Have you ever stared at a colorful Excel spreadsheet, wondering how to quickly calculate totals or counts based on cell colors? It’s a common frustration for anyone managing large datasets. While ...

How to easily sum values by a cell’s background color in Excel Your email has been sent Color is a great visual tool in most any sheet. That’s why so many of Excel’s built-in features include color.

For many years, I used the SUBTOTAL function in Microsoft Excel to create easily visible subtotals at the top of my worksheets. However, when I encountered AGGREGATE, this became my go-to function for ...

Conditional formatting tricks: Sum values in Excel by cell color Your email has been sent When you think VBA code is your only hope, try combing built-it conditional formatting tools. You might just ...

Excel's Subtotal command allows you to quickly create subtotals in your sorted data, and then collapse the view to to show only the new subtotal rows. When you try to copy the subtotals by themselves, ...

Excel allows defined functions to be executed in Worksheets by a user. Instead of a formula based on the color of a cell, it is better to write a function that can detect the color of the cell and ...

Q. Could you explain how the AGGREGATE function works in Excel? A. AGGREGATE is possibly the most versatile function in Excel. Think of it as an advanced version of the SUBTOTAL function that offers ...

Q. I receive regular spreadsheets with all of our company’s accounts, departments, employees, and balances, and I have to subtotal the amounts by accounts, departments, etc. I have been manually doing ...