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July 3, 2020

Animating Excel Charts

If you are going to use animation in your charts, you should do it to enhance the story your data

June 25, 2020

Excel Functions that Return References

Using a formula to return a reference to a range of cells allows us to generate a reference on the

June 18, 2020

Excel STOCKHISTORY Function

With the new Excel STOCKHISTORY function we can finally get historical price data for stocks, bonds, funds, crypto and foreign

5 Secret Features of the Excel INDEX Function

June 11, 2020

5 Excel INDEX Function Secrets

The Excel INDEX function is a treasure trove of functionality, but most of us only know one way to use

June 4, 2020

Dynamic Data Validation Lists in Userforms

Let's say we need to assign staff to work different shifts and no person can work both early and late

May 27, 2020

Show Report Filter Pages for Power Pivot PivotTables

If you are using a filter on a 'regular' pivot table (one that isn't using source data from Power Pivot),

May 13, 2020

Gather Data with Excel Forms

Excel Forms are super useful if you collate data manually, for example via email or PDF forms. Or even if

May 8, 2020

Charting Real Time Data in Excel

I've previously written about getting real time data (RTD) into Excel using Python. In this post I'm going to chart

April 30, 2020

Visio for Excel Free Add-in

Office 365 users now have access to the Visio for Excel free add-in enabling you to create Excel flow charts

April 20, 2020

Select Multiple Items from Drop Down (Data Validation) List

Data validation lists will only let you choose one item from the list. But what if we have a situation

April 16, 2020

Excel LET Function

The Excel LET function* enables you to declare variables and intermediate calculations inside of a formula. It’s like the DAX

April 9, 2020

Searchable Drop Down List in Excel

Creating this searchable drop down list in Excel is so easy I’m wondering why I never thought of it before.

April 2, 2020

Import Multiple Files Containing Multiple Sheets with Power Query

In this post we’re going to look at how you can import multiple files containing multiple sheets with Power Query,

March 25, 2020

Excel Project Management Dashboard

Managing projects or tasks can be improved with a visual representation of progress and milestones. Thankfully, an Excel project management

Excel Calendar (Date Picker) to Use in Worksheets and Userforms

March 18, 2020

Multi-Language Excel Calendar (Date Picker) for Worksheets and Userforms

I've written about using calendars/date pickers in userforms before but this one is particularly easy and flexible to use, even

March 11, 2020

Automating and Emailing Pivot Table Reports

Here's the scenario: I want to send different pages of my pivot table report to different email recipients. I can

March 5, 2020

20 Pro Excel Keyboard Shortcuts

This post contains 20 Excel keyboard shortcuts used by Excel pros. I’m not talking about CTRL+Z, and the like, these

February 26, 2020

Jitter in Excel Scatter Charts

If you use a scatter plot for a dataset that has discrete values in one dimension, for example your x-axis

February 20, 2020

Custom Excel Chart Label Positions

When you plot multiple series in a chart the labels can end up overlapping other data. A solution to this

February 13, 2020

Lookup Pictures in Excel

We can use a data validation list or a Slicer to lookup pictures in Excel. This ability to lookup pictures

February 6, 2020

Cross Highlight Excel Charts

One of the cool features in Power BI is the ability to cross highlight from one chart to another by

January 28, 2020

Searching for Data With a User Form

I was recently asked to provide the ability to search a list of records (like a table) using a user

January 23, 2020

List First Monday Date in Each Month

With Excel formulas we can easily list the first Monday date in each month, or the last Sunday, or whatever

January 11, 2020

Using Jitter to Avoid Over Plotting in Power BI

If you need to plot data that has one variable where values can be the same or very similar, for

January 8, 2020

Excel XLOOKUP Function

Oh, how I wish I’d had the fortune of the new Excel XLOOKUP function back in my accounting days. The

December 11, 2019

Excel Hash 2019 – Dynamic Playoffs Table

Excel Hash is an Excel competition dreamed up by fellow Excel MVP, Oz du Soleil. It’s based on the popular

December 3, 2019

Excel XOR Function

The Excel XOR function, or ‘exclusive OR’ as it’s known in the programming world, performs a test on an array,

November 28, 2019

Extract Start and End Dates with Power Query

A few weeks ago, Matt asked if we could extract start and end dates with Power Query. He has a

November 19, 2019

Excel Small Multiple Charts

Reduce clutter in busy line charts by plotting your data in small multiple charts, or panel charts as they’re sometimes

November 12, 2019

Overlay Line Chart Labels

Labeling charts is useful if the reader needs to know the exact value for each point. We can position labels