Hot Microsoft Office How-Tos
How To: Create a table of formulas and labels 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 37th installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn how to create a table of formulas and labels based on formula inputs in an assumption area.
How To: Deliver the sheet tab name to a cell 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 39th installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn how to use the RIGHT, LEN, FIND & REPLACE functions in a formula to deliver a sheet tab name to a cell!
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: Find an increase in value with an Excel rating scale
Love Microsoft Excel? This clip contains a tip that just might induce you to. With this free video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 36th installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn how to use the VLOOKUP function to determine an increase in salary based on a rating scale.
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.
How To: User a hyperlink to open a different workbook 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 487th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use a hyperlink to open a different workbook, file or sheet within the existing workbook.
How To: Use the borders tab when formatting cells 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 504th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the borders tab in the Format Cells dialog box to create a 3D effect.
How To: Format time and make time calculations 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 501st installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to work with time in Excel, making calculations and formatting temporal values.
How To: Use SUMIFS or SUMPRODUCT to get invoice info 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 497th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll see a formula that uses SUMIFS or SUMPRODUCT functions that will take invoice information for inventory quantity sold and update inventory records to show correct amount on hand (in stock) for each store or branch of the company.
How To: Fix poorly set up data in Microsoft 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 507th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to take badly setup data (not in database/table format) and summarize it by date and shipping name into table format report.
How To: Do bankers' and arithmetical rounding ways 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 521st installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to round numbers two different ways.
How To: Find values with the INDEX & MATCH functions 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 517th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the INDEX and MATCH functions to show vendor name associated with lowest bid.
How To: Create an amortization table in Microsoft 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 515th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create an amortization table that will update when you pay extra principal so that loan is paid off early. See also how to make changes to a template, get into trouble, then trouble shoot your way out of it so that you can fix ...
How To: Use the FIND & REPLACE functions in Microsoft 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 519th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the FIND and REPLACE functions in Microsoft Excel.
How To: Make calculations for 30 day months in Microsoft 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 522nd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to make calculations for companies that use 30 day months.
How To: Extract records using MS Excel's advanced filter tool
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 525th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to extract records using advanced filter and wild-card criteria. See, for example, how to extract records that start with the letters W or J.
How To: Create a pass-fail grade formula in Microsoft 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 529th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a pass-fail grading formula using the IF and AND and VLOOKUP functions.
How To: Enter VLOOKUPs in 4 different ways in Microsoft 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 527th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to enter VLOOKUPs 3rd Argument in four different ways: Number, COLUMN function, COLUMNS function, or MATCH function. col_index_num or Column Number for VLOOKUP
How To: Count with two criteria in Microsoft 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 529th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the SUMPRODUCT and COUNTIFS functions to count how many sales you made for a given product over the last 7 days.
How To: Count blanks in an dynamic range in Microsoft 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 532nd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to count blanks in a dynamic range using the COUNTIF, INDEX, MATCH, COUNTA and OFFSET functions. Learn about the difference between an empty cell and a blank. Also see how to create dynamic ranges with INDEX and OFFSET (Index:Index).
How To: Extract numbers from middle of text in Microsoft 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 531st installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to extract numbers from the middle of a text string (e.g., BB34G) becomes 34.
How To: List all modes in a multimodal data set 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 536th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to list all modes in a given multimodal data set using Excel 2010's MODE.MULT function.
How To: Check to see if a string contains a value 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 530th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the OR, SEARCH and ISNUMBER functions to see if the descriptions in a data set contain a given value (in this case, "Repair" or "Rework").
How To: Change a pivot table's source data in Microsoft 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 556th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to change the source data for a pivot table (PivotTable).
How To: Calculate commissions with Excel's IF & VLOOKUP
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 555th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the IF and VLOOKUP functions to make one of two types of commission calculations based on what is put in the referral column.
How To: Sum dollar amounts from a column in Micrsoft 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 553rd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the CELL and SUMIF functions to sum Dollar and Euro amounts from a column.
How To: Look up & retrieve a row of data from a table 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 552nd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to look up and retrieve a row of data from a table and display it vertically using the VLOOKUP and ROWS functions.
How To: Count certain days of the week in Microsoft 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 551st installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll see a great non-array formula for counting Mondays between a start and end date.
How To: Use VLOOKUP to verify a record is in an Excel table
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 558th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to check if a record is in a table using VLOOKUP. See how to do this for a 2 column (field) table and a 4 column (field) table. See also how to add a concatenated column and concatenate lookup_value in VLOOKUP function.
How To: Extract the nth word from a text string 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 559th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to extract the first, last or nth word from a text string using Excel's SUBSTITUTE, LEN, SEARCH, REPLACE, LEFT, RIGHT and MID functions.
How To: Use the * and ? wildcards in Microsoft 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 561st installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the * and ? COUNTIF wildcards in Excel.
How To: Extract first, middle, & last names in Microsoft 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 562nd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to extract first, middle and last names when the list contains names where some have a middle name and some do not using the LEFT, SEARCH, LEN, SUBSTITUTE, LEN, MID and IF functions.
How To: Sort data horizontally by formula in Microsoft 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 471st installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to sort horizontally with 3 different formulas that use the LARGE, SMALL, COLUMNS, IFERROR and IF functions.
How To: Return a sorted list based on row values in MS Excel
return a descending sorted list of country names based on the values in a row using an array formula that itself makes use of Excel's INDEX, MATCH, RANK, COLUMN and COLUMNS functions.
How To: Conditionally format a bar chart in Microsoft 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 566th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the IF functions and a bar chart to create a conditionally formatted chart for students scores that exceed a given hurdle.
How To: Create a line chart with time as its x-axis 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 284th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a line chart from years and percentage change. See how Excel makes the chart wrong, but then see how to fix it.
How To: Make a chart from noncontiguous data in Excel 2007
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 258th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to make charts from noncontiguous data in MS Excel.
How To: Look up approximate values with VLOOKUP 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 112th installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn how to solve a common VLOOKUP problem — how to look up approximate values. If the lookup table for the VLOOKUP function is looking up approximate values, the first column of the table must be sorted in ascending order. Learn to love digital spreadsheets more p...
How To: Hide columns and select only visible cells 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 34th installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn how to hide columns, select visible cells only, and then copy and paste just those visible cells (all with and without the use of formulas). Learn to love digital spreadsheets more perfectly with the tricks outlined in this free Microsoft Office how-to.
How To: Sort and extract by cell color in Microsoft Excel 2007
Love Microsoft Excel? This clip contains a tip that just might induce you to. With this free video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 33rd installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn how to sort by color in Excel 2007 as well as how to use the copy and paste tools to extract records. Learn to love digital spreadsheets more perfectly with the tricks outlined in this free Microsoft Office how-to.