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How To: Create a combination chart in Excel 2007
This screencast from Matthew MacDonald, author of Excel 2007: The Missing Manual, guides you through creating and modifying a combination chart in Excel 2007.
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: Compare text with text & numbers with 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 634th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to build logical formulas for counting with criteria or conditional formatting so that the comparison is between text and text or numbers and numbers. Text-to-number comparisons (e.g., 2003 to "2003") do not yield matches. Learn h...
How To: Average with the MONTH function in Microsoft Excel
Love Microsoft Excel? This clip contains a tip that just might induce you to. With this free video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 90th installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll see a complicated average calculation with multiple criteria using the MONTH function on a date field. Learn to love digital spreadsheets more perfectly with the tricks outlined in this free Microsoft Office how-to.
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: Create a combo box in Microsoft Office Access 2007
The Microsoft Office Access 2007 relational database manager enables information workers to quickly track and report information with ease thanks to its interactive design capabilities that do not require deep database knowledge. In this Microsoft Access video tutorial, you'll learn about creating an alphabetically sorted combo box search. For detailed instructions, and to get started using combo boxes yourself, watch this MS Access how-to.
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: Apply accounting & percentage formatting in Excel
This is the fifth video in the Statistics in Excel. He gives the website address where content can be downloaded. He speaks about the different types of formatting like stylistic and number formatting. He talks about the different formats like accounting and percentage, and how to use both of them. Accounting format is nice because it lines up the decimals nicely. He shows how to apply the accounting format. The percentage format displays the value in as a percentage. He shows you how to appl...
How To: Count values between a lower & upper bound 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 175th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the SUMPRODUCT function and an array of TRUE & FALSE to count values between an upper and lower bound.
How To: Add drawings and free-form shapes in MS Word 2007
In this Microsoft Word tutorial the instructor shows how to add a drawing or a free form shape to a document. Using the canvas in the Microsoft Word 2007 can be very helpful in adding graphical content to your document. Adding shapes and special effects like shadows, 3D will give a rich look to the document. To do this open a document in Word 2007. In the tool bar go to the Insert tab and in that select the Shape button. Now you are presented with plenty of predefined auto shapes. First at th...
How To: Multiply & sum arrays with Excel's SUMPRODUCT
Whether you're interested in learning Microsoft Excel from the bottom up or just looking to pick up a few tips and tricks, you've come to the right place. In this tutorial from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, ExcelIsFun, the 37th installment in his "Highline Excel Class" series of free video Excel lessons, you'll learn how to work with MS Excel's SUMPRODUCT function.
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: Calculate future & present value for multiple cash flows in Excel
As you might guess, one of the domains in which Microsoft Excel really excels is finance math. Brush up on the stuff for your next or current job with this how-to. In this tutorial from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, YouTube's ExcelIsFun, part of his "Excel Finance Class" series of free video lessons, you'll learn how to calculate the future and present values for multiple cash flows in Excel.
How To: Insert or delete footnotes & endnotes in MS Word 2007
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to insert or delete footnotes or end-notes in Microsoft Word 2007. A footnote is a little reference which will place a small number in subscript and link it to a comment. A end-note is similar except it links the comment to the end of the document, rather than the end of the page. Begin by highlighting the text. Then click on the Reference tab and select Insert Footnote/End-note. Then just add a comment to the subscript. This video will benefit those ...
How To: Use Microsoft Office OneNote 2007
Do you ever wish you had a way to jot down an idea, and then illustrate it with a page from a document, a photo and a sound clip, all without opening multiple applications? Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 note-taking program is that advanced notepad, and is better than ever with new additions to the interface that make it even easier to organize yourself. For more on using MS Office OneNote, watch this video tutorial.
How To: Translate documents in Microsoft Office: Mac 2008
If you've ever had to work with documents written in other languages, you know how painstakingly difficult it can be if you're not a fluent speaker of the language. But now, with the help of Office 2008 for Mac, translating those documents is easy. You can know easily translate a PowerPoint presentation in almost any language to almost any language! And you can also translate Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and even emails in Entourage! This translator is available right in the reference ...
How To: Freeze panes in Microsoft Excel 2010
Learn how to freeze panes when working within Microsoft Excel 2010. Whether you're new to Microsoft's popular digital spreadsheet application or a seasoned business professional just looking to better acquaint yourself with the Excel 2010 workflow, you're sure to be well served by this video tutorial. For more information, and to get started freezing panes in your own Excel 2010 projects, watch this free video guide.
How To: Use an advanced filter to extract table 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 244th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use advanced filtering to extract records from a database (table or list) based on 1 criterion (criteria) and place reesults on a new sheet worksheet.
How To: Use AGGREGATE instead of SUBTOTAL in MS Excel 2010
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 664th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how about how the new Excel 2010 AGGREGATE function that can calculate these 19 different functions depending on what number you put into the 1st argument of the AGGREGATE function. This is an improvement over the SUBTOTAL function wh...
How To: Return a sorted list based on row values in MS Excel
return a descending sorted list of country names based on the values in a row using an array formula that itself makes use of Excel's INDEX, MATCH, RANK, COLUMN and COLUMNS functions.
How To: Count days excluding Sundays 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 189th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to count all the days except for Sunday using an array formula for a given date range with a specified start and end date.
How To: Filter and extract records with multiple criteria in Microsoft Excel 2010
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 703rd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to filter with 6 criteria then extract records to a new location.
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 AGGREGATE function in Microsoft Excel 2010
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 669th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the AGGREGATE function in Microsoft Excel 2010 and later. This new function is better than SUBTOTAL function because 1) the options argument set to 18 will calculate Percentile and 2) AGGREGATE can handle arrays. See how th...
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: Use the number e in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet
Love Microsoft Excel? This clip contains a tip that just might induce you to. With this free video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 99th installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn how to create and use the mathematical constant e in Excel. Also learn about the EXP function.
How To: Use the Backstage view in Microsoft Access 2010
Learn how to use the Backstage view option when working in Microsoft Access 2010. Whether you're new to Microsoft's popular database management application or a seasoned MS Office professional just looking to better acquaint yourself with the Access 2010 workflow, you're sure to be well served by this video tutorial. For more information, and to get started using the Backstage view in your own Access projects, watch this free video guide.
How To: Make an Excel scatter chart to show the relationship between bond rate & price
As you might guess, one of the domains in which Microsoft Excel really excels is finance math. Brush up on the stuff for your next or current job with this how-to. In this tutorial from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, YouTube's ExcelIsFun, the 50th installment in his "Excel Finance Class" series of free video lessons, you'll learn how to demonstrate the inverse relationship between bond rate and price with a scater chart.
How To: Filter a pie 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 294th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to filter a pie chart.
How To: Use borders in MS Word 2007
To use borders in Microsoft Word 2007, you begin by clicking on the Page Layout tab. Next, click on Page Borders. This will open a window. Page borders will border the entire page. You are able to custom choose the width of the lines, the style of the border, or the color of the border. The color drop down menu will allow you to choose automatic colors or custom colors. You can also choose to remove one or more of the sides. You can decide which pages to add borders to, as well. There are als...
How To: Generate random numbers (integers) in Excel
1.Here 10-50 and 300-400 numbers are taken for example to generate the random numbers within the limit in Excel. We using the command of "randbetween" for generate the random numbers and we won't get the decimal or fraction values.2.Now type "=randbetween(10,50)" which means to generate the random value between the bottom value of 10 and top value of 50 and click enter now we will get 11 as random generated number.3.Do the same thing for 300-400 as "=randbetween(300-400)".You will the 303 wil...
How To: Create drop down menus in Excel
In this software video tutorial you will learn how to create drop down menus in Excel using Data Validation. This example will show you how to display a list of parts in a drop down menu. Create the list of parts somewhere in your worksheet. Then in the cell underneath the one where you want to display the parts, go to the data validation window and enter the data. For this select the cell and then press 'Alt + D + L' to bring up the data validation box. Here you click on 'settings' and selec...
How To: Create random basic math problems in Microsoft Excel
Love Microsoft Excel? This clip contains a tip that just might induce you to. With this free video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 71st installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn how to create random math problems for your kids with the CHOOSE, RANDBETWEEN, DOLLAR and TEXT functions. Learn to love digital spreadsheets more perfectly with the tricks outlined in this free Microsoft Office how-to.
How To: Create and use templates in Microsoft Publisher 2010
In this video tutorial, we learn how to create and use publication templates when working in Microsoft Office Publisher 2010. Whether you're new to Microsoft's popular desktop publishing application or are a seasoned pro merely looking to brush up on Publisher 2010, you're sure to be well served by this clip. For more information, and to get started employing the lessons imparted by this free video software tutorial in your own Publisher projects, take a look.
How To: Find the average time between orders in an Excel sheet
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 371st installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to calculate the average time between customer orders by adding a new column to a data set with an IF function formula.
How To: Use SUMIFS or SUMPRODUCT to get invoice info 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 497th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll see a formula that uses SUMIFS or SUMPRODUCT functions that will take invoice information for inventory quantity sold and update inventory records to show correct amount on hand (in stock) for each store or branch of the company.
How To: Calculate invoice due dates with EOMONTH 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 657th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn see howto calculate Invoice Due Dates & Financial Statement Dates using the EOMONTH function including end of the month and beginning and ending dates for each quarter.
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: Add current stock prices to an Excel table
As you might guess, one of the domains in which Microsoft Excel really excels is business math. Brush up on the stuff for your next or current job with this how-to. In this tutorial from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, YouTube's ExcelIsFun, the 33rd installment in his "Excel Business Math" series of free video lessons, you'll learn how to add current stock prices to a stock analysis table in Excel using a web query.
How To: Calculate variable commission totals in MS Exce
Love Microsoft Excel? This clip contains a tip that just might induce you to. With this free video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 46th installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn how to use the DOLLAR, VLOOKUP, INDEX and MATCH functions and a previous bracket commission formula trick to calculate total commissions when you have variable commissions paid out. Learn to love digital spreadsheets more perfectly with the tricks outlined in t...