40 Microsoft Excel Interview Questions and Answers (2024)
40 Microsoft Excel Interview Questions and Answers (2024)
40 Microsoft Excel Interview Questions and Answers (2024)
Answers (2024)
By : Susan Gipson Updated December 8, 2023
Table of Contents:
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2) What is ribbon?
Ribbon refers to the topmost area of the application that contains menu items and
toolbars available in MS-Excel. Ribbon can be shown/hidden using CTRL+F1. The
ribbon runs on the top of the application and is the replacement for the toolbars
and menus. The ribbons have various tabs on the top, and each tab has its own
group of commands.
Parentheses or Brackets
Exponent
Multiplication
Division
Addition
Subtraction
11) How can you sum up the Rows and Column number quickly in the
Excel sheet?
By using SUM function, you can get the total sum of the rows and columns, in an
Excel worksheet.
12) Explain few useful functions in Excel.
Following are the functions available in Excel for manipulating the data:
13) What does a red triangle at the top right of a cell indicate?
The red triangle indicates that some comment is associated with the cell. Hover the
mouse over it, and you can read the full comment.
18) What are three report formats that are available in Excel?
Following are the types of report formats
Compact
Report
Tabular
21) Which event do you use to check whether the Pivot Table is
modified or not?
To check whether the pivot table is modified or not we use “PivotTableUpdate” in
worksheet containing the pivot table.
24) What could you do to stop the pivot table from loosing the
column width upon refreshing?
Format loss in a pivot table can be stopped simply by changing the pivot table
options. Under the “Pivot Table Options” turn on the “Enable Preserve Formatting”
and disable “Auto Format” option.
SUBSTITUTE(A2,”9″,”8″,1) =>Guru89,Guru99
SUBSTITUTE(A2,”9″,”8″,2) =>Guru88,Guru99
SUBSTITUTE(A2,”9″,”9″) =>Guru99,Guru99
The REPLACE function swaps part of the text string with another set of text.
REPLACE(A2,5,1,”00″) =>Guru009
COUNTA or Count All is used to count any cell value containing numbers, text,
logical values, etc. any type of value excluding blanks.
Example: For example, you select the cell, and you want to display that cell as
“Greater than five,” when value is true (=5 or 5) and “less than five” when value is
false (<5). For that by using IF condition you can display result.
31) How can you apply the same formatting to every sheet in a
workbook in MS-Excel?
Right Click ‘Worksheet tab’ > Choose ‘Select All Sheets’. Now any formatting done
will be applied to the whole workbook. To apply to a particular group of sheets,
select only those sheets that need formatting.
Fill as the name suggests, fill the cell with same text repetitively.
Ab abababababababab ab
A aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa A
33) To move to the previous worksheet and next sheet, what keys will
you press?
To move to the previous worksheet, you will use the keys Ctrl + PgUp, and to move
to the next sheet you will use keys Ctrl + PgDown.
34) What filter will you use, if you want more than two conditions or if
you want to analyze the list using database function?
You will use Advanced Criteria Filter, to analyze the list or if more than two
conditions should be tested.
36) Which function is used to determine the day of the week for a
date?
WEEKDAY () returns the day of the week for a particular date counting from Sunday.
WEEKDAY(A1,1) =>6
Example: You are buying a new car and want to calculate the exact amount of tax
that will be levied on it then you can use the “What If” function. For instance, there
are three cells A4,B4, and C4. First cell says about the amount, the second cell will
tell about the percentage (7.5%) of tax and the final cell will calculate the exact
amount of tax.
39) How can you disable the automating sorting in pivot tables?
To disable the automating sorting in pivot tables,
Go to > “More Sort Options”> Right Click “Pivot table” > Select “Sort” menu > Select
“More Options” > Deselect the “Sort automatically when the report is created.”
Example: If you have two cells, A1 and A2, and the value you put in those two cells
are >5 and you want result should display as ‘TRUE’ in cell B1 if value>5, and ‘False’
if any of those values<5. You can use AND function to do that.
This detailed MS Excel interview questions pdf will help you to clear the doubts
about Microsoft Excel interview questions and will also help you to crack the
interview.
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