Excel 365
Creating Your Own Menu
Creating custom menus in Excel is a funny feature you can use to create groups of the options you use
most often and then plug them into the menu you name and use yourself.
How to generate series of dates
Often you'll want to insert a series of dates into a worksheet. The most efficient way to enter a series of dates doesn't require any formulas - just use Excel's AutoFill feature.
Using Solver
The Solver tool allows you to specify multiple adjustable cells and constraints on the values that the adjustable cells can have, generate a solution that maximizes or minimizes a particular worksheet cell, generate multiple solutions to a problem.
Goal Seeking
Goal seeking is a useful feature that works in conjunction with your formulas. If you know what a formula result should be, Excel can tell you which values of one or more input cells you need to produce that result.
Calculating the difference between two time stamps
Because timestamps are represented as serial numbers, you can subtract the earlier time from the later time
to get the difference.
Calculating the number of work days between two dates
When calculating the difference between two dates, you may want to exclude weekends and holidays.
Increase the number of Undo levels in Excel
By default, the number of Undo levels in Excel for Microsoft 365 is 100. You can increase or decrease this number if it's necessary.
Creating Subtotals
Excel's ability to create automatic subtotals is a handy feature that can save you a great deal of time.
Using advanced filtering
In addition to manual data filtering, Excel enables fully automated filtering based on data from the specified range of cells. Before using the advanced filtering feature, you must set up a criteria range. A criteria range is a designated range on a worksheet that conforms to specific requirements.
How to turn off Start screen
When you first start most of the Microsoft 365 applications, you'll see a new feature called the Start
screen.