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November 25, 2014

Excel Advent Calendar

Today I’ve got a Christmas treat for you with an Excel Advent Calendar that Phil and I created. Before you

November 19, 2014

Workbook & Worksheet Events in Excel VBA

What Are Events? An Event occurs when certain actions are performed by the user or VBA. For example when you

November 12, 2014

My 2014 Microsoft MVP Summit Experience

I arrived back from the 2014 Microsoft MVP Summit in Seattle on Sunday a little tired but bounding with excitement

October 30, 2014

What the CELL!

Excel’s CELL function doesn’t get a lot of press but it can be handy to know. The CELL Function simply

October 20, 2014

Excel GETPIVOTDATA Function

In its simplest form the Excel GETPIVOTDATA function enables you to extract values from a PivotTable report, but if you’re

October 13, 2014

Excel Chart Makeover

Getting the formatting in your chart right can make the difference between clear, concise information and just a pretty picture.

October 6, 2014

Interactive Excel Formulas

Dynamic formulas are the cornerstone of interactive reports like dashboards. They enable our report recipients to interact with the data,

September 29, 2014

Excel Power Pivot Named Sets

Excel PivotTable Named Sets enable you to pick and choose which columns or rows you want included in your PivotTable

September 23, 2014

Change the Color of Words in Text

One of our students (hi Leah 🙂 ) sent me a question last week asking how she could change the

September 15, 2014

Excel Custom Data Validation to Limit Entries

In this tutorial we're going to look at how Santa is using Excel Custom Data Validation to limit the number

September 8, 2014

Excel Pivot Tables Year on Year Change

PivotTables are a treasure trove of features and one that has been brought out of the dungeons in more recent

September 1, 2014

Deleting Rows in Excel Containing Blanks Returned by Double Quotes

We should all be using Go To Special to quickly remove rows containing blanks, but if those blanks are returned

August 26, 2014

Text to Columns with an Excel Formula

If you reformat data brought into Excel from an external source regularly then you’ve most likely come across Excel’s Text

August 12, 2014

Excel Slicers – Everything You Need to Know

Excel Slicers are a professional way to enable users to easily and intuitively interact with your reports, filtering data in

August 5, 2014

Excel Formula to Spread Income or Costs Over Months

WARNING: this tutorial contains some advanced formula concepts which may incur the following side effects: Negative side effects: Headache, urge

July 22, 2014

Fix Excel Chart Axis with a Ghost Series

Below is a set of Panel Charts. In this case they’re actually 4 separate charts aligned close together. Comparing one

July 15, 2014

3 Steps to Easy Bullet Graphs in Excel

Bullet graphs were developed by data visualisation expert Stephen Few to address the need for visually rich displays of data

July 8, 2014

Excel Protect Ranges with Different Passwords

Did you know you can set different passwords to protect specific ranges of your Excel worksheets? It’s called Allow Users

June 18, 2014

Protect and Unprotect All Sheets in a Workbook

I recently had a client who has a requirement to protect and unprotect a lot of sheets. This was something

June 18, 2014

Customize the Ribbon in Excel

You can customize the Ribbon in Excel so that you add your own tabs and icons to run commonly used

June 16, 2014

Plot Excel Data on a Map

If you don’t have Excel 2013 then this post will be a bit like window shopping with an empty wallet.

June 9, 2014

Excel Paste Special Operations

Copying and Pasting are two of the most common tasks you’ll perform in Excel. This is especially true for me

June 5, 2014

Sorting in Excel PivotTables

My second Excel love is PivotTables (VLOOKUP is still my number 1). PivotTables make short work of summarising data and

May 27, 2014

Writing Excel Formulas Efficiently

Struggling with Excel formulas can turn simple tasks into time-consuming challenges, leaving you frustrated and behind on work. Fortunately, a

May 20, 2014

Create Hyperlinked List of Files in Subfolders

I wrote a macro a few weeks ago which created a list of files with hyperlinks to those files, but

May 14, 2014

Interactive Excel Web App Dashboard

Warning: this is a long post. Get supplies so you don’t dehydrate or suffer from low blood sugar levels before

May 6, 2014

Is Your Line Chart Lying?

Charts are great at revealing trends, patterns and relationships in your data. We love how they enable us to glean

April 29, 2014

Conditional Formatting PivotTables

Conditional Formatting in PivotTables has its ups and downs. Unfortunately I find them mostly ‘downs’ but let’s not dwell on

April 22, 2014

Excel Chart Templates

If you find yourself repeatedly spending a few minutes customising your chart colours, formatting the title, legend, axis labels etc.

April 16, 2014

Create Hyperlinked List of Files in a Folder Using VBA

So you have a load of PDF's, or scanned documents, or some nice pictures of your stamp collection*, and you