February 14, 2018
Excel Infographics
Excel infographics, like the one below, are easy to build and there are loads of tools you can use to
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February 5, 2018
Excel Forecast Sheet
The Excel Forecast Sheet and charts are a new feature available in Excel 2016. In just a few clicks you
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January 31, 2018
Labelling Events in Excel Charts
Plotting data over time can reveal patterns and trends, but often blips in the data require further explanation. We can
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Excel Chart Formatting Tips
Format your dashboards and reports fast with these pro Excel chart formatting tips. Watch the Video Pro Tip 1 –
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December 6, 2017
Excel Dot Plot Charts
Dumbbells and Lollipop Charts Excel Dot Plots, dumbbells and lollipop charts are good for comparing one, two or three points
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November 30, 2017
Visualizing Parts to a Whole in Excel Charts
When you think of visualizing parts to a whole in Excel charts the first thing that’s likely to come to
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November 6, 2017
Excel PivotTable Error Handling
Obviously, we don’t want our PivotTables littered with #DIV/0! and #NULL! errors if we’re presenting them in a report (like
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November 2, 2017
Excel PivotTable Percentage Change
PivotTables can make quick work of summarising and analysing data and they have some handy built in percentage calculations available
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October 25, 2017
Extract Date or Time from a Date and Time
We often need to extract the date or time portion from a date-time serial number for use in other functions.
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October 25, 2017
Excel DATE Function
The Excel DATE function combines separate year, month and day values and converts them into a date serial number formatted
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October 25, 2017
Convert Month Names to Numbers
Often, we'll have a list of month names that we want to convert to a date, or even just convert
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October 24, 2017
Convert Dates to Text
If you want to use a date in a chart label, or you want to concatenate a date with some
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October 23, 2017
Fix Excel Dates Formatted as Text
Dates incorrectly entered or imported as text are a showstopper. We need our dates entered as date serial numbers to
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October 20, 2017
Excel Date and Time Formatting
Even though dates and time are actually stored as a regular number known as the date serial number, we can
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Excel NETWORKDAYS.INTL Function
The Excel NETWORKDAYS.INTL function (new in Excel 2010) returns the number of working days between two date serial numbers, excluding
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October 12, 2017
Power Query Get Files from a Folder
If you receive your data in separate daily, weekly or monthly files then before you can even begin analyzing the
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October 2, 2017
Label Excel Chart Min and Max
Highlighting the minimum and maximum in an Excel chart can help focus your readers’ attention. We can manually select points
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September 26, 2017
Dynamically Label Excel Chart Series Lines
The default Excel chart legends can be awkward and time consuming to read when you have more than 2 series
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September 19, 2017
Highlight Cells Referenced in Excel Formulas
In an ideal spreadsheet our formulas would always reference adjacent cells and columns and it would be obvious which cells
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September 7, 2017
Excel Pivot Chart Drill Down Buttons
Excel Pivot Chart Drill down buttons are a new feature available in Excel 2016. You’ll find them in the bottom
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August 22, 2017
Excel Extract a Unique List
As with most things in Excel, there are many ways to extract a list of unique or distinct values from
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August 15, 2017
Excel Find and Remove Duplicates
Sometimes we want to find and remove duplicates in Excel, other times we just want to identify or highlight duplicates.
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July 27, 2017
Excel Convert Dates to Fiscal Quarters and Years
If your company’s fiscal year runs in line with the calendar year then it’s easy to convert dates into quarters
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July 20, 2017
Power Query Unpivot Scenarios
In this post I’m going to show you how to use Power Query’s Unpivot tool to fix 3 common data
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July 11, 2017
Symbols in Excel Slicers
Did you know you can display symbols in Excel Slicers? That’s right, Slicers aren’t just limited to listing boring old
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July 5, 2017
Excel Chart Secondary Axis Alternatives
Sometimes a secondary axis is a necessary evil. After all, most of the time you can’t plot big numbers and
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June 29, 2017
Excel Chart Highlighting
One of the cool features of Power BI is the ability to cross filter and highlight charts. With a simple
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June 13, 2017
Set Excel PivotTable Default Layout
New in Excel 2019 onward and Microsoft 365 is the ability to set a PivotTable default layout, which can save
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June 1, 2017
Excel Dates Displayed in Different Languages
If you share Excel files and reports with users from different countries then you might want to give them a
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May 24, 2017
Power Query Updates
The monthly update cycle for Excel’s Power Query sure keeps us on our toes. Power Query Updates for Excel 2010
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