function:
Similarly as before! The formula is: =MAX(b2:E4)

4. Lowest function:
similar to before! The formula is: =MIN(b2:E4)

5. TEXT function:
Text function is used to convert a numerical value into a text value. There are many formats that you may
have to use while using this function. Some usage of it is written below.

>Leading zeros: excel doesn’t count zeros before a number within cells so to include zeros use this
formula: =text(value, “number of zeros and the numerical points for the numbers in the cells”)

For example: to turn 356780 to 000356780 we use the formula: =text(cell number of 356780,
“00000000”) here the extra pair of zeros at the front will input the leading zeros and the rest of the six
zeros indicate the numerical points of the number 356780. Finally, the number will become 00356780.

>Separating thousand: this formula with text function helps define large numbers in several formats.

~for thousand separator: let’s say we have a value 123456 and we want it to be separated by thousand
numerical value, then formula would be =text(cell number of 123456, “#,###”) then the number would
turn into 123,456.

~for extra decimal point and a pair of zeros: for the number 123456 the formula would be =text(cell
number of 123456, “0,000.00”) this would turn the number into 123456.00.

~to exclude zeros: if the number was 12345600

This will exclude the zeros at last and will tur the number into 123456

~to turn into decimal: if the number was 123456

Formula: =text(cell number of the umber, “0.0,,”)

Result: 0.1

>Date conversion:

>am, pm conversion:

>percentages:
>Fractions:

> Scientific notations:

>special formats: