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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

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

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

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

June 21, 2017

List Files in a Folder Using FILES XL Macro (XLM)

Way back, when Excel 4.0 was around, it used a macro language called XLM. VBA was introduced in Excel 5.0.

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

June 6, 2017

Script Lab – Explore the Office JavaScript API & Learn to Build Add-Ins

Microsoft recently announced a project called Script Lab, previously known as 'Add-In Playground', which aims to help you learn how

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

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

May 17, 2017

Excel Themes

Excel Themes are a bundle of default colors, font styles and Shape effects. There are lots of built in Excel

May 12, 2017

More Tips for Debugging VBA

After my last post on debugging VBA I received a few comments with other tips or commands people use for

May 4, 2017

Debugging VBA Code

When you write VBA, or any programming language, you are going to encounter errors in it, or should we call

April 26, 2017

Power Query Date Formats

Power Query* can easily take a column of dates and extract, or convert it into various handy date formats with

April 20, 2017

Excel Row and Column Shortcuts

Inserting, copying, moving, or cutting and pasting rows and columns is something we do every day in Excel. And there

April 14, 2017

Power Query Lists

In Excel we often need to work with lists. List of numbers, letters, dates, countries, products, you get the idea.

April 3, 2017

Excel PivotTable Distinct Count

With the integration of Power Pivot into Excel 2013 (known as the Data Model), we now have access to a

March 22, 2017

Excel TEXTJOIN Function

New in Excel 2019* is the TEXTJOIN Function. It's the grown-up sibling of CONCATENATE. Both TEXTJOIN and CONCATENATE join text

March 16, 2017

Excel Map Charts

New in Excel 2016 (for Office 365 subscription users only*) are Map Charts. *If you have Office 365 and can’t

March 10, 2017

Excel VBA String Functions

If you are working with strings (a sequence of letters, numbers or other characters) in VBA then you are going

March 1, 2017

Power Query Unpivot

Power Query’s Unpivot tool allows us to fix one of the most common mistakes (many) Excel users make when capturing

February 22, 2017

Excel Conditional Formatting Highlight Matches in List

In this tutorial we’re going to look at how we can use Excel Conditional Formatting to highlight rows in a

February 17, 2017

Excel Custom Number Format Guide

I’ve put together this Excel custom number format guide as a resource for our members. There are loads of ways

February 9, 2017

Excel Conditional Formatting to Highlight Matches

Using Excel Conditional Formatting to highlight matches is easy when you team it up with a data validation list like

January 31, 2017

Return An Array From A UDF

This post is going to look at how to return an array from a udf. My last post looked at

January 24, 2017

Return a Range from a UDF

I've previously written a UDF to count colored cells and then perform various maths functions on the values in those

January 17, 2017

Locating Values in Large Excel Tables

By Harold Graycar XL Numerics Developer of Excel for Customer Service Professionals The previous post on this topic included a

January 12, 2017

Finding a Needle in an Excel Haystack

By Harold Graycar XL Numerics Developer of Excel for Customer Service Professionals When dealing with large tables containing ‘buckets’ of

January 5, 2017

Toggle Excel Conditional Formatting On and Off

One of the nice features of Excel Tables is the banded row formatting, which makes it easier to read and

December 29, 2016

Excel Icons

An awesome new feature available in Office 365 are Icons. You’ll find Excel Icons in the Insert tab of the

December 15, 2016

Excel Charts for Surveys

Survey data can be tricky to display in a chart so in this post I’m going to give you some