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ExcelTips (menu) for 3 January 2026

Dates and times
Converting UTC Times to Local Times

Dates and times are often standardized on UTC time, which is analogous to GMT times. How to convert such times to your local time is a relatively simple process, once you know how your local time zone relates to GMT.

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Powerful spreadsheets
Jumping to a Specific Worksheet

Want to make fast work of moving from one worksheet to another? Here's how to do the task when you have a lot of worksheets in your workbook.

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Enhance Your Excel Skills with Macros

Macros are a great way to increase your productivity with Excel by making the program work the way you want it to work. Discover the true power behind macros; ExcelTips: The Macros puts almost 800 pages of macro-focused information at your fingertips. Discover more...

 
Excel can calculate at lightening speed
Removing All Formatting

Getting rid of formatting from a cell or group of cells can be done using several different techniques. This tip describes the techniques available to you.

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Formulas
Splitting Cells by Case

Excel provides several different ways that you can split apart the contents of a cell. One way it doesn't provide is to split cells based upon the case of the text within the cell. This tip presents several formulaic and programmatic approaches to pulling apart text strings based on character case.

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