Excel Shortcuts: Build A Quick Weekday Date List in Excel

Excel Shortcuts: Build A Quick Weekday Date List in Excel

Now that the holiday season is over (almost 2 weeks ago now) I’ve finally got myself back into a routine and I wanted to start off the year with a quick tip for those of you looking on how to build a list of weekday dates  for your planning purposes and to get the year started off right.  This simple trick can be used to build a quick calendar to record daily sales, production numbers, number of orders shipped etc.

You’ll notice that when using the auto fill option located in the bottom right hand corner of the current cell that you’ve highlighted, that as you drag the mouse over other cells, the dates automatically populate in chronological order.  The only problem here is that you only want to include weekdays and not all days of the week.  This post will show you how to easily and quickly only show the weekdays in the calendar that you’re building. (more…)

Excel Shortcut: Create Quick Name Ranges From Large Tables of Data Using Ctrl+Shift+F3

Excel Shortcut: Create Quick Name Ranges From Large Tables of Data Using Ctrl+Shift+F3

Build a Quick Set of Name Ranges for your Fields Using This Excel Shortcut

Let’s keep this short and sweet and under 60 seconds.

 

  • Type Ctrl+A to highlight your range of cells/table.
  • Once all cells including the column headers are highlighted, type Ctrl+Shift+F3.  This will bring up the following text box.  Because typically business intelligence software dumps the data into column format, you are going to want to select “Top Row” here which is where your field names are located (if they were on the left, bottom or right, you would select the option which you would want to name the range for). (more…)