If you’re creating a Google Sheets spreadsheet for someone else to use, and you want that person to easily find parts of your data, you can use named ranges to change the column or row names. In this article, I will guide you to do so.

What are Named Ranges?

Named ranges allows you to rename columns or rows of a group of cells, an entire column or row. Renaming a column or row doesn’t overwrite the original cell references (A1, A2,..), but it makes it easier to refer to these cells (and the data within them) when you add formulas new.

Using Name Box

The fastest way to rename a column or row in a Google Sheet is to use the Name Box. This is the cell to the left of the formula bar, showing you cell references or the currently selected cells in your spreadsheet.

First, open Google Sheets and select a new column or row. Then, replace the existing cell reference in the Name box with a new name, and then press the Enter key to save the column or row name.

Google Sheet will apply the new name to your column or row immediately. You can view a list of available name ranges by clicking the down arrow button located to the right of the name box.

A list of named cells, including their original cell references, will appear in the list below.

You can click on any name ranges to select those cells, or click “Manage Named Ranges” to make changes to existing name ranges.

Another way to rename columns or rows is to use the Name Range menu. This menu allows you to manage existing name ranges as well as create new name ranges.

Add new name range

First, open a Google Sheet and select the row or column you want to rename. Then right click on the selected cells and select “Define The Named Range”.

The “Named Ranges” menu will appear as a panel on the right. Enter your chosen name in the first box. You can also change the selected column, row, or range of cells by changing the underlying cell reference.

Edit or delete Name Range

To edit or delete the name range, right-click any cell in the spreadsheet and select “Define Named Range”. You will see a list of available name ranges in the right panel. Hover over the name range you want and press the “Edit” button.

You can then make changes to the name range (including changing the name and cell range). If you want to delete the named range, press the “Remove” button.

You need to confirm your choice — press “Remove” in the dialog box to confirm.

Using Name Range in Google Sheet

With the newly added name range, you can now refer to this name range elsewhere in a new formula. For example, if you name your range “CellData”, you can find the average of the values ​​in those cells by using the following formula:

=MEDIAN(CellData)

Name range (CellData) replaces cell references with columns, rows, or ranges of cells in your formula. For example, if CellData is a name range of all the cells in column A, you can use A:A or CellData to refer to those cells.

Using a name range allows you to quickly refer to the data you want to use without requiring reference to the original cells. Plus, if you don’t use Google Sheets, you can learn 20 Excel tricks that turn you into an expert here.

Welcome back to the Basic Excel Series for Beginners. Today I will show you how to hide rows and columns in Excel to make it easier to control information.

Hide Rows or Columns

Step 1: Select 1 column

Step 2: Right-click and select Hide

Result

Show Column / Row

Step 1: Select 2 columns next to the hidden column

Step 2: Right click and select Unhide

Result:

Hide/Show with Multiple Columns/Lines

With hide multiple Columns/Lines

Step 1: Select the columns to be hidden (can use the CTRL key to select multiple columns that are not close to each other)

Step 2: Right-click and select Hide

Result

Show Multiple Columns / Rows

Step 1: Select all Columns/Rows

Step 2: Right click and select Unhide

Result

Tips for Hiding Information in Excel

Hide 1 group (Group)

Step 1: Select the columns to group together

Step 2: Go to Data, Select Group

Step 3: To hide the group, press the minus sign at the top

Hide any interval

Step 1: select a range to hide

Step 2: Right-click and select Format Cells

Step 3: In the Category section, select Custom

Step 4: Type in Type : ;;;

Step 5: Click OK

Result

So I just guided you about Hide columns and rows in Excel. If you have any questions about this part, please leave a comment to let me know

Hello friends! Welcome back to the basic Excel tutorial for beginners. With today’s post, I would like to introduce another feature of Excel Transpose

So what is Transpose?

Transpose is how you change its shape. In Excel it is changing the dimension of 1 Range. For example: What if you have a series of horizontal numbers that you want to convert to vertical. Transpose will help you do that.

Transpose User Manual

Transpose with Special Paste

Step 1: Select range from A1:C1

Step 2: Right click and select copy

Step 3: Select cell E2

Step 4: Right click and select Paste special

Step 5: Check the box Transpose

Step 6: Click OK

Transpose using Function

Step 1: Select the range to fill

Step 2: Write =TRANSPOSE(

Step 3: Select range A1:C1

Step 4: Press CTRL + SHIFT + ENTER key combination.

Transpose with null cell

Example: Cell C4 has no value and the Transpose statement converts the blank to value = 0 (cell G3)

So we just need to add an If statement so that when we encounter a cell with no value, it returns a null value for the corresponding cell

Transpose has a link

Step 1: Select Range A1:E2

Step 2: Right-click and select Copy

Step 3: Select cell A4

Step 4: Right click and select Paste special

Step 5: Select Paste link

Step 6: select range A4:E5 and change all = signs to xxx

Step 7: Do the same Transpose above

Step 8: Replace the xxx signs with =

So I just finished the tutorial on Transpose. If you have any questions, please leave a comment to let me know

In this article, I will show you how to delete blank rows or rows that contain blank cells in Excel.

How to delete blank rows in Excel

first. On the Home tab, in the Editing group, click Find & Select.

2. Click Go To Special.

3. Select Blanks and click OK.

Excel will automatically select blank cells.

4. On the Home tab, in the Cells group, click Delete.

5. Click Delete Sheet Rows.

Result:

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To quickly insert a row in Excel, use the keyboard shortcut CTRL SHIFT +. To quickly insert multiple rows, select multiple rows and use the same keyboard shortcut as above.

How to insert rows in Excel

1. Select a row.

2. Right-click, select Insert.

Result:

Note: instead of doing step 2, use the keyboard shortcut CTRL SHIFT +.

Insert multiple rows

1. Select multiple rows.

2. Press CTRL SHIFT +.

Result:

Insert cell

Excel displays the Insert Cells dialog box if you did not select a row or rows before using the CTRL SHIFT + keyboard shortcut.

1. Select cell A3.

2. Press CTRL SHIFT +.

3a. Excel automatically selects “Shift cells down”. Click OK.

Result:

3b. To insert a row, select “Entire row” and click OK.

Result:

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To quickly delete a row in Excel, select a row and use the keyboard shortcut CTRL – (minus sign). To quickly delete multiple rows, select multiple rows and use the same keyboard shortcut above.

How to delete rows in Excel

1. Select a row.

2. Right-click, then click Delete.

Result:

Note: instead of doing step 2, use the shortcut CTRL – (minus sign).

Delete multiple rows

1. Select multiple rows.

2. Press CTRL – (minus sign). Result:

Delete cell

Excel displays the Delete Cells dialog box if you do not select a row or rows before using the keyboard shortcut CTRL – (minus sign).

1. Select cell A3.

2. Press CTRL – (minus sign).

3a. Excel automatically selects “Shift cells up”. Click OK.

Result:

3b. To delete a row, select “Entire row” and click OK.

Result:

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This article will guide you to add color to rows in Excel.

Adding Color to Rows

1. Select range

2. On the Home Tab, Select Conditional Formatting\

3. Select New Rule

4. Select Use a formula to determine which cells to format

5. Enter the formula =MOD(ROW(),2)

6. Select formatting style and click OK

Result

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When working with a large spreadsheet, it can be difficult to see specific data without scrolling continuously. In Google Sheetsyou can group rows and columns, and then collapse and expand them as needed.

Group rows or columns in Google Sheets

Select the rows or columns that you want to group. Then right click and group for the rows or columns you selected. Here, I’m grouping rows from 2 to 11.

You can right-click or click the arrow in one of the column headers to select Group. Here, I am grouping columns from B to E.

After grouping rows, columns, or both, you’ll see a minus sign displayed in the shaded area to the left for rows or at the top for columns. Click the minus sign to collapse the group.

The minus sign then transforms into a plus sign. To expand the group again, click the plus sign.

Expand or collapse all groups of rows or columns

If you set up multiple groups of rows or columns in your worksheet, you don’t need to click the plus and minus signs individually to expand or collapse each group.

Right-click any plus or minus sign for a group. Then, select “Expand All Row/Column Groups” or “Collapse All Row/Column Groups”.

This allows you to expand or collapse all your groups of rows or columns in one click.

Ungroup rows or columns in Google Sheets

When you’re done using grouping to see your data better, you can easily ungroup rows or columns.

For rows, do one of the following:

• Select the rows, right click and select Ungroup.
• Right-click the plus or minus sign for the row group and select “Remove Group”.

For columns, do one of the following:

• Select columns, right click and select Ungroup.
• Right click on the plus or minus sign for the column group and select “Remove Group”.
• Select the columns, click one of the column headers and select Ungroup.

After you ungroup rows or columns, the plus and minus signs along with the shaded area disappear.

Alternatively, you can also rename rows or columns in Google Sheet here.