What if you could find out whether a number in your Excel data set is prime or not in less than 5 steps? We will tell you how in this tutorial, but first, let us understand what a prime number is. A prime number is a number which is divisible only by 1 and itself, and the number 1 is not a prime number. Applying this simple definition, you can use the formula described in the steps to determine if a number is indeed a prime number or not. Array Formula For Checking Prime Numbers An array formula ... Read More

Are you looking for a simple and quick way to find if the numbers in your data set are integers or not? Well, if you are using Microsoft Excel, the answer is here! An integer is a whole number that can be positive, negative, or 0 but cannot be a fractional number. There are formulas in Excel that help professionals identify the integers in data sets. In this article, we explain two techniques and how to use them. Technique 1: Using the INT Function With Excel's INT function =INT(), you can find the integer fraction of a number, and ... Read More

When it comes to text in MS Excel, one of the most commonly required tasks is to capitalize the first letters in the cells if it contains names, tasks, products, places, or anything else. Unlike Microsoft Word, Excel does not offer the Change Case button, which allows the capitalization of texts. Human errors, such as not capitalizing the relevant letters in the spreadsheet, are common when entering a lot of data. When this happens, one wonders how to quickly check whether a certain cell has a capital letter in the first letter. In this tutorial, we teach how to ... Read More

Planning to send emails but worried some addresses may be entered incorrectly in your spreadsheet? When mailing your clients, you may often see more than one invalid email. Thanks to Microsoft Excel, you can identify these email addresses and correct them as required. This process is also known as data cleansing. Cleaning your data ensures that your spreadsheet only contains relevant information so you can easily move on to the next task. The goal is to repair any data that is wrong, incomplete, poorly structured, duplicated, or even unrelated to the data set's mission. Find Invalid Email Address ... Read More

Often there comes a spreadsheet where you would need to make a preliminary check to see if any row is hidden. Fear not; it is very easy to check. Hiding rows is an interesting feature of MS Excel where not relevant information can be concealed in a spreadsheet without deleting them forever. While working on the file, your teammates may have concealed rows to optimize their visual perspective of the data by removing unnecessary rows, computations, or anything else that might reduce the file's readability. In this tutorial, we explain how to identify hidden rows in your excel ... Read More

There are cases when we need to compare multiple sheets for consolidating the data in a single sheet against similar entries. Manually this task may need huge manpower as well as time. On the other side the same data can be consolidated by using a one or two formulas and copying the same in all respective sheets. In this article, we will be working on the following formulas for identifying one list against another. =VLOOKUP(lookup_value, table_array, column_index_number, [range_lookup]) =MATCH(lookup_value, lookup_array, [match_type]) Check one list against another using VLOOKUP function Step 1 − We have taken the sample data ... Read More

If we have a huge data where hyperlinks have been scattered throughout the worksheet, then it becomes a tedious task to find the hyperlinks and external references. This tutorial will help a user to find the hyperlinks available in a worksheet in the following scenarios − Find all the hyperlinks in Excel Find all the hyperlinks linked to a specific text Find all hyperlink locations with VBA Code Find All Hyperlinks in Excel Step 1 − A sample worksheet has been shown below with scattered hyperlinks. Step 2 − Please note that, using Find and Replace feature, ... Read More

Excel has a bunch of formulas and data analysts use this application to prepare various reports and dashboards. To support that analysis this article will help an excel user to identify all the cells whose values either starts with a number or an alphabet from a collection of dataset. We will identify these cells using the combination of following formulas. IF function ISERR function Left function Check if first character in a cell is a number or a letter The following formulas can be used to check if the first character of a cell is number or a ... Read More

If we have a dataset in which we need to check if there are any cell values or text which is not required or inappropriate, then the same can be identified in seconds using an excel function. There are many functions through which we can identify specific set of text in cell values of the complete dataset. Let’s have a look at the formulas and example and learn how to implement the same in a dataset. Check if dataset contains one or more values from a specific list Check if dataset contains one or more values ... Read More

When we have a list of entries in excel file and need to identify if there are some entities starting with a specific letter of special character, then looking at each value and counting will be a tedious task to do. This article will help you to find those entities using a formula without looking at each value of the list. Searching Cells containing Specific Character using Formula Searching the cells starting with a specific character Let’s take an example of the following data − Now, if you want to check the cells begin with the character “$” then ... Read More