

Text-to-column is a neat little tool to help you separate data that’s contained in one column. Helpful hint: Use conditional formatting (listed above) to automatically highlight cells that are over the allotted character count. Have you ever been writing ad copy and just can’t quite get the right number of characters in each line? Don’t fret you can use the length function to calculate how many characters are in a cell. From there, you can replace what you’re looking for with something else. Making keywords BMM (Find “ “ and Replace with “ +”).In this example, the function listed would return “yellow”. VOOKUP, is that Index Match can read left or right, while VLOOKUP can only read to the right. Index match is another way to look up data using both the Index function and the Match function nested together. This is great for compiling data from two different reports.

I use VLOOKUP very frequently to (you guessed it) look up a value on a separate sheet in my workbook. If you don’t want to highlight the entire cell in one color, choose the icon option. By applying the conditional formatting, we can easily pick out any times that aren’t performing well and set a bid adjustment accordingly. Here we show a heat map of conversion metrics by time of day. There are multiple pre-set rules that you can use, or you can create a custom rule. TRICK #2 - CONDITIONAL FORMATTING – HEAT MAPPINGĬonditional formatting is great to get quick insights from a set of data. Helpful Hint: Use calculated fields for metrics like cost/conversion, CTR, and conversion rates.
