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How to Improve Your Excel Spreadsheets With Data Validation

Have you ever seen an Excel spreadsheet with a dropdown list in it and wondered how it was done? This is data validation. Data validation improves the data in your spreadsheets. It makes reporting much easier as there is no risk of typos and no risk of an entry not fitting into your criteria. In this blog we will take data validation a step further and look at how to make one drop-down list change its values depending on the choice made in a previous drop-down.

Excel Hints & Tips - Line Breaks in a Cell & Cell Formats

Sometimes you may want to add text in Excel that’s spread over multiple lines. Find out how to do this, or how to remove these, in this week’s blog by Happy trainer Ian Balboa.

Excel Hints & Tips - Calculating Age

You’d think that there would be an AGE function that worked out how many years since the anniversary by passing in a date. However, life is not that easy. Our trainer Ian Balboa explains step-by-step how to calculate how many years since an anniversary – both the easy way and the hard way.

How to Customise Your Excel Reports With Slicers

At Happy we talk a lot about how great Pivot Tables are — and Slicers make your Pivot Tables and reports even better. With Slicers, you can have one Pivot Table that switches between different categories through the click of a button. In this week's blog, Ian gives step-by-step instructions with how you can create your very first Slicer.