My Spreadsheet Lab

The site is about Microsoft Excel.

  • Home
  • Templates
  • Excel Blog
  • About Me
  • Contact Kevin

3 Newly Added Charts in Excel 2019 You Must Learn to Create

posted in Tips on April 30, 2019 by Kevin Lehrbass 11 Comments

This Guest Post is contributed by Aprajita Sharma from ExcelChamps.   Learn about 3 new charts available in Excel 2019 (or with a Office 365 subscription). Continue reading →

Partial Match Count with a Condition

posted in Formula or VBA, Tips on April 22, 2019 by Kevin Lehrbass 3 Comments

Once again I discovered a formula that I had written down in a notebook. What is it doing? Is there an easier way to solve this? Continue reading →

Sorted Data Validation List

posted in Solutions, Tips on April 16, 2019 by Kevin Lehrbass 6 Comments

This post from ExcelFORO explains how to use VBA to create a sorted data validation list. It’s a great solution! Are there other ways to solve this? Continue reading →

Weighted Average

posted in Solutions, Tips on April 9, 2019 by Kevin Lehrbass 0 Comments

I’ll show you the weighted average formula, how it calculates, and I’ll prove that the answer is correct! Continue reading →

Countifs confirms Vlookup

posted in Tips on April 9, 2019 by Kevin Lehrbass 0 Comments

So many times vlookup (or index & match) saves the day and gets your answer!  ….wait…are you sure it’s correct??? Read this post to see why you should use countifs to confirm your vlookup. Continue reading →

CAGR in Microsoft Excel

posted in Formulas on April 3, 2019 by Kevin Lehrbass 0 Comments

Recently I was asked “How can you prove that the CAGR answer is correct?“. In this post I’ll show you how to verify the CAGR result. I’ll also review CAGR basics and pitfalls. Continue reading →

Extract Largest Number (Power Query & Flash Fill solutions)

posted in Challenges, Get & Transform on March 26, 2019 by Kevin Lehrbass 8 Comments

In a recent post I audited my colleague’s amazing array formula. It extracted the largest number from as420lkjs09nsdk2324lkjsd099 See other solutions suggested by YouTube viewers! Continue reading →

unstacking-data-with-chandeep/

posted in Challenges on March 21, 2019 by Kevin Lehrbass 0 Comments

I saw Chandeep’s Data Cleanup Challenge and it looked like fun. Others solved it using Power Query (some amazing solutions) but I used good ol’ fashioned formulas! Continue reading →

Largest Number Inside Alphanumeric String

posted in Auditing, Formula or VBA on March 3, 2019 by Kevin Lehrbass 13 Comments

A friend shared this challenge: extract the largest number from this text  as420lkjs09nsdk2324lkjsd099 !  The answer is 2324. How do we solve this? Formulas? VBA? Continue reading →

Valentine’s Day in Microsoft Excel

posted in Macros (vba) on February 12, 2019 by Kevin Lehrbass 0 Comments

How can you improve your VBA skills? Build something! Anything! Even if it’s ridiculous. I needed to practice and ended up creating a robot and a bunch of random style hearts! 🙂 Continue reading →

← Older posts
Newer posts →

Sometimes I write a practical 'how to' post and other times I explore a crazy idea and build something unique. I love working with data in Microsoft Excel!

Kevin Lehrbass

Newsletter