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Mastering your Excel skills? Have a busy Excel workbook or spreadsheet that needs to some organizing? In this two-part tutorial, learn how to pull text from cells & separate them into multiple columns in MS Excel. You will learn how to use the LEN(), FIND(), LEFT(), and RIGHT() functions to pull text from Microsoft Excel 2007 cells & assign them to different columns.

David Rivers is back to give us some more tricks on using MS Outlook 2010. In this video he tells us how you can avoid sending email to the wrong person by setting up some email preferences in MailTips. MailTips actually has the ability to alert you when you are about to send an email under certain conditions. Don't worry about sending an email to your boss that was meant for your co-worker. Your MailTips folder contains many options that you can use to restrict some of your outgoing mail and...

This video teaches how to fill in the blanks with custom number format in Excel. Open any similar worksheet as shown in the video or type the same to use. Select all the cells in the columns E and F and press F5. Now click 'Specials', then select 'Blanks' and click 'OK'. All the blank cell will be highlighted, now enter the value and press 'Ctrl+Enter' to populate all the blank cells. Press 'Ctrl+1' to format cells, select custom if you want something to show up in the cell but not really be...

This video helps us how to add continuous music to your PowerPoint presentation. To add continuous music to your PowerPoint presentation, click "Insert" in the Main toolbar. Place arrow key on the Sound icon and wait for options to appear. Select "Sound from File". Locate for and select the sound file. Select "Automatically" button once a window appears. Select "Animation" and then "Custom Animation". A window appears on the right side of the screen. Select "Effect" options and choose the...

Here you will learn how to use the double space function in MS Word 07. To use the double space function in MS Word, do the following: Open MS Word 07. After typing in some text, highlight the part which you want to double space. Click on the Icon that says "Line Spacing". Click on it and scroll down to find 2.0. Click on it. Now your work has been double spaced. A shortcut to do this would be to click Control and 2, and it will automatically double space everything for you.

New to Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly advanced as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck.

This tutorial will show you how to set up your college essay using MLA style formatting in Microsoft Word. Follow these steps to set up MLA style formatting: Open a new document and change your margins to 1". Set your font to 12 point Times New Roman. Set the header by typing your name, your professor's name and your class and section. Add the date from the Insert Menu. Set your spacing to double. Enter your title in the center of the page. New paragraphs are indicated by indents, and not...

After you launch Outlook 2010 in your computer, you will see the Ribbon strip immediately in the main window. The button for writing a new e-mail is separated from a button for creating new items in the calendar, contact list or task manager. An independent Quick Steps section offers functions allowing you to move a message into different folders, to save it into a calendar as a meeting reminder, to quickly forward it to a chosen person or to more people and to forward it with a FYI note. If...

In this video the instructor shows how to use the Round function and also format numbers in Microsoft Excel. Normally while calculating formulas in Excel, the formatting of numbers can get you into a lot of trouble and to get around this problem you need to use the Round function. To do this take some sample data in a Excel work book and apply any formula that you want on the data to arrive at some calculation. Now because of this formatting some times you can arrive at a wrong result as shown...

This video tutorial is a quick explanation of the ins and outs of spell and grammar check when using MS Word 2010. One of the main things highlighted in this video is that unlike previous additions, this year's version offers more contextual correction. For example, when the word their was used in an article, it was spelled correctly but used in the wrong context. The spell and grammar checker will underline this to let you know that it is incorrect. If you hit the spell and grammar check...

Want to get more from the raw data you're entering into your Excel worksheets? Now you can create two distinct pivot tables in Excel comparing, for example, monthly and quarterly sales data. Not familiar with the pivot table? Pivot tables summarize spreadsheet input by counting, sorting and totaling data within a list and providing at-a-glance computations within the same sheet. Become an expert on the subject within 5 minutes and 24 seconds by following easy to understand instructions narrated...

Once you learn some of the basics, Excel is an easy program to use. With the use of some simple formulas, you can streamline your whole data entry process. Just by typing in =SUM you can set a row or column to show the sum of other entries. It really is that easy. This video will show how to use these formulas and take advantage of Excel date math and time formatting.

Excel is a powerful tool, but sometimes you need a guide to navigate its possibilities. This clip shows the difference between absolute and relative cell references so that any given formula, when copied, gives the results you want. Sometimes you will want to refer to the same cell, even when you are copying a formula to a different place on the worksheet. Other times, you will want the items in the formula to change as you copy them across the columns. You will see how such actions work...

David Rivers shows us how to create navigation forms in Microsoft Office 2010 without writing codes or using logic. A navigation form is kind of like a homepage that will give you a list of reports. There are pre-designed layouts you can choose from to make your navigation form. You will just need to customize your form by adding reports to the navigation pane. What this means for business owners is that you can see customer orders and store reports just by looking at one page. Simple to make...

There is a new function in MS Excel 2010 called 'Sparkline' which helps you quickly find trends associated with a set of data. To create Sparkline, you can go to 'Insert' tab and then select 'Sparkline' section and then select the graph type. After you enter the data range and location range, the Sparkline will show up indicating the trend based on the data range you identified earlier. You can change the types and styles of your Sparkline easily. As the video demonstrates, whenever you use...

There are many functions in Microsoft Excel. One function that people rarely use is the Repeat function or REPT. In this video, an example used is a chart of people and their sales of a certain item. Just looking at the numbers, it is hard to compare the different sales easily, but a more visual approach may work better. Next to one of the cells, type in "=REPT(" which is the repeat function. A popup should say "=REPT(text, numbertimes)". For "text", type in *** or anything, really. For...

Excel Magic Trick 475 talks about Sumproduct for bank deposit calculation. Here, the total money can be calculated by just a click. Total is taken as Sumproduct and can be obtained by clicking on the number of bills that get added to give the final checked amount. If these steps are followed, the viewers will find themselves in a new world of deposit and bill calculation

Need to compare two datasets and extract the new values? In this the 539th installment of ExcelIsFun's series of Excel magic tricks, you'll see how to use the MATCH function, the Join Symbol (& Ampersand), and the Filter feature to check two 2 lists of transactoinal records and extract only the new records (records that are in new list but not in old list).

Want to retrieve a value in a given Excel column based on criteria from multiple other external columns? You can. And it's not so very hard provided you know what to do (hint: you'll use the LOOKUP function). Get in the know with this, the 541st installment of ExcelIsFun's series of Excel magic tricks.

Want a way to dynamically reference the number of instances of a given word in a Microsoft Office Word document from Excel? Who doesn't, am I right? In this Microsoft Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 543rd installment in their series of Excel magic tricks, you'll learn how to do just that.

What's better than Microsoft Excel's conditional formatting feature? Microsoft Excel's conditional formatting feature when used with multiple criteria, that's what! In this Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 544th installment in their series of Excel magic tricks, you'll learn how to build multi-variable conditional formatting formulas using the TRUE, FALSE and AND operators.

Even seasoned users of Excel might not know that you can use the COUNTIFS, DCOUNTA, and SUMPRODUCT functions to count the number of entries that fall between the values given by two other cells. Well, you can. And in this Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 545th installment in their series of Excel magic tricks, you'll learn how to do just that.

New to Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly advanced as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck.

Excel dilettantes and seasoned Microsoft Office professionals alike may be surprised to learn that in Excel one can make a drop down list based upon a second drop down list (or, similarly, data validation list that is based on a second validation list).

The ability to create professional and clean presentations can be a valuable asset to one's career. With this video tutorial, learn how to use Adobe Presenter in order to augment Power Point presentations. Presenter offers users the ability to record narration under a set order of slides in a simple interface, and provides an interactive quiz option to further engage audience members. Alternatively, users may also convert a presentation into PDF format, for use as a physical or virtual...

Have you ever wondered how to make a brochure in Microsoft Word? Is your job requiring you to learn how to create a brochure in Microsoft Word? This tutorial will teach you step by step how to find templates online, transfer them into Word, and how to open the blank template in Word. This will enable you to create a successful brochure with a highly professional look to give to your clients. This step-by-step tutorial is guaranteed to tell you everything you need to know about creating...

We're on sheet, tab, filter. We want to talk about filter, but we also want to talk about an Excel table or list. It is simply a data set with field names at the top, records in rows, no blanks anywhere and no other data sets touching this data set. When we convert to a table, it does a lot of amazing things. The new keyboard shortcut is "Ctrl T". If data is set up correctly, it will work. Click Ok. You can build a function based on a column of data, i.e. "Alt =" which is the shortcut for sum....

In this Excel basics video, the instructor talks about the basics of charts. There is an enormous difference in how you make charts between Microsoft Excel 2003 and 2007. In both the versions, to make charts the first thing you do is highlight the data cells in your workspace. Now use the toolbar and click on the charts button there. Now Excel automatically generates the charts based on the data and the column and row names. But there are various changes between the charts produced in the...

Learn how to use Excel stylistic and number formatting by watching this video. You'll learn how to format a cell. These have different types of formats like general, time, date, etc. You'll also learn how to create a table. There are different types like names, values, time and time etc. Learn to create names like employee name and fill in the borders, and create thick lines. Watch this video for more information!

In this Excel magic trick video the tutor shows how to print labels on each page of a large spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel. He shows how to download the sample work book so that you can try the tutorial hands-on. He shows a spread sheet which he intends to print and wants the label of columns to be printed in the top and left of a page. For that he shows the page setup preview where you can check the print preview of the pages about to be printed. He shows that the columns appear on only the...

This video shows you how to make a brochure using Microsoft Publisher. To create a brochure first you will need to choose the brochure template in Publisher, in this case the presenter chooses the event brochure. You can then customize the template by changing the default text, which the video shows you how to do by highlighting and deleting. It also shows you how to move to page 2 and change the text there. You can also change the default pictures by choosing the picture to replace and...

This how-to video is about how to use the Ribbon and Backstage view in Microsoft Office Excel 2010.

This video shows you how to calculate weighted average cost from a transactional data set using SUMPRODUCT function. It explains things very clearly. If you're working with a very large database transactions the SUMPRODUCT function makes it. It works as text if you do the formatting first and then type the number. We put the number in first and then format as text, then press F2 and ENTER.

MotionTraining gives an overview for using Microsoft Excel for beginners in this video. This video gives a rundown and overview of the basics of this spreadsheet program: from typing in the columns and rows, adding dollar signs to data, and how to make basic calculations. MotionTraining will show how to make text stand out with bold and italics, adding colors to your data, and how to make a grid appear during the printing process. Creating various charts of the data in the spreadsheet is also...

In this Excel basic video the instructor show how to setup a page in Microsoft Excel. Now you before go to a page setup, first you have to make sure that all the cells are visible in a spreadsheet by extending or contracting the size of different columns. You can also select all columns and make their column width a constant. Now go to the orb and select a print preview to get a preview of how the print out is going to be. Now after checking it out you can make necessary changes in the original...

This video is describing how to preview the pasted items such as from another PowerPoint or any other articles. These are all features available in the "Microsoft Office Power Point 2010". We will take the "conference1" presentation in that the first slide and we would like to add some text from another "Document" from another application like "Microsoft Word". So, we click and drop the mouse to select that and click the Copy button on the top of the word file or we can copy by the keyboard...

By watching this lyndapodcast tutorial you learn how to use the quick file function in Microsoft OneNote 2010. This feature eliminates to regroup information, so you can send notes obtained from multiple sources to a selected page of a note book. This method called quick filing lets you send the information from the program that your using directly to One Note seamlessly.

To multiply and divide the two fractions is a single step problems. Just multiply both the numerators and denominator for obtaining multiplication of two fractions, and for the division just multiply numerator of first fraction with denominator of second fraction and keep it in numerator place, and for the denominator place you just multiply the denominator of first fraction with numerator of second fraction.

This is an Excel magic trick video in which the instructor shows how is time represented in Excel and how it is formatted before displaying it to us. He talks about the decimal representation of the time. He says that if O hour is mapped to the number zero and 24th hour of a day is mapped to number one then we can represent any time of the day in the format of a decimal number between zero and one. He shows the type of formatting that excel uses to convert the decimal number into a human...

A histogram is a summary graph showing a count of data points that fall in various ranges. Histograms are used in statistics and other forms of mathematics. In this video, learn how to create your own histogram using data analysis on the computer. This tutorial will show you how to create a frequency distribution, a cumulative frequency distribution, a histogram chart and an ogive chart with the data analysis add-in.