Showing posts with label Excel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Excel. Show all posts

Saturday, February 11, 2023

How to represent 0 at the beginning of any number in excel cell

Have you ever tried to do this in excel? 

If you try to add 0 at the beginning of any number in excel cell, that number will disappear and display remaining number. Following is the simple method to display zero at the beginning of any number of fixed lengths. 

If you want three digits fixed length number in any one column. For example, 022, 035, 080 in one column follow the below steps:

Fill that numbers in one column that will look like 22, 35, and 80. 

Select column, right click, and select format cell as shown below. 

In number Tab, select Custom. 

Make type field empty and fill 000 manually in that field. 

Press OK

and you can see, numbers are started with "0".

Monday, May 31, 2021

Data analysis with MS Excel

This article will explain you how excel features are used to data analysis process: 

1. Sort: You can apply sort to one or multiple cells to get expected data. You may sort data A-to-Z or Z-to-A manner. This is very simple and easy method for data analysis. Custom sort has advance features like sort by cell colour, font colour and cell icon.

2. Conditional Formatting: Conditional formatting is very rich functionality for data analysis in Excel that enables user to highlight cells with different colours, depending on the cell's value/percent.  By applying conditional formatting to your data, you can quickly identify variances in a range of values with a quick glance. Following example will give quick answer about high temperature value.

3. Filter:  Filter your data in excel by certain criteria to get expected output. Filtered data displays only the rows that meet criteria that you specify and hides rows that you don't want displayed. You can apply filter to multiple columns at a timeAfter you filter data, you can copy, find, edit, format, chart, and print the subset of filtered data without rearranging or moving it.

4. ChartsA picture is equal to thousand words so generating chart with a sheet full of numbers is easy to understand. This is very useful and easy tools for data analysis and to create visualizations. There are so many different charts we can create for data analysis.

5. Tables: Table will allow you to analyse data easily and quickly.
6. Pivot Tables: Pivot Table is very powerful and easy to use data analysis tool in excel. You can extract information from rows and columns by inserting pivot on that data.  

7. Analysis ToolPak: This is an excel add-in program used to data analysis for statistical and engineering data analysis.
8. Solver: 
Excel is having one more tool which is called solver. This uses techniques from the operations research to find optimal solutions for all kind of decision problems.