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How To: Extract the top five records from a table in Excel
New to 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 Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 273rd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to extract the top (i.e., max high) 5 values and their associated names from a column allowing for duplicates. This is accomplished with recourse to Excel's TRANSPOSE, COUNTIF, MAX, INDIRECT, IF, COLUMNS, INDEX, SMALL and ROW functions.
How To: Use the BINOMDIST & NORMSDIST functions in Excel
New to 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 Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 274th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to calculate various probabilities for a binomial distribution when there are additional complicating factors. This is accomplished with recourse to Excel's BINOMDIST, NORMSDIST, SUMIF, SUM, INDEX and MATCH functions. See also how to create th...
How To: Format proper & improper fractions in Microsoft Excel
Tearing yourself to pieces trying to format fractions in Microsoft Excel? Give this video tutorial from everyone's favorite YouTube Excel guru, ExcelIsFun, your undivided attention. With it, you'll learn how to format fractional values via the custom number formatting tool in the number tab in the format cells dialog box. This video discusses proper, improper, like, unlike and mixed fractions.
How To: Add and subtract simple fractions in Microsoft Excel
Tearing yourself to pieces trying to solve fractions in Microsoft Excel? Give this video tutorial from everyone's favorite YouTube Excel guru, ExcelIsFun, your undivided attention. With it, you'll learn how to use Excel to add and subtract fractions and mixed numbers as well as how to find lowest common denominators.
How To: Solve simple fraction word problems in Microsoft Excel
Having trouble solving fraction word problems? Give this video tutorial from YouTube Excel guru, ExcelIsFun, your undivided attention. With it, you'll learn how to format fractions as decimals with up to 15 places, come to understand divisibility rules for numbers 1-9, and work with a number of real-world examples.
How To: Generate random numbers not divisible by 3 in Excel
New to 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 Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 261st installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to generate random numbers within a certain range and with certain supplementary criteria (e.g., values that are not divisible by three) via the use of large array formulas.
How To: Use an Excel macro with relative & absolute references
New to 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 Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 264th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use a recorded macro to take a data set and add a new column, concatenate data from 3 columns, and delete unwanted columns.
How To: Create a waterfall profit chart in Microsoft Excel
New to 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 Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 246th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a waterfall profit chart from a stacked column chart.
How To: Use the PERCENTILE & QUARTILE functions in MS Excel
New to 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 Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 248th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the PERCENTILE and QUARTILE functions to calculate percentiles, quartiles and deciles in basic statistics.
How To: Use precision number rounding in Microsoft Excel
New to 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 Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 237th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to
How To: Use Excel databases for home improvement calculations
New to 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 Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 236th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a database for keeping carpentry measurements as well as how to use a COUNTIF function formula for calculating how many lumber pieces you'll need to cut for your home improvement project.
How To: Convert degrees to radians with Excel's trig functions
New to 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 Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 234th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to convert between degrees and radians in Excel with trigonometric functions and formulas. Rad!
How To: Sum with three criteria by array formula in Excel
New to 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 Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 232nd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to conditionally sum by array formula in Microsoft Excel.
How To: Format a cell with reference to another in Excel
New to 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 Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 270th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to
How To: Create a box plot or box-and-whisker chart in MS Excel
New to 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 Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 124th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a box plot or box-&-whisker chart using a stacked bar chart and a open-high-low-close stock chart. You'll also learn how to use the QUARTILE function.
How To: Use the COUNTIF function in Microsoft Excel
New to 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 Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 180th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to count specific words, specific numbers, numbers greater than a hurdle, numbers between two values, values that are NOT equal to an amount, words that end in es, all words, all numbers, all content, all blanks, all things which aren't words ...
How To: Extract part of a table from a larger table in Excel
New to 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 Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 185th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a formula to extract part of a table from a larger table. You'll accomplish this with an array formula that uses Excel's INDIRECT, IF, ROWS, COUNTIF, INDEX, SMALL, and ROW functions. The formula will extract records that meet one con...
How To: Use IS functions in Microsoft Excel
New to 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 Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 101st installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use IS functions (ISBLANK, ISERR, ISERROR, ISLOGICAL, ISNA, ISNONTEXT, ISNUMBER, ISREF &ISTEXT).
How To: Use macro and advanced filters in Microsoft Excel
New to Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly advanced as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 185th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to to use Advanced Filter to extract records from a table with 1 criteria, then use a Macro to automate the process.
How To: Use the EXACT function in Microsoft Excel
New to Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly advanced as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 9th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use Excel's EXACT function to check to see whether two text strings are equivalent and whether or not they have the same case.
How To: Use the SUMIF & SUMPRODUCT functions in MS Excel
New to Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly advanced as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 315th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how (and when) to use the SUMIF & SUMPRODUCT functions.
How To: Convert currency with data from a web query 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 94th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use and link a currency web query to a data validation cell drop-down list for money conversion.
How To: Replace a long IF with a MIN/MAX formula in Excel
New to Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly advanced as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 100th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to replace a long IF formula with a simple MIN/MAX formula (or an even simpler MEDIAN function). See 3 amazing examples. When you have a hurdle such a Commission Hurdle or a Payroll Taxable Earning Hurdle, and you are using an IF function fo...
How To: Use VLOOKUP with multiple lookup values in Excel
New to Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly advanced as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 488th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use VLOOKUP with multiple lookup values. You'll also learn how to add an extra column with a unique identifier to data set using ampersand concatenate.
How To: Find the percentage of total from a DB set in Excel
New to Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly advanced as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 480th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to calculate a percentage of total from a database data set when the variable of interest is text (word). This is accomplished with recourse to the COUNTIF, SUM & COUNTA functions.
How To: Automatically format duplicate values in Excel 2010
New to Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly advanced as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 514th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn three methods for conditionally formatting duplicate values:
How To: Summarize data from multiple sheets in Microsoft Excel
New to Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly advanced as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 506th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to summarize data from multiple sheets. For example, you'll see how take checkbook register data from multiple banks accounts and summarize it based on account names.
How To: Sort and filter in Microsoft Excel 2007
New to Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly advanced as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 483rd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how (and when) to use both the sort and filter tools in Microsoft Excel.
How To: Show vendor names associated with a low bid in Excel
New to Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly advanced as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 518th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the INDEX, SMALL, IF, COLUMN, COLUMNS, COUNTIF and MIN functions to extract and display vendor names when multiple vendors are ties for a low bid.
How To: Make date & time calculations (sans weekends) in Excel
New to Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly advanced as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 533rd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a formula to calculate the difference between start date/time & end date/time excluding holidays and weekends. This is accomplished with recourse to Excel's NETWORKINGDAYS and MOD functions.
How To: Format dates with the WEEKDAY function in Excel
New to Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly advanced as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 534th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the OR and WEEKDAY functions to create a logical true/false formula that will automatically apply formatting to dates that are either weekends or holidays.
How To: Create dynamic sub tables in Microsoft Excel
New to Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly advanced as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 538th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create dynamic sub tables based on master sheet array as well as how to create array formulae quickly with the Drill-Through method. All this is accomplished with recourse to the COUNTIF, IF, ROWS, INDEX, SMALL, ROW functions.
How To: Create an Excel Gantt Chart by conditional formatting
New to Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly advanced as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 477th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a Gantt cell chart using conditional formatting. This is accomplished with recourse to the WORKDAY.INTL, AND, NOT & NETWORKDAYS.INT functions.
How To: Stop Excel from giving a number in scientific notation
New to Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly advanced as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 477th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to prevent Excel from displaying a 13-digit number ID in scientific notation using the number formatting tool.
How To: Extract unique records with an array formula in Excel
New to Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly advanced as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 473rd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to extract a unique list from a group of individual rows.
How To: Conditionally format at every change in value in Excel
New to Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly advanced as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 474th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to conditionally highlight every last value in a data set or each value which differs from the value preceding it.
How To: Find averages & standard deviation in Microsoft Excel
New to Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly advanced as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 243rd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to find typical values, or averages – a single value that allows you to talk about all the data points in a given spreadsheet. Specifically, you'll learn how to find the mean, median, mode and standard deviation for a set of numbers.
How To: Use the SUMIF function in Microsoft Excel 2007
New to Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly advanced as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 203rd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the SUMIF function to sum with specific criteria.
How To: Extract records that meet certain criteria in Excel
New to Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly advanced as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 186th installment in their series of Excel magic tricks, you'll see how to extract records that meet two conditions (criteria) and list them in order with no extra rows between records as well as how to create a formula to extract part of a table from a larger table based on two criteria. (All of this is accomplished through us...
How To: Open the Page Setup dialog box in Microsoft Excel 2007
To customize the over all design of a specified document, you need to adjust Page Layout settings. This is easily done by clicking the Page Layout button and customizing settings such as orientation, scaling, and margins.