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If your Excel application is crashing or causing issues, you can try opening it in the ‘Safe Mode’. When you open Excel in safe mode, it disables features such as add-ins and custom settings, which helps you troubleshoot and identify the issues. In this quick guide, I will show you two easy ways to open … Read more
Need to find out which version of Microsoft Excel you have? It’s pretty easy to do and only takes a few clicks. Whether you’re fixing an issue, installing an add-on, or just curious, it’s good to know your Excel version. Knowing your Excel version also helps when you’re working with other people who have different … Read more
One formatting option you can use when you want to highlight a specific text or cell is the underline option. As the name suggests, it applies an underline below some text in a cell or the entire cell. In this article, I will cover the different types of underlines in Excel (single, double, single accounting, … Read more
Removing duplicates is a common task for most data workers. While in most cases, you would be working on removing duplicates from a range of cells, sometimes, you may need to remove duplicates from a cell. For example, below, I have a dataset with duplicate values in each cell and I want to remove the … Read more
For VMware Workstation Pro kernel modules to load on UEFI Secure Boot enabled Linux systems, you must sign them manually. Unsigned VMware Workstation Pro kernel modules won’t load, resulting in VMware Workstation Pro services failing to start. As you can see, VMware Workstation Pro services failed to start after the VMware Workstation Pro kernel modules … Read more
Once the VMware Workstation Pro desktop virtualization software (Type-II hypervisor) is installed on your Ubuntu/Debian system, you must compile the VMware Workstation Pro kernel modules for your Ubuntu/Debian system for it to work. In this article, I will show you how to compile the VMware Workstation Pro kernel modules on Ubuntu/Debian. I will also discuss … Read more
Remove asterisk (*) symbol In Excel is a little tricky as it’s a wildcard character and you cannot just use fine and replace to remove an ace risk symbol. But nothing to worry about – I’ll tell you a simple methods to quickly remove all the asterisk symbols from your data set using the Find … Read more
Dates are stored as numbers in the backend in Excel and can easily be sorted. But what if you want to sort dates by month (irrespective of the year value)? For example, below, I have the birthday dates for some people, and I want to sort and get all the January birthdays together, all the … Read more
The dd command, or data duplicator, is a robust and versatile utility famous for its disk manipulation features. While its primary purpose is to create disk images, it also lets you clone data, convert file formats, take backups, and more. Whether you’re a Linux beginner or an experienced user, understanding the various applications of the … Read more
It’s not uncommon for many people to protect worksheets in their Excel files and then forget the password. It has happened to me many times, and every now and then, I have people sending me their Excel files asking how to unlock the sheet without the password. The good news is that Excel password protection … Read more