Search engines do a lot more than immediately meets the eye. If you’re getting results that aren’t relevant, if you’re getting too many results, if you want to find something on a particular web site, or if you just want to do a quick calculation or measurement conversion, there are some pretty cool tricks that you can do. Some of these techniques will work in any search engine, but the coolest features work only on Google.
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A quick and simple way of finding the number of days, months or years between two dates is Excel’s secret DATEDIF function. When you type it in a worksheet, there’s no popup syntax help to indicate the function exists.
In partnership with Experts Exchange. The GoogleFinance function uses Google’s engine to insert financial data in your worksheet, like stock prices, mutual funds, and currency
In partnership with Experts Exchange. You can take an Excel sheet and place it on a PowerPoint slide with a link to the source or
In partnership with Experts Exchange. Excel’s Offset function, available in the last couple of versions for Windows and Mac, lets you create ranges that change
In partnership with Experts Exchange. Among the new functions currently in beta and soon to be released in the 365 editions of Excel are TAKE
