Hot Microsoft Office How-Tos
How To: Create a budget with formula inputs in Microsoft Excel
Whether you're interested in learning Microsoft Excel from the bottom up or just looking to pick up a few tips and tricks, you're in the right place. In this tutorial from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, ExcelIsFun, the 22nd installment in his "Highline Excel Class" series of free video Excel lessons, you'll learn how to create a budget with formula inputs in an assumption area and formulas. Then do what-if analysis by saving and showing scenarios. Also see how to save variables...
How To: Sort data with sorting functions in Microsoft Excel
Whether you're interested in learning Microsoft Excel from the bottom up or just looking to pick up a few tips and tricks, you're in the right place. In this tutorial from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, ExcelIsFun, the 16th installment in his "Highline Excel Class" series of free video Excel lessons, you'll learn how to sort data in MS Excel. Specifically, you'll see the following:
How To: Use comparative operators & logical formulas in Excel
Whether you're interested in learning Microsoft Excel from the bottom up or just looking to pick up a few tips and tricks, you're in the right place. In this tutorial from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, ExcelIsFun, the 11th installment in his "Highline Excel Class" series of free video Excel lessons, you'll learn how to use comparative operators; logical TRUE/FALSE formulas, IS functions (ISTEXT, ISNUMBER, ISBLANK, ISERROR, ISNONTEXT); IF functions (1 of 2 words in a cell, 1 of...
How To: Use text functions (TRIM, PROPER, SUBSTITUTE) in Excel
Whether you're interested in learning Microsoft Excel from the bottom up or just looking to pick up a few tips and tricks, you're in the right place. In this tutorial from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, ExcelIsFun, the 11th installment in his "Highline Excel Class" series of free video Excel lessons, you'll learn how to transform bad data into useful data using formulas and text functions such as TRIM, PROPER, SUBSTITUTE, REPLACE, FIND and LEFT. Also see how to use the ampersan...
How To: Create a formula timer in Microsoft Excel
Are you looking for a way to make your Microsoft Excel formulas simpler, faster and more efficient? If so, you're in the right place. With this free video lesson from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, YouTube's ExcelsFun, the 2nd installment in his "Excel Formula Efficiency" series, you'll learn how to compare alternative formulas to see which is faster.
How To: Use database functions in Microsoft Excel 1997-2003
Are you looking for a way to make your Microsoft Excel formulas simpler, faster and more efficient? If so, you're in the right place. With this free video lesson from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, YouTube's ExcelsFun, the 3rd installment in his "Excel Formula Efficiency" series, you'll see how the Excel 2003, 2002, 2001, 1997 Database D functions (DSUM, DAVERAGE, DCOUNT) are much faster than SUMPRODUCT and SUM array formulas.
How To: Use SUMIFS and COUNTIFS in Microsoft Excel 2007
Are you looking for a way to make your Microsoft Excel formulas simpler, faster and more efficient? If so, you're in the right place. With this free video lesson from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, YouTube's ExcelsFun, the 7th installment in his "Excel Formula Efficiency" series, you'll learn about the SUMIFS function and how it blows SUMPRODUCT away when it comes to calculation speed.
How To: Speed up calculations with helper cells in MS Excel
Are you looking for a way to make your Microsoft Excel formulas simpler, faster and more efficient? If so, you're in the right place. With this free video lesson from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, YouTube's ExcelsFun, the 7th installment in his "Excel Formula Efficiency" series, you'll learn how to use a helper cell to remove a time-consuming (expensive) section of your formula to speed up calculations.
How To: Use helper columns with concatenated fields in Excel
Are you looking for a way to make your Microsoft Excel formulas simpler, faster and more efficient? If so, you're in the right place. With this free video lesson from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, YouTube's ExcelsFun, the 7th installment in his "Excel Formula Efficiency" series, you'll see how a helper column with concatenated fields can dramatically reduce the time a formula takes to calculate.
How To: Speed up Excel calculations with helper columns
Are you looking for a way to make your Microsoft Excel formulas simpler, faster and more efficient? If so, you're in the right place. With this free video lesson from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, YouTube's ExcelsFun, the 7th installment in his "Excel Formula Efficiency" series, you'll learn how to count unique records with a formula with a helper column to speed up calculations.
How To: Speed up calculations with custom Excel formulas
Are you looking for a way to make your Microsoft Excel formulas simpler, faster and more efficient? If so, you're in the right place. With this free video lesson from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, YouTube's ExcelsFun, the very first installment in his "Excel Formula Efficiency" series, you'll learn how a custom function (i.e., a user-defined function) can speed up calculations.
How To: Calculate running total by formula in Microsoft Excel
Are you looking for a way to make your Microsoft Excel formulas simpler, faster and more efficient? If so, you're in the right place. With this free video lesson from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, YouTube's ExcelsFun, the 9th installment in his "Excel Formula Efficiency" series, you'll learn see two running total formulas, one that is faster than the other.
How To: Create fast formulas for huge Excel spreadsheets
Are you looking for a way to make your Microsoft Excel formulas simpler, faster and more efficient? If so, you're in the right place. With this free video lesson from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, YouTube's ExcelsFun, the 10th installment in his "Excel Formula Efficiency" series, you'll learn how to use Manual Calculation for huge spreadsheets so that recalculation only occurs when you want it to occur.
How To: Make annuity calculations in Microsoft Excel
As you might guess, one of the domains in which Microsoft Excel really excels is business math. Brush up on the stuff for your next or current job with this how-to. In this tutorial from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, YouTube's ExcelIsFun, the 59th installment in his "Excel Business Math" series of free video lessons, you'll learn what an annuity is and how to make calculations for annuities.
How To: Calculate future value for an annuity in MS Excel
As you might guess, one of the domains in which Microsoft Excel really excels is business math. Brush up on the stuff for your next or current job with this how-to. In this tutorial from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, YouTube's ExcelIsFun, the 60th installment in his "Excel Business Math" series of free video lessons, you'll learn how to use the Excel functions FV and PMT to make a future value calculation for an annuity.
How To: Calculate present value for an annuity in MS Excel
As you might guess, one of the domains in which Microsoft Excel really excels is business math. Brush up on the stuff for your next or current job with this how-to. In this tutorial from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, YouTube's ExcelIsFun, the 61st installment in his "Excel Business Math" series of free video lessons, you'll learn how to use the Excel functions PV and PMT to make a present value calculation for an annuity.
How To: Use the SUMPRODUCT function in Microsoft Excel
Are you looking for a way to make your Microsoft Excel formulas more efficient? If so, you're in the right place. With this free video lesson from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, YouTube's ExcelsFun, the very first installment in his "Excel Formula Efficiency" series, you'll learn about the basics of Excel's SUMPRODUCT function — why some people use double negative and why other use times one.
How To: Find confidence intervals without a sigma in MS Excel
If you use Microsoft Excel on a regular basis, odds are you work with numbers. Put those numbers to work. Statistical analysis allows you to find patterns, trends and probabilities within your data. In this MS Excel tutorial from everyone's favorite Excel guru, YouTube's ExcelsFun, the 84th installment in his "Excel Statistics" series of free video lessons, you'll learn how to construct confidence intervals when the sigma is NOT known using the Descriptive Statistics data analysis add-in.
How To: Use Chebyshev's Theorem in Microsoft Excel
If you use Microsoft Excel on a regular basis, odds are you work with numbers. Put those numbers to work. Statistical analysis allows you to find patterns, trends and probabilities within your data. In this MS Excel tutorial from everyone's favorite Excel guru, YouTube's ExcelsFun, the 46th installment in his "Excel Statistics" series of free video lessons, you'll learn about Chebyshev's Theorem and how to apply it in three different ways.
How To: Calculate a standard (z) score in Microsoft Excel
If you use Microsoft Excel on a regular basis, odds are you work with numbers. Put those numbers to work. Statistical analysis allows you to find patterns, trends and probabilities within your data. In this MS Excel tutorial from everyone's favorite Excel guru, YouTube's ExcelsFun, the 45th installment in his "Excel Statistics" series of free video lessons, you'll learn how to see how to calculate a z-score.
How To: Calculate skew in a distribution in Microsoft Excel
If you use Microsoft Excel on a regular basis, odds are you work with numbers. Put those numbers to work. Statistical analysis allows you to find patterns, trends and probabilities within your data. In this MS Excel tutorial from everyone's favorite Excel guru, YouTube's ExcelsFun, the 44th installment in his "Excel Statistics" series of free video lessons, you'll learn how to use the SKEW function to calculate the skew in a distribution of data.
How To: Use the Microsoft Excel Data Analysis add-in
If you use Microsoft Excel on a regular basis, odds are you work with numbers. Put those numbers to work. Statistical analysis allows you to find patterns, trends and probabilities within your data. In this MS Excel tutorial from everyone's favorite Excel guru, YouTube's ExcelsFun, the 43rd installment in his "Excel Statistics" series of free video lessons, you'll learn how to use the Excel Data Analysis add-in descriptive statistics tool.
How To: Calculate the coefficient of variation (CV) in Excel
If you use Microsoft Excel on a regular basis, odds are you work with numbers. Put those numbers to work. Statistical analysis allows you to find patterns, trends and probabilities within your data. In this MS Excel tutorial from everyone's favorite Excel guru, YouTube's ExcelsFun, the 42nd installment in his "Excel Statistics" series of free video lessons, you'll learn how to calculate the coefficient of variation.
How To: Calculate percentiles and quartiles in Microsoft Excel
f you use Microsoft Excel on a regular basis, odds are you work with numbers. Put those numbers to work. Statistical analysis allows you to find patterns, trends and probabilities within your data. In this MS Excel tutorial from everyone's favorite Excel guru, YouTube's ExcelsFun, the 37th installment in his "Excel Statistics" series of free video lessons, you'll learn how to use the PERCENTILE and QUARTILE functions.
How To: Calculate a trimmed mean in Microsoft Excel
If you use Microsoft Excel on a regular basis, odds are you work with numbers. Put those numbers to work. Statistical analysis allows you to find patterns, trends and probabilities within your data. In this MS Excel tutorial from everyone's favorite Excel guru, YouTube's ExcelsFun, the 36th installment in his "Excel Statistics" series of free video lessons, you'll learn how to calculate a trimmed mean, which is used when there are extreme values in the data set that might skew the mean.
How To: Calculate geometric average in Excel with GEOMEAN
If you use Microsoft Excel on a regular basis, odds are you work with numbers. Put those numbers to work. Statistical analysis allows you to find patterns, trends and probabilities within your data. In this MS Excel tutorial from everyone's favorite Excel guru, YouTube's ExcelsFun, the 35.2nd installment in his "Excel Statistics" series of free video lessons, you'll learn how to use Excel's GEOMEAN function to find geometric mean.
How To: Add the difference between 2 number columns 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 339th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the SUMPRODUCT function to add the difference between two columns of numbers based on two criteria.
How To: Extract email extensions with filters in MS 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 338th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the REPLACE and FIND functions in a new column to extract e-mail extensions, and then use Filter or Advanced Filter to Extract records according to e-mail extension.
How To: Build an Excel table of fraction & percent equivalents
As you might guess, one of the domains in which Microsoft Excel really excels is business math. Brush up on the stuff for your next or current job with this how-to. In this tutorial from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, YouTube's ExcelIsFun, the 24th installment in his "Excel Business Math" series of free video lessons, you'll learn how to build a table of decimal, fraction and percent equivalents. See how fractional formatting can be misleading.
How To: Format whole & decimal numbers in Microsoft Excel
As you might guess, one of the domains in which Microsoft Excel really excels is business math. Brush up on the stuff for your next or current job with this how-to. In this tutorial from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, YouTube's ExcelIsFun, the 8th installment in his "Excel Business Math" series of free video lessons, you'll learn how to work with whole and decimal numbers. See how to write words to represent numbers (for checks). See how formatting can hide decimals.
How To: Create simple math formulas in Microsoft Excel
As you might guess, one of the domains in which Microsoft Excel really excels is business math. Brush up on the stuff for your next or current job with this how-to. In this tutorial from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, YouTube's ExcelIsFun, the 2nd installment in his "Excel Business Math" series of free video lessons, you'll learn how to create math formulas in MS Excel using addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, exponents, and parentheses. See how 2+2*2 is not equal ...
How To: Use Excel's built-in SUM, MOD, LCM & PRODUCT functions
As you might guess, one of the domains in which Microsoft Excel really excels is business math. Brush up on the stuff for your next or current job with this how-to. In this tutorial from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, YouTube's ExcelIsFun, the 5th installment in his "Excel Business Math" series of free video lessons, you'll learn how to use Excel's built-in SUM, AVERAGE, PRODUCT, LCM, QUOTIENT and MOD functions.
How To: Use relative & absolute cell references in MS Excel
As you might guess, one of the domains in which Microsoft Excel really excels is business math. Brush up on the stuff for your next or current job with this how-to. In this tutorial from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, YouTube's ExcelIsFun, the 6th installment in his "Excel Business Math" series of free video lessons, you'll learn about the importance of cell References in Excel formulas and functions. Learn about a relative and absolute cell references in Excel formulas with th...
How To: Calculate future value for a sinking fund in MS Excel
As you might guess, one of the domains in which Microsoft Excel really excels is business math. Brush up on the stuff for your next or current job with this how-to. In this tutorial from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, YouTube's ExcelIsFun, the 48th installment in his "Excel Business Math" series of free video lessons, you'll learn how to use the Excel functions FV and PMT to make a future value calculation for a sinking fund.
How To: Do 1-, 2- & 3-way lookups with Excel's INDEX & MATCH
As you might guess, one of the domains in which Microsoft Excel really excels is business math. Brush up on the stuff for your next or current job with this how-to. In this tutorial from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, YouTube's ExcelIsFun, the 44th installment in his "Excel Business Math" series of free video lessons, you'll learn how to run 1-way, 2-way & 3-way lookups using the INDEX and MATCH functions.
How To: Calculate future value & total interest in MS Excel
As you might guess, one of the domains in which Microsoft Excel really excels is business math. Brush up on the stuff for your next or current job with this how-to. In this tutorial from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, YouTube's ExcelIsFun, the 56th installment in his "Excel Business Math" series of free video lessons, you'll learn how to make calculations for future value and total interest earned.
How To: Make present value calculations in Excel
As you might guess, one of the domains in which Microsoft Excel really excels is business math. Brush up on the stuff for your next or current job with this how-to. In this tutorial from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, YouTube's ExcelIsFun, the 58th installment in his "Excel Business Math" series of free video lessons, you'll learn how to make simple value calculations for the present.
How To: Make discount & proceed calculations in MS Excel
As you might guess, one of the domains in which Microsoft Excel really excels is business math. Brush up on the stuff for your next or current job with this how-to. In this tutorial from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, YouTube's ExcelIsFun, the 55th installment in his "Excel Business Math" series of free video lessons, you'll learn how to make basic discount and proceed calculations in Microsoft Excel.
How To: Work with cost & selling price markup in MS Excel
As you might guess, one of the domains in which Microsoft Excel really excels is business math. Brush up on the stuff for your next or current job with this how-to. In this tutorial from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, YouTube's ExcelIsFun, the 48th installment in his "Excel Business Math" series of free video lessons, you'll learn about the basics of markup on cost and markup on selling price. Markup on cost uses the base cost. Markup on selling price uses the base selling price.
How To: Calculate markup on cost in Microsoft Excel
As you might guess, one of the domains in which Microsoft Excel really excels is business math. Brush up on the stuff for your next or current job with this how-to. In this tutorial from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, YouTube's ExcelIsFun, the 49th installment in his "Excel Business Math" series of free video lessons, you'll learn how to make calculations for markup on cost in MS Excel.