Hot Microsoft Office How-Tos
How To: Calculate days with Microsoft Excel's INT 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 300th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use date and time functions together. Specifically, you'll see how to use the INT function to calculate total days worked and the TEXT function to calculate total hours worked.
How To: Create date labels with YEAR, DATE & TEXT 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 300th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the YEAR, DATE and TEXT functions and the ampersand (concatenation) to create a date label that adds leading zeros appropriately.
How To: Fix date problems 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 301st installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to change Regional Settings to force Excel to accept 20th century (1900) dates.
How To: Use templates in MS Word
Templates are an excellent way to save time and increase your productivity when you're working in Microsoft Word. There are a number of templates already in the program from headings to endings of letters. You can even create your own templates to customize the program for yourself. This video tutorial will show you how to use templates in MS Word.
How To: Add leading zeroes to a text string 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 247th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to add leading zeros to a text string with an array formula.
How To: Do time calculations with Microsoft Excel's MOD
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 286th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to calculate hours worked for a night shift where workers start at 9 PM and end at 5 AM.
How To: Find sales price given cost & sales markup 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 285th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to calculate a sales price given cost and markup on said price.
How To: Count characters & numbers within a string 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 288th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to count the number of characters or numbers in a text string with a formula that is case sensitive.
How To: Count codes from a column 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 290th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to count codes from a column of text strings that have multiple codes.
How To: Reverse first & last names by formula 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 292nd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to extract first and last names from an Excel spreadsheet and rearrange them using a formula.
How To: Count words separated by commas 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 289th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to count words separated by commas using the LEN & SUBSTITUTE functions in a formula.
How To: Count unique & duplicate records 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 272nd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to count unique records and duplicate records using the SUMPRODUCT, COUNTIF, COUNT, COUNTA, IF and SUM functions.
How To: Download & install the Microsoft Excel MoreFunc add-in
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 276th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to download and install the MoreFunc supplementary function add-in.
How To: Add a series of text string 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 277th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the SUBSTITUTE and Morefunc EVAL functions to take a text string series of numbers and add them.
How To: Return every tenth value in an 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 278th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the INDEX and ROWS functions to write a formula that will return each 10th value and place them all in a column.
How To: Conditionally format with MS Excel's DATEDIF 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 271st installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use conditional formatting and the DATEDIF function to add formatting to a cell based on the content of a different cell.
How To: Reduce a column of numbers by a percentage 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 275th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to reduce a column of numbers by a set percentage (in this case, 35%) quickly!
How To: Autohighlight the highest value in a row 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 268th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to apply a conditional format that will highlight the maximum value in a row using a true/false formula.
How To: Extract records from an Excel table using two criteria
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 186.5th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use an advanced filter to extract records from a table with 2 criteria.
How To: Extract a person's middle name from a cell 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 191st installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to how to extract part of a text string using a formula with the functions MID, LEFT and FIND.
How To: Extract a prefix from a product ID 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 224th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to extract a prefix from product ID when there is no dash or space to establish a pattern.
How To: Count instances of a character in a 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 223rd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to count individual letters in a word. See how to count the occurrence of a given character in a text string.
How To: Find & count the longest or shortest word 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 196th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to find and count the longest and shortest words/strings with the MAX, MIN and LEN functions in an array formula.
How To: Count characters (including spaces) with LEN 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 221st installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the LEN function to count charters including spaces. Then see how to use the LEN, SUBSTITUTE, and TRIM function to count characters but not unwanted spaces.
How To: Create Excel formulas to solve business math problems
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 207th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to set up and solve a business math word problem in Excel.
How To: Make an Excel gradebook that drops the 2 lowest scores
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 196th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the SUM, SMALL and VLOOKUP functions to create a gradebook (or grade book) based on a total score minus the two lowest scores.
How To: Create a weighted gradebook 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 197th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the SUM and VLOOKUP functions to create a grade book based on a specified total score with weights assigned to different categories.
How To: Create sequential numbers in Excel formulas with ROWS
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 203rd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create sequential numbers in formulas using the ROWS function.
How To: Count dates within a given month 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 220th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a formula with the SUMPRODUCT and EOMONTH functions that count the dates in each month for a given range of dates.
How To: Create a dynamic range with Excel's OFFSET 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 219th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a dynamic range with the OFFSET function so a macro to create a pivot table will work even when new records are added.
How To: Automatically create pivot tables 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 218th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to an Excel 2007 table to create a dynamic range so a macro to create a pivot table will work even when new records are added.
How To: Set & insert a formula name into an Excel print area
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 215th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a named formula with OFFSET & COUNTIF functions that defines a print area, and then insert the formula name into the print area name.
How To: Create an Excel pivot table with 4-variable tabulation
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 216th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a pivot table (PivotTable) with 4-variable cross tabulation. Learn to use multiple fields in a pivot table with this free video tutorial.
How To: Create a simple IF function formula with text 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 217th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a simple If function formula that uses a logical test that involves text (instead of a number).
How To: Extract data with a dynamic non-array Excel formula
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 213th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a non-array formula to extract data dynamically using two different methods.
How To: Get data from an Excel table with filter & copy/paste
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 212th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to records from an Excel database/ table/list with a filter and copy-paste trick.
How To: Add scatter & bar data series to an Excel chart
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 204th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to add a mean value as a scatter diagram data series to a box plot or box & whisker that is set up as a bar chart.
How To: Use ctrl-enter keyboard shortcuts 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 208th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the keyboard ctrl-enter keyboard shortcuts to speed up common tasks in Microsoft Excel.
How To: Force a stuck formula to calculate 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 210th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn what to do if your formula does not calculate and is showing the equal sign and the rest of the formula without calculating.
How To: Add with case-sensitive 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 204th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the SUMPRODUCT and EXACT functions in an array formula to add the sales for a sales representative where lower and upper letters matter (i.e., are case sensitive) in the criteria (conditions).