Hot Microsoft Office How-Tos

How To: Average with the MONTH function in Microsoft Excel

Love Microsoft Excel? This clip contains a tip that just might induce you to. With this free video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 90th installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll see a complicated average calculation with multiple criteria using the MONTH function on a date field. Learn to love digital spreadsheets more perfectly with the tricks outlined in this free Microsoft Office how-to.

How To: Apply conditional formatting to a row in MS Excel

Love Microsoft Excel? This clip contains a tip that just might induce you to. With this free video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 80th installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn how to highlight an entire record (row) in a database that matches a bounced email addresss. Learn to love digital spreadsheets more perfectly with the tricks outlined in this free Microsoft Office how-to.

How To: Retrieve data from many tables on many sheets in Excel

Love Microsoft Excel? This clip contains a tip that just might induce you to. With this free video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 77th installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn how to do a complicated payroll formula when tax data must be retrieved from multiple tables. See how to use the INDEX, INDIRECT AND MATCH functions in one big formula to retrieve tax data from multiple tables on multiple sheets. Learn to love digital spreadshe...

How To: Use custom number formatting with zeroes in MS Excel

Love Microsoft Excel? This clip contains a tip that just might induce you to. With this free video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 73rd installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn how to add custom number formatting in the format cells dialog box for 00001, 09745 and 989-85-1253. Learn to love digital spreadsheets more perfectly with the tricks outlined in this free Microsoft Office how-to.

How To: Clean up a bad data set for a pivot table in MS Excel

Love Microsoft Excel? This clip contains a tip that just might induce you to. With this free video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 70th installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn how to clean up a bad data set with the TRIM function before building a pivot table (PivotTable) to calculate an average. Learn to love digital spreadsheets more perfectly with the tricks outlined in this free Microsoft Office how-to.

How To: Calculate variable commission totals in MS Exce

Love Microsoft Excel? This clip contains a tip that just might induce you to. With this free video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 46th installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn how to use the DOLLAR, VLOOKUP, INDEX and MATCH functions and a previous bracket commission formula trick to calculate total commissions when you have variable commissions paid out. Learn to love digital spreadsheets more perfectly with the tricks outlined in t...

How To: Use the "Unique Records Only" filter in MS Excel

Love Microsoft Excel? This clip contains a tip that just might induce you to. With this free video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 63.5th installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn how to use the advanced filter "Unique Records Only" option and the VLOOKUP, COLUMN, IF, ISERROR and IFERROR functions to merge 2 tables.

How To: Evaluate vendors with array formulas in MS Excel

Love Microsoft Excel? This clip contains a tip that just might induce you to. With this free video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 63rd installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn how to create an array formula to find the vendor with the maximum rating and the lowest cost Learn to love digital spreadsheets more perfectly with the tricks outlined in this free Microsoft Office how-to.

How To: Look up data from different Excel tables with INDIRECT

Love Microsoft Excel? This clip contains a tip that just might induce you to. With this free video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 62nd installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn how to use the VLOOKUP and INDIRECT functions to look up values from different tables. Learn to love digital spreadsheets more perfectly with the tricks outlined in this free Microsoft Office how-to.

How To: Avoid a #NUM! error when changing NPER inputs in Excel

Love Microsoft Excel? This clip contains a tip that just might induce you to. With this free video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 57th installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn how to avoid a #NUM! error when changing the formula input numbers for the NPER function. Learn to love digital spreadsheets more perfectly with the tricks outlined in this free Microsoft Office how-to.

How To: Remove duplicate entries with Excel's COUNTIF function

Love Microsoft Excel? This clip contains a tip that just might induce you to. With this free video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 55th installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn how to use the Excel 2007 remove duplicates tool and the COUNTIF function to count unique records that are greater than $30. Learn to love digital spreadsheets more perfectly with the tricks outlined in this free Microsoft Office how-to.

How To: Count unique records exceeding a hurdle in MS Excel

Love Microsoft Excel? This clip contains a tip that just might induce you to. With this free video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 54th installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn how to count records exceeding a given hurdle using Excel's advanced filter tool. Learn to love digital spreadsheets more perfectly with the tricks outlined in this free Microsoft Office how-to.

How To: Add a workbook reference to an Excel VLOOKUP formula

Love Microsoft Excel? This clip contains a tip that just might induce you to. With this free video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 52nd installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn how to have one workbook look into another workbook using a workbook reference. See also how to update workbook references. Learn to love digital spreadsheets more perfectly with the tricks outlined in this free Microsoft Office how-to.

How To: Create a macro & assign it to a form button in Excel

Love Microsoft Excel? This clip contains a tip that just might induce you to. With this free video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 50th installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn how to create a basic macro and then assign the macro to a form button. Learn to love digital spreadsheets more perfectly with the tricks outlined in this free Microsoft Office how-to.

How To: Prevent duplicate entries in an Excel spreadsheet

Love Microsoft Excel? This clip contains a tip that just might induce you to. With this free video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 41st installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn how to use a true/false formula with the COUNTIF function to prevent duplicate entries in a list. Learn to love digital spreadsheets more perfectly with the tricks outlined in this free Microsoft Office how-to.

How To: Change an Excel table's conditional formatting with DV

Love Microsoft Excel? This clip contains a tip that just might induce you to. With this free video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 43rd installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn use a data validation drop-down list to change conditional formatting in a table. Learn to love digital spreadsheets more perfectly with the tricks outlined in this free Microsoft Office how-to.

How To: Convert a text formula/function to a number in Excel

Love Microsoft Excel? This clip contains a tip that just might induce you to. With this free video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 44th installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn use 4 different tricks to convert a text formula or function to a number. Also see how to convert text to numbers. Learn to love digital spreadsheets more perfectly with the tricks outlined in this free Microsoft Office how-to.

How To: Calculate monthly sales with Excel's SUMPRODUCT & TEXT

Love Microsoft Excel? This clip contains a tip that just might induce you to. With this free video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 45th installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn how to use the SUMPRODUCT & TEXT functions together in 1 formula to sum the month's sales. Learn to love digital spreadsheets more perfectly with the tricks outlined in this free Microsoft Office how-to.

How To: Look up a time value with Excel's VLOOKUP function

Love Microsoft Excel? This clip contains a tip that just might induce you to. With this free video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 48th installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn how to use the VLOOKUP, ISTEXT, ISBLANK, OR and IF functions in one formula to look up a time value. Learn to love digital spreadsheets more perfectly with the tricks outlined in this free Microsoft Office how-to.

How To: Extract the top 5 values from a given list in MS Excel

Love Microsoft Excel? This clip contains a tip that just might induce you to. With this free video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 40th installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn how to use the filter and advanced filter tools to extract the top 5 values from a list. Learn to love digital spreadsheets more perfectly with the tricks outlined in this free Microsoft Office how-to.

How To: Find the first instance of an item in Microsoft Excel

Love Microsoft Excel? This clip contains a tip that just might induce you to. With this free video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 32nd installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn how to use the MATCH & ROW functions to create a logical test to find the first occurrence of items in a list with duplicates.. Learn to love digital spreadsheets more perfectly with the tricks outlined in this free Microsoft Office how-to.

How To: Set-up your Gmail account with Outlook

lakercoolman shows us how to set up our gmail account with this quick tutorial. Basically outlook express is a program that helps us to organize our email with added features such as contacts, to do lists and calender entries. Its an offline email client that allows us to work offline and also lets us set up exchange servers aswell. Ohter email servers such as hotmail and yahoo charge for thios service but the advantage of gmail is that IMAP or POP access is free. in ofer to set up, navigate ...

How To: Setup email in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007

In this Software video tutorial you will learn how to setup email in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007. Suppose you have a Yahoo email id and you want it in Outlook, go to tools > account settings > email > new and fill out the details. Then check the box next to ‘manually configure server settings’ and click ‘next’. In the next box, choose the 1st option and click ‘next’. To get the information for filling up in the next box, go to the Yahoo page shown in the video and copy and paste...

How To: Find & extract duplicate records from a data set

This video is about finding duplicate entries in excel sheet. The example excel sheet contains different names. There are around 1000 different names in the sample excel sheet. CountIf(range,criteria) formula has been used to do the comparison and return of results in True or False mode. Type =CountIf( now move your left arrow key, this will generate the formula like =CountIf(A2. Now press Ctrl+Shift+Down arrow, this will select all the available values in the column. Now press F4 to lock it ...

How To: Summarize data in Excel with the consolidation feature

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 90th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the consolidation feature in Excel. Summarize data from a number of different tables quickly using consolidation.

How To: Deliver words to a cell via IF, AND & VLOOKUP in Excel

Love Microsoft Excel? This clip contains a tip that just might induce you to. With this free video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 35th installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn how to use the IF, AND and VLOOKUP functions to deliver the words Bid, No Bid, or Alert to a cell. Is VLOOKUP better than IF AND? Find out with this free video lesson.

How To: Use a VLOOKUP function inside a text formula in Excel

Love Microsoft Excel? This clip contains a tip that just might induce you to. With this free video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 51st installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn how to use a VLOOKUP function inside a Text Formula to add a variable word (e.g., Annual, Semi-Annual, Quarterly, Monthly, or Weekly).

How To: Extract only numbers from a text string array forumla

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 489th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to extract only the numbers from a text string. This is accomplished with recourse to Excel's LEN, INDIRECT, ROW, MID, ISNUMBER, INDEX, LARGE, SUMPRODUCT, and SUM functions.