Hot Microsoft Office How-Tos
How To: Add every other number in a 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 377th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to add every other number with the SUMPRODUCT, MOD and ROW functions in one formula.
How To: Format field 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 378th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to format field names. If field names have formatting, Excel understands that they are field names and should not be used as data.
How To: Round to the nearest 1/10th of an hour 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 379th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to round hours worked to the 1/10th of an hour using ROUND and MROUND functions.
How To: Count only even or odd numbers 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 370th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the SUMPRODUCT and MOD functions in formula to count either odd or even numbers.
How To: Find dates with Microsoft Excel's WORKDAY function
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 372nd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to find the end date for a specified event with the WORKDAY function given a start date, number of workdays and non-included days.
How To: Select numbers from a set without repeats 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 373rd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to select 3 numbers from 50 with no repeats. Also see how to select 3 names from a list of 10 with no repeats.
How To: Copy non-contiguous columns of 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 375th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to copy non-contiguous columns of data and then paste all the columns at once.
How To: Conditionally format odd & even numbers 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 370th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to apply conditional formatting to even and odd numbers using a TRUE/FALSE formula with the MOD function.
How To: Create a line chart mapping blood pressure 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 361st installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a dynamic two data series line chart for blood pressures.
How To: Create a custom toolbar in Microsoft Excel 2003
This video describes how to create a custom toolbar in excel. First we have to go to tools menu in the excel. Next take the option of customize there and then choose the toolbars there. Next there will be the option “new” tab in that box. You have to select it first and then give a name the toolbar, which you are going to create. Then will be get the tool bar. Next if you want to add the buttons to the toolbar that you have created now, you have to go to commands tab. Then you will get ca...
How To: Return a row's first non-blank cell 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 364th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create an array formula using the INDEX, MATCH & NOT functions that will return cell content from the first non-blank cell in a row.
How To: Pull an Excel cell value from the first non-blank row
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 365th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use an amazing non-array formula to return the cell content from the first non-blank cell in a specified row.
How To: Create a dynamic area 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 351st installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create an area chart for x and f(x) data as well as how to use the IF function to show a second data set plotted to show a specific area section.
How To: Apply conditional formatting to a row of data 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 6th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to add conditional formatting to a whole row of data in an Excel sheet.
How To: Pull data from a master sheet 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 357th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to pull data from individual sheets to a single master sheet given improper data setup.
How To: Create a mortgage calculator 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 355th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use VLOOKUP to create a mortgage calculator that can handle four different types of loans: begin annuity, end annuity, interest only and "other."
How To: Use Excel's VLOOKUP with dates to retrieve the season
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 353rd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to make date calculations with Excel's VLOOKUP formula (e.g., finding approximate matches and returning a season for a date within a given range).
How To: Highlight Excel values repeated a set number of times
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 350th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use conditional formatting and the COUNTIF function to highlight values that are repeated a given number of times.
How To: Use Microsoft Excel's MAX IF & RANK functions
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 344th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to find the max value given more than one critereon (i.e., multiple criteria).
How To: Format numbers to display exponents 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 346th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to format your numbers to show exponents and see how to create a formula that uses exponents.
How To: Round to an increment without MROUND 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 347th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to round to an increment when you do not have MROUND function.
How To: Do date calculations 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 12th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to calculate the time between 2 dates like invoices past due. Learn how to calculate a loan due date or how many days you have been alive!
How To: Measure variation in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet
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 11th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to measure variation in a spreadsheet using functions like STDEV.
How To: Add data to an Excel cell range via keyboard shortcut
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 4th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to add data or a formula to a range of cells by using the Excel's ever-useful ctrl+enter keyboard shortcut.
How To: Break up an entry into multiple 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 8th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to take a column of text and break it apart into separate columns using Excel's text-to-column tool.
How To: Clear formatting from a cell 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 7th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to remove the formatting from a given Excel cell without erasing the cell content!
How To: Delete blank rows from a list 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 343rd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to delete blanks rows en masse from a list within an Excel spreadsheet.
How To: Retrieve cell references with INDEX & MATCH 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 341st installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the INDEX and MATCH functions together to retrieve a cell reference that the OFFSET function can use for its reference argument.
How To: Find a weighted percent dropping 2 scores 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 340th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the SMALL and LARGE functions and array syntax to retrieve more than one value.
How To: Insert text into a test string with Excel's REPLACE
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 332nd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to insert text into a test string with the REPLACE function as well as how to insert a part of a product ID into a longer product ID.
How To: Fix #DIV/0 errors with Excel 2007's IF & ISERROR tools
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 333th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to fix errors with the Excel 2007 IFERROR and the Excel 2003 IF & ISERROR functions.
How To: Count words with the COUNTIF function 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 266th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn see how COUNT and COUNTA have trouble counting only words or text and how to use a handy workaround.
How To: Calculate percentage change 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 267th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to calculate percentage change using a simple universal formula: (End Value)/Beg Value)/Beg Value = Percentage Change.
How To: Link tasks in Microsoft Project 2007
In this Software video tutorial you will learn how to link tasks in Microsoft Project 2007. There are four ways to link a task. Finish to start is the default, then you have start to start, finish to finish and start to finish. Here you will see how to link up two tasks and what is the dependency between them. There are various methods of creating dependency between two tasks. One method is to select the two tasks and click on the ‚Äòlink tasks‚Äô button on the tool bar or you can go to the ‚...
How To: Version contacts between MS Outlook and Cosential
In this Software video tutorial you will learn how to version contacts between MS Outlook and Cosential. Download and install a simple application called ‘ethnosinstaller’. On the first run, Cosential will import all your contacts from Outlook. On the first run, login with your account details and then you can either create a new folder or use an existing folder. You can also download an existing task list or create a new one. Next step is to update your contacts. Click on ‘update’ on...
How To: Use basic functions in Excel (AVERAGE, COUNT, MIN/MAX)
This video shows us how to use the following functions in Excel: average, count, counta, min, max, and sum. First, start off by create a set of numbers to work with. After that, click on an empty cell that you want to use for the functions. To do an average, click on the functions button on the top right corner of the menu bar, you'll see a list of all the functions that are available. Select average, and then highlight all the numbers that you want to find the average of. Repeat the exact sa...
How To: Use a keyboard shortcut to create a chart in Excel 07
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 2nd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create charts via keyboard shortcut as well as how to create dynamic charts with cell references.
How To: Create simple formulas with cell references 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 very first installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to build your spreadsheet smartly, so it updates automatically by creating formulas with cell references!
How To: Calculate probabilities with Excel's NORMDIST function
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 22nd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the NORMDIST function to calculate probabilities for a population with a normal (bell) distribution! You even get to see the four types of situations that you most commonly encounter -- plus visual pictures of each situation...
How To: Calculate probabilities with Excel's BINOMDIST 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 21st installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the BINOMDIST function to calculate probabilities for a binomial experiment - binomial distribution!