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How To: Merge two list tables and delete duplicates 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 381st installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to merge two lists into one list while keeping unique items from list 1 and list 2 and removing duplicates.

How To: Match two lists 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 382nd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to match values in lists and, where there are matches, take the second column from each table and put it in new table.

How To: Sort data in Excel

ShowMeAcademy.com shows how to sort data in Excel 2007. Excel has many options for sorting data according to any given column. To sort your data, right click on a cell in the column that you want to sort by. A menu comes up where you will see the “Sort” option. Hold your mouse over “Sort” and another menu comes up showing the different ways to sort. For example, if you select “Sort Smallest to Largest” it will take all the data and sort it from the row that has the lowest figure u...

How To: Generate random letters without RANDBETWEEN 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 385th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to generate random letters without RANDBETWEEN function using the formula =CHAR(65+INT(RAND()*26)).

How To: Use comparative operators with letters 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 386th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to add conditional formatting for letters less than the letter M. Yes! Comparative operators like less than (<) work on letters!

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: 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: 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: Return the address of the 1st non-blank 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 363rd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create an array formula using the ADDRESS, MIN, IF, COLUMN & ROW functions that will return the address of the first non-blank cell in your Excel spreadsheet.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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.