November 16, 2011
Excel Average Top 3 Values
You may already know you can find the 3rd highest value using the LARGE function, but what if you want
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November 10, 2011
Excel Advanced Filter Unique Records
Do you ever want to extract a list of unique records from a massive list like the one in column
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November 2, 2011
Excel Conditional Formatting Zebra Stripes
It's ok, no zebras get hurt in this process, it's actually all built in to Excel's Conditional Formatting 🙂 Conditional
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October 25, 2011
Top 5 Mistakes With Reports in Excel
There's a handful of mistakes almost everyone makes when they first use Excel. I know I did. In fact some
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October 21, 2011
Excel Dynamic Text Formulas Trick [FREE VIDEO]
Inserting text into a text box is one cool trick, but being able to have that text update when your
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October 4, 2011
Excel Photo Album of Our New Zealand Trip
We just arrived back from two weeks travelling around New Zealand with 3 other families. While there we managed to
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September 28, 2011
Excel TIME Function
The Excel TIME function combines separate hour, minute and second values and converts them into a time serial number. If
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September 21, 2011
Excel CONVERT Functions
With a family of 4 fussy eaters to feed (well actually, 3 fussy eaters and myself) I do a lot
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September 14, 2011
Excel Paste Shortcut
The other day I was in an Excel forum helping answer some questions. I like to help, because….well, I like
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September 7, 2011
Easy Excel Database Functions
Excel Database functions have been around for donkey's years so it's surprising that not many people know about them. They
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August 31, 2011
Excel Wildcards in your SUMIF, COUNTIF and VLOOKUP
Wildcards *?~....what am I talking about? And no, it's not an expletive. Let’s start with an example. COUNTIF using Wildcards
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August 24, 2011
Excel SEARCH and You Will FIND
In Excel there are two almost identical functions; SEARCH and FIND. The SEARCH and FIND functions allow you to find
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August 17, 2011
Create a Pivot Table Direct From Access
Did you know you can analyse data from an Access database in an Excel Pivot Table without importing the data
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August 10, 2011
Excel Chart Axis Label Tricks
So, you’ve analysed your data and plotted your chart but the axis labels are all skewey (technical term). Let’s look
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August 3, 2011
Excel Chart Secondary Axis
One of the Excel questions I get asked often is; how do I add a secondary axis to my chart?
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July 29, 2011
Save Time with Hyperlinks for Word, Excel and Outlook
If you work in large Excel files, Word documents or even e-mail, you may find it takes a long time
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July 20, 2011
Excel Histogram Charts and FREQUENCY Function
A Histogram, also known as a frequency distribution, is a chart that illustrates the distribution of values that fall into
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July 13, 2011
Excel SUBSTITUTE Function Trick
Each time I write a tutorial I use the Google Keyword tool to find search phrases that are relevant. I
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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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