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How To: Use the COUNTIF function in Microsoft Excel

New to Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 180th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to count specific words, specific numbers, numbers greater than a hurdle, numbers between two values, values that are NOT equal to an amount, words that end in es, all words, all numbers, all content, all blanks, all things which aren't words ...

How To: Extract part of a table from a larger table in Excel

New to Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 185th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a formula to extract part of a table from a larger table. You'll accomplish this with an array formula that uses Excel's INDIRECT, IF, ROWS, COUNTIF, INDEX, SMALL, and ROW functions. The formula will extract records that meet one con...

How To: Use IS functions in Microsoft Excel

New to Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 101st installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use IS functions (ISBLANK, ISERR, ISERROR, ISLOGICAL, ISNA, ISNONTEXT, ISNUMBER, ISREF &ISTEXT).

How To: Use macro and advanced filters in Microsoft Excel

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. In this Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 185th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to to use Advanced Filter to extract records from a table with 1 criteria, then use a Macro to automate the process.

How To: Use the EXACT function in Microsoft Excel

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. In this Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 9th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use Excel's EXACT function to check to see whether two text strings are equivalent and whether or not they have the same case.

How To: Convert currency with data from a web query in Excel

New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 94th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use and link a currency web query to a data validation cell drop-down list for money conversion.

How To: Replace a long IF with a MIN/MAX formula in Excel

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. In this Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 100th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to replace a long IF formula with a simple MIN/MAX formula (or an even simpler MEDIAN function). See 3 amazing examples. When you have a hurdle such a Commission Hurdle or a Payroll Taxable Earning Hurdle, and you are using an IF function fo...

How To: Use VLOOKUP with multiple lookup values in Excel

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. In this Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 488th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use VLOOKUP with multiple lookup values. You'll also learn how to add an extra column with a unique identifier to data set using ampersand concatenate.

How To: Find the percentage of total from a DB set in Excel

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. In this Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 480th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to calculate a percentage of total from a database data set when the variable of interest is text (word). This is accomplished with recourse to the COUNTIF, SUM & COUNTA functions.

How To: Summarize data from multiple sheets in Microsoft Excel

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. In this Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 506th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to summarize data from multiple sheets. For example, you'll see how take checkbook register data from multiple banks accounts and summarize it based on account names.

How To: Sort and filter in Microsoft Excel 2007

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. In this Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 483rd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how (and when) to use both the sort and filter tools in Microsoft Excel.

How To: Show vendor names associated with a low bid in Excel

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. In this Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 518th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the INDEX, SMALL, IF, COLUMN, COLUMNS, COUNTIF and MIN functions to extract and display vendor names when multiple vendors are ties for a low bid.

How To: Make date & time calculations (sans weekends) in Excel

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. In this Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 533rd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a formula to calculate the difference between start date/time & end date/time excluding holidays and weekends. This is accomplished with recourse to Excel's NETWORKINGDAYS and MOD functions.

How To: Format dates with the WEEKDAY function in Excel

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. In this Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 534th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the OR and WEEKDAY functions to create a logical true/false formula that will automatically apply formatting to dates that are either weekends or holidays.

How To: Create an Excel Gantt Chart by conditional formatting

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. In this Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 477th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a Gantt cell chart using conditional formatting. This is accomplished with recourse to the WORKDAY.INTL, AND, NOT & NETWORKDAYS.INT functions.

How To: Find averages & standard deviation in Microsoft Excel

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. In this Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 243rd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to find typical values, or averages – a single value that allows you to talk about all the data points in a given spreadsheet. Specifically, you'll learn how to find the mean, median, mode and standard deviation for a set of numbers.

How To: Extract records that meet certain criteria in Excel

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. In this Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 186th installment in their series of Excel magic tricks, you'll see how to extract records that meet two conditions (criteria) and list them in order with no extra rows between records as well as how to create a formula to extract part of a table from a larger table based on two criteria. (All of this is accomplished through us...

How To: Format and use the ROUND function in Microsoft Excel

Adding formatting to plain Excel spreadsheet is a wonderful way of increasing the readability and improving the overall look and feel of your data. With this software how-to from ExcelIsFun, you'll learn all about using the Microsoft Office program's formatting features. As an added bonus, you'll learn about the ROUND function, which is also useful for cleaning up charts where great precision isn't required.

How To: Customize a Watermark in Word 2007

Get to design your own watermark for your documents. Here's a video showing these easy steps to watermarking your documents. 1. Go to the "Page Layout" tab in Word 2007 and look for the "Page Background" section of the toolbar and select the "Watermark" button. 2. Click on the "Custom Watermark". 3. Click on either picture or text watermark, whichever you prefer. 4. If you select the Picture Watermark, you need to insert a picture by clicking the select picture. You can also customize the sca...

How To: Make a footnote in MS Word 2007

This video shows you how to make a footnote in MS Word 2007. 1. Click on the last letter of the word where the footnote refers to. 3. Click on the References tab. 4. Click Insert Footnote. 5. A tiny number will appear beside the word where you clicked and a footnote number with a line on top will also appear on the last part of the page. 6. Type in the words or the notes. 7. You may now continue typing your work.

How To: Convert your Microsoft word files into pdf files

Steve Hicks from Screen Cast Central demonstrates how to convert your Microsoft Word files into PDF files using the Easy PDF Creator. First, download and install the PDF Creator. Then, open Microsoft Word and open the file that you would like to convert. Choose the file option from the top tool bar. Next, click the print option from the drop down menu. The print menu will now open. Under the printer name field select the PDF Creator option. Click the OK button. The PDF Creator summary window ...

How To: Select a random name in Excel

Not sure about all the functions and abilities of Microsoft Excel? Luckily there are free video tutorials out in the world... or better said, the World Wide Web, to help you. In this video, learn how to use the RAND function and sort in Excel to select a random name from a list.

How To: Sort data in Excel

A major plus in using Microsoft Excel is its ability to sort large amounts of data. What's the use of Excel, if you don't know how to sort? In this short video clip, learn how to go about sort your data in the order needed.

How To: Embed a YouTube video in PowerPoint 2007

This video shows how to embed a YouTube video in a PowerPoint presentation in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007. First you want to copy the URL of the YouTube video that you want to embed in your PowerPoint. Then, open PowerPoint 2007 and click the office button in the top left corner (circular button with office logo). Then click "PowerPoint options" and check "show developer tab in ribbon". Then click "OK". Click on the developer tab, and click on "more controls". Then scroll down to "Shockw...

How To: Embed a YouTube video into PowerPoint 2003

First thing you want to do is to find a video that you want to embed in a PowerPoint file (it might be PowerPoint 2007 also). After that you might see the video and decide of the final quality of it (dependent on your internet speed ). In the right side of the video you will see a URL link to it, copy that to your PowerPoint to have it ready for next step. On your PowerPoint file enable the Control Toolbox and follow the instruction .Be sure that you modified properly the web address . Voila,...

How To: Apply accounting & percentage formatting in Excel

This is the fifth video in the Statistics in Excel. He gives the website address where content can be downloaded. He speaks about the different types of formatting like stylistic and number formatting. He talks about the different formats like accounting and percentage, and how to use both of them. Accounting format is nice because it lines up the decimals nicely. He shows how to apply the accounting format. The percentage format displays the value in as a percentage. He shows you how to appl...

How To: Embed a YouTube video in PowerPoint w/ or w/o internet

In this Software video tutorial you will learn how to embed a YouTube video in PowerPoint with or without Internet. You will see two ways of doing this with and without internet access. When you have an internet connection, open up PowerPoint and click on the office circle button on the left hand corner. From there select ‘PowerPoint options’ and check the box that says ‘show developer tabs in the ribbon’ and click OK. Once the developer tab is in your ribbon, select that and go to the area t...

How To: Embed a YouTube video into PowerPoint w/ no internet

This genius video shows the viewers how to easily embed and add a YouTube video into a PowerPoint presentation with no internet connection! First you will need to make sure you are using Firefox. After getting Firefox, make sure you install a Firefox Add-on called Video downloader. To get this add-on, Google 'video downloader' and install the add-on. you will see a new icon at the bottom of the screen to the right. First, go to the video you would like to download on YouTube and click on the ...

How To: Change views & navigate documents in MS Word 2007

In this video the instructor shows how to change views in Microsoft word 2007 and navigate around the documents. In Microsoft word 2007 in the ribbon there is a view tab to the extreme right. Open the tab. Now in that bar the default layout selected is the Print Layout which is 'What you see is what you get' layout. Next to it the full screen reading option and clicking on it, the documents opens up as a two page book with all the other tool bars hidden. The next is web layout which is ideal ...