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26. Excel Tricks Every Analyst Should Know

Friends, these are the small moves that experienced analysts make without thinking: fill blanks in one go, clean text, lock a rate, flag duplicates, highlight rows, show shares in a PivotTable, and send values instead of formulas. Thirty-two tricks, each with a tiny before and after.

What you will learn in this module

  • Enter and fill data faster (Ctrl+Enter, fill blanks, Flash Fill, weekday series)
  • Clean imported data (TRIM, VALUE, Remove Duplicates, Text to Columns)
  • Select, find and freeze without dragging
  • Write safer formulas (F4, Evaluate Formula, IFERROR, XLOOKUP messages)
  • Format for reading (row highlights, Center Across Selection, lakh format)
  • Summarise and share (Total Row, custom sort, % of total, Paste Values, Transpose)

Live story: Thirty minutes saved every day

Suppose Zoya spends forty minutes every morning cleaning the Blinkit export before she can start her report. After learning eight of these tricks she does the same cleaning in ten minutes, and the numbers match better because nothing is retyped.

All numbers in this story are fictional practice data.

Fictional practice data

Every name, number and company detail in this module is made up for class. It is not the data of Blinkit, Amazon or any real firm.

Concepts in this chapter

  1. 26.1Fast Data Entry Tricks
  2. 26.2Data Cleaning Tricks
  3. 26.3Selecting and Navigating Tricks
  4. 26.4Formula Tricks
  5. 26.5Lookup and Logic Tricks
  6. 26.6Formatting Tricks
  7. 26.7Table, Sorting and PivotTable Tricks
  8. 26.8Checking and Sharing Tricks

Review and practice

  1. ★Practice and Answer Key: Clean and Summarise a Messy Export

The chapter recap is at the end of the last concept page.

Quick revision cards

Quick revision

Revise this chapter in two minutes. Save the cards on your phone or download them as PNG files. All names and numbers are made up for practice.

Revision card: Analyst tricks: fill blanks, Ctrl+Enter, paste values. Example data table with Fill each blank with the value above: A3, A4 = Pune; A6 = Nashik; Type 0 into B2:B6 at once: 5 cells filled; Keep results, drop the formulas: fixed values.
Card 1 of 2: Analyst tricks: fill blanks, Ctrl+Enter, paste values · Download PNG
Revision card: More quick tricks. Covers New line in a cell; Fill down to the last row; Jump to the data edge; Select to the edge; Check a formula step by step; Find all errors. With a photo of Ravindra Bagale and a short tip.
Card 2 of 2: More quick tricks · Download PNG

More cards for every chapter: Ravi Sir's Cards.