July 6, 2011
Excel COUNT, COUNTA and COUNTBLANK Functions
If you just want a quick count of the number of items in a list or a range of cells
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June 29, 2011
Save Time with an Excel Workspace
If you find yourself opening the same workbooks each day when you start work, or when you do a particular
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June 22, 2011
Excel VLOOKUP with Dynamic Column Reference
If you ever work with large tables of data and you want to insert a VLOOKUP formula that dynamically updates
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June 15, 2011
Excel Array Formula
Knowing Excel array formulas will catapult you to ‘Guru Status’ in your office and I'll do my best to make
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June 8, 2011
Importing Data into Excel
Importing data to Excel from other programs and sources enables you to further analyse and generate reports or dashboards from
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June 1, 2011
Excel TRIM Function Removes Spaces From Text
If you import data from another program it often comes in with additional spaces either at the beginning, end or
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May 25, 2011
Excel UPPER LOWER and PROPER Functions
Sometimes when you import text from another source it may not be formatted in the case you want. For example
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May 19, 2011
Excel Tips for Building Workbooks FAST
I often create Excel workbooks that contain a series of sheets for each region (or product, month, or sales person)
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May 11, 2011
Excel CEILING and FLOOR Functions
In Australia we did away with 1 and 2 cent coins years ago. So all prices, where paid in cash,
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April 30, 2011
Excel CHOOSE Function
The Excel CHOOSE function is not much use on its own, but when you nest it with other functions it
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April 20, 2011
Excel MIN MAX SMALL and LARGE Functions
The MIN, MAX, SMALL and LARGE functions in Excel are fairly straight forward, but I’d like to show you a
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April 13, 2011
Standard Deviation in Excel
Updated April 27th 2023 Standard Deviation in Excel is super easy to calculate, and we have separate functions for the
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April 8, 2011
Microsoft Excel Shapes & SmartArt
In Excel 2007 the graphics features are vastly improved. Not only have you got some instant designer quality flow charts
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April 6, 2011
Excel RAND and RANDBETWEEN Functions
Excel’s RAND and RANDBETWEEN functions aren’t very well known, but they can be quite handy. RAND Function RAND is a
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April 1, 2011
How to Calculate Interest on Savings in Excel
Ever had a spare $10,000 to put in a term deposit? If you did you might wonder what it would
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March 30, 2011
Microsoft Excel Camera Tool
You’re not likely to hear about Excel’s Camera tool on a training course and you certainly won’t find it on
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March 16, 2011
Microsoft Excel’s N Function
In my last tutorial I showed you Excel's T function, today we’re looking at the other one-letter function; the Excel
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March 11, 2011
Microsoft Excel’s T Function
Did you know there are only two functions in Excel that consist of one character? They are T and N.
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March 7, 2011
How to Join Text Together in Excel Using CONCATENATE and &
Often data imported into Excel from another system isn’t quite in the format we want. Text can be split across
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February 23, 2011
Excel Text to Columns to Correct Date Formats
If you work in Excel with data imported from other databases you’ll often find it doesn’t import it in the
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February 19, 2011
Excel Group and Outline Data
In my last tutorial I showed you how to insert a Subtotal using the Subtotal tool. If you’ve read that
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February 11, 2011
Excel Dashboard Reports
The dashboard in your car is one of the key tools you use to monitor how it’s running, so it’s
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February 4, 2011
How to Insert Subtotals in Excel
The Subtotal tool in the Outline group on the Data tab of the ribbon automatically inserts subtotal formulas and grand
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February 1, 2011
Excel VLOOKUP to the Left Using CHOOSE
A little while ago I showed you how to do a lookup to the left using the INDEX and MATCH
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January 28, 2011
How to Use Excel Filters
Excel Filters are right at home with large tables of data. You can use them to limit the data displayed
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January 21, 2011
Excel Pivot Table Video Tutorial
An Excel Pivot Table is one of the most powerful productivity tools available, but some common data layout mistakes can
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January 12, 2011
How to Use Excel Conditional Formatting
Imagine examining hundreds of rows of raw data in Excel in an attempt to find a pattern or trend. You’d
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January 7, 2011
Excel Cell Formatting Tips & Tricks
Here are some easy solutions to Excel cell formatting frustrations that I get asked about all the time. Enter your
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December 17, 2010
Calculating Time in Excel
Calculating time in Excel can be very frustrating, especially when all you want to do is sum a column of
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December 13, 2010
Make Excel Speak What You Type
There’s a little known tool in Excel that will convert your text into speech and read your worksheet to you.
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