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How To: Randomly generate words 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 19th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the CHOOSE and RANDBETWEEN functions to randomly generate words.
How To: Randomly generate letters 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 18th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the ROW, CHAR and RANDBETWEEN functions to randomly generate letters. See also how to randomly create letter sequences.
How To: Randomly generate whole 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 17th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the RANDBETWEEN function to randomly generate whole numbers as well as how to randomly assign numbers to employees.
How To: Add & count above a specified limit 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 15th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the SUMIF and COUNTIF functions to add and count above some limit.
How To: Extract characters without leading zeroes 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 331st installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to extract individual characters without extracting the leading zeroes through use of the MID, VALUE and COLUMNS functions.
How To: Make an Excel Gantt chart that highlights workdays
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 327th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a Gantt Chart that will include highlight the workdays one color and weekends and holidays another color.
How To: Use Excel's VLOOKUP function without a first column
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 328th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use VLOOKUP when you do not have a first column to use for lookup.
How To: Deal with a circular reference warning 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 214th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to deal with a circular reference warning in a formula.
How To: Create a dynamic date list for a DV dropdown 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 324th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a dynamic list of dates for a data validation drop-down list.
How To: Extrapolate given daily fixed costs 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 325th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a formula that takes a fixed daily cost and calculates the monthly total for months with different number of days.
How To: Create a hyperlink from one Excel sheet to another
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 326th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a hyperlink from one sheet to another in the same workbook.
How To: Sum lookup items 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 320th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the SUMPRODUCT & SUMIF functions together to look up multiple items and add them in one cell.
How To: Do a reverse-order VLOOKUP with Excel's INDEX & MATCH
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 319th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to run a VLOOKUP in reverse order using the INDEX & MATCH functions and custom number formatting.
How To: Extract substrings with Microsoft Excel's MID 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 317th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to extract data (specifically, a substring from string) using the MID Function.
How To: Extract data with the MID function 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 318th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to extract data with the MID function and use VLOOKUP to retrieve a date.
How To: Match text substrings with an array formula 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 321st installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to match text substrings with an array formula that uses the AND, ISNUMBER and SEARCH functions.
How To: Extract data with an AND/NOT advanced filter 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 322nd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create an advanced filter to extract with AND and NOT criteria.
How To: Run a partial text lookup 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 323rd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to run a partial text lookup query using a VLOOKUP function with wild card criteria.
How To: Determine whether a given item in a list 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 119th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to determine if a particular item is in a list of items using two formulas: a ISNUMBER & MATCH function formula & a COUNTIF function formula.
How To: Convert TRUE & FALSE values to 1 & 0 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 314th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn four different methods for converting TRUE and FALSE values to 1 and 0 (zeroes).
How To: Work with array formulas 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 313th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to get started using array formulas in your Excel projects.
How To: Extract dates and times from a database field 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 312th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the DATE, MID, LEFT and TIME functions to extract dates and times from a database field that stores dates and times as a text string.
How To: Verify an ID prefix 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 311th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn three different methods for determing whether a Produt ID prefix matches a second specified prefix.
How To: Use Excel's DSUM & DMAX functions with date 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 310th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the DSUM and DMAX with date criteria.
How To: Use partial text matching 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 309th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to check to see if an item in first list is second another list, even if there is text before or after the item using the LOOKUP, SEARCH and ISNUMBER functions.
How To: Invert a range of values 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 307th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the INDEX, ROWS, COLUMNS, LARGE, SMALL functions to create 4 different formulas that will invert a range of values.
How To: Concatenate with 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 316th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to count & list unique values as well as how to concatenate a range of values with a separator.
How To: Randomly select names 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 302nd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the INDEX & MRAND functions to randomly select names without repeats.
How To: Add a secondary axis to a 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 304th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to add a secondary axis to a chart so that you have axes on the left and right.
How To: Use the MCONCAT function 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 306th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use MCONCAT & LOOKUP functions to lookup values from a table and add results. Also see a formula that uses exponents instead of the MCONCAT concatenation function to look up and sum table values.
How To: Sum only certain columns 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 297th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to select varying columns for summing (adding).
How To: Conditionally format an Excel column-row intersection
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 296th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to add conditional formatting to a row, a column and the intersection of the two with three different colors.
How To: Conditionally sum from varying columns 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 297.5th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to conditionally sum from various columns.
How To: Sum the values from many cells to a single Excel cell
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 298th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the SUMPRODUCT and MOD function to add up all hours in one cell worked by employees when time in and time out data are entered as time values.
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.