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January 23, 2014

Charting Disparate Data in Excel – 3 Solutions and 1 Crazy Mess

Last week we looked at some different ways to plot the same data, with each chart enabling the reader to

January 15, 2014

4 Charts – Same Data. Which do you think is best?

Often when you’re charting data it can be tricky to find the best chart for the job. If you get

January 10, 2014

Mac Excel Keyboard Shortcuts Cover

If you’re frustrated using Excel on a Mac because you don’t know the shortcut keys you’re used to using on

January 6, 2014

Excel TEXT Function – handy but limited…or is it?

At first glance the Excel TEXT function appears quite limited. Its purpose is to convert numbers to text in a

December 11, 2013

Assign a Macro to a Shape or Use a Shortcut Sequence

So you’ve got some code and you want to be able to run it, but opening up the list of

December 4, 2013

Excel Search a Cell for a List of Words

A while back Vernon asked me how he could search one cell and compare it to a list of words.

November 27, 2013

How To Use VBA Code From The Internet

So you’ve found some VBA code on the ‘net that will save you hours and hours of work, but how

November 27, 2013

How To Enable the Developer Tab in Excel

The Developer tab in Excel gives you access to features and tools that help you to write and run macros.

November 20, 2013

Excel Hyperlink Buttons

I like to use Excel hyperlink buttons in my Excel workbooks to help with navigation. I link them to a

November 13, 2013

No, you’re not going mad, it’s just Excel’s Implicit Intersection

For many years there has been something kooky going on in my Excel worksheets. It was this strange phenomenon that

November 7, 2013

Favourite Excel Shortcuts

Sometimes it’s the little things that make a big difference so today I’m going to share with you a few

October 30, 2013

Excel Tabular Data Format

Today I want to share with you an Excel secret. It’s so powerful that when you know this your Excel

October 23, 2013

Excel Football Dashboard Extreme Makeover

Phil plays 6 a-side football (soccer) in a Supa-Oldie league. They’re all over 35 and that’s considered supa-old in football!

October 16, 2013

30 Chants for Better Excel Charts

I see the same innocent mistakes with Excel charts and data presentation over and over again. And a lot of

October 14, 2013

VBA to Create PDF from Excel Worksheet Then Email It With Outlook

Real World Scenario One of my customers (thanks Tony) creates invoices in Excel for his clients and at the end

October 9, 2013

Return the First and Last Values in a Range

I’ve been asked many times how to find either the cell reference of the first or last value in a

October 2, 2013

Excel Average IF Excluding Outliers

I stumbled upon an interesting question the other day, which was; ‘how do I find the average of a range

October 1, 2013

Merge Excel Worksheets with VBA

The Scenario Let’s say that you have a lot of sheets in your workbook and you want to merge all

September 25, 2013

Excel Find Partial Text Strings

This is a guest tutorial written by Ruthie Ward of Idaho, USA. I wanted to find a partial match to

September 18, 2013

Filter Excel Pivot Tables by Values

This is a guest tutorial written by Bryon Smedley of Bristol, Tennessee. If you’ve ever used Pivot Tables in Excel,

September 11, 2013

Finding Missing Numbers in a Range Using VBA

The Problem You have a sequence of numbers, and you want to find the numbers that are missing from that

September 11, 2013

Excel Formula – List Missing Numbers in a Sequence

A little while ago I received an email from Deborah asking what formula she can use to list missing numbers

September 4, 2013

Extract Text from a Cell using MID Formulas

Last week we looked at how to use Excel’s Text to Columns tool to extract the domain name from a

August 28, 2013

Extracting Text Strings Using Excel’s Text to Columns

The Easy Way In this example I’m going to show you how you can extract the domain name from a

August 21, 2013

Calculate Elapsed Days, Hours and Minutes in Excel

I had an email from Steve a little while ago asking how he could display the number of elapsed days,

August 14, 2013

Excel Test if a Range Contains Text, Numbers or is Empty

I received an email from Bill this week asking how he can check if a range of cells contains text

August 7, 2013

Excel Quintile Chart

One of my Excel Dashboard course members, Mark Maher, emailed me wanting to know if a chart that Stephen Few

August 2, 2013

Excel Pivot Tables to Extract Data

I regularly get asked: “What formula can I use to extract a list or subset of data from a master

July 23, 2013

Tour de France Excel Dashboard

Since Phil is somewhat of a cycling fan I have been subjected to late night TV of le Tour. Personally

July 18, 2013

Excel Formulas Not Working?

Excel Formula Help is Here Excel formulas can be frustrating to understand, especially when you start nesting functions. If you've