The Grid & Formula blog
Free, plain-English Excel guides for UK grads and interns on their first corporate job. The stuff nobody taught you at uni.
What to do when your manager sends a "quick" Excel task
Your manager messages at 4:47pm on a Friday. "Just a quick vlookup, easy." The 4-step survival method, the three formulas that solve 80% of these requests, and the bigger lesson nobody tells you on day one.
Formulas Under PressureFix every common Excel error in 10 seconds
What #N/A, #REF!, #VALUE!, #DIV/0!, #NAME? and ##### actually mean — and the one-minute fix for each. Plus the summary reference table you can pin to your second monitor.
Shortcuts & SpeedFlash Fill: the Excel trick most graduates have never seen
One keystroke. Splits 2,400 names into first and last in four seconds. Builds email addresses, cleans phone numbers, extracts UK postcodes. Most grads have never heard of it.
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