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How To: Create a dynamic frequency table & chart 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 636th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a dynamic frequency table and histogram chart using defined name formulas for dynamic ranges that use the INDEX function. See other formulas that use the COUNTIF, IF and ROWS functions that help to make it fully dynamic....
How To: Convert a text formula/function to a number in Excel
Love Microsoft Excel? This clip contains a tip that just might induce you to. With this free video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 44th installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn use 4 different tricks to convert a text formula or function to a number. Also see how to convert text to numbers. Learn to love digital spreadsheets more perfectly with the tricks outlined in this free Microsoft Office how-to.
How To: Set up headers & footers across sheets 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 188th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to set up headers and footers across multiple sheets.
How To: Value a stock with predictable dividends in Microsoft 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, the 63rd installment in his "Excel Finance Class" series of free video lessons, you'll learn how to value a stock with predictable dividents in Excel.
How To: Make a calendar with Microsoft Publisher
Learn how to make calendars in Microsoft Publisher, so you can create your own custom, personalized, gifts for friends, family, or just for yourself.
How To: Create multilevel list styles in Microsoft Word 2007
Need some help figuring out how to generate multilevel list styles within MS Word 2007? This clip will teach you what you'll need to know. Whether you're new to Microsoft's popular word processor or just wish to get to know Word 2010 a little better, you're sure to find much of value in this video lesson. For more and better information, take a look.
How To: Enable Excel services on Sharepoint 2007
Check out this tutorial and learn how to use Excel Calculation Services to handle processor-intensive calculations from your Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 team site and to control access to external data.
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: Undo and redo actions in Microsoft Office Word 2010
Before you can work in Word 2010, you'll need to learn how to work with it. See how to undo and redo actions the Microsoft Word 2010 user interface with this free video software tutorial. Whether you're new to Microsoft's popular word processor or just wish to get to know Word 2010 a little better, you're sure to find much of value in this video lesson. For more and better information, and to get started undoing and redoing actions with ease in Word 2010 UI, take a look.
How To: Use advanced features of Office Communicator 2007
See the demo to learn how to take advantage of some of the advanced features of Office Communicator 2007, including rich-text formatting, transferring files, and escalating to a Live Meeting. If you use Office Communicator at your office for video conference calls or chatting, then this tutorial will explain some very useful advanced features.
How To: Make an Excel formula to say if a bond is sold at discount, premium or par
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 51st installment in his "Excel Finance Class" series of free video lessons, you'll learn how to create an if formula to indicate whether a bond is sold at discount, premium or par.
How To: Ignore hidden rows with MS Excel's AGGREGATE 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 662nd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to add or average while ignoring values in hidden rows. In addition you can ignore both Hidden Rows and Error Value.
How To: Conditionally format dates & weekends 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 137th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to apply custom number formatting as well as how to conditionally format dates and weekends using a TRUE FALSE formula with the AND and WEEKDAY functions.
How To: Create a material resource in Microsoft Project 2010
In this clip, you'll learn how to create a new material resource when using MS Project 2010. Whether you're new to Microsoft's popular project management application or are just looking to better acquaint yourself with the Project 2010 workflow, you're sure to benefit from this free video software tutorial from Lynda. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, take a look.
How To: Use the INDEX & MATCH functions in Microsoft Excel
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 45th installment in his "Highline Excel Class" series of free video Excel lessons, you'll learn how to use the INDEX & MATCH functions.
How To: Repeat a task with a VBA For...Next loop in MS Excel
Repeating a task using a For...Next loop : Excel: VBA in Depth from lynda.com Watch the entire course at http://www.lynda.com/home/DisplayCourse.aspx?lpk2=62906&utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=viral&utm_content=youtube&utm_campaign=youtube
How To: Create a new document from a template in Word 2010
Before you can work in Word 2010, you'll need to learn how to work with it. See how to generate a new document from a template in Microsoft Word 2010 with this free video software tutorial. Whether you're new to Microsoft's popular word processor or just wish to get to know Word 2010 a little better, you're sure to find much of value in this video lesson. For more and better information, and to get started using tempaltes in MS Word 2010 yourself, take a look.
How To: Use Boolean math formulas in Microsoft Office 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 651st installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn see how to replace your IF function with a shorter Boolean Math formula! TRUE = 1, FALSE = 0, TRUE*2000 = 2000 and FASLE*2000 = 0.
How To: Create a calendar appointment using drag and drop in Outlook
You can drag and drop an email onto your Calendar icon in Microsoft Outlook, which then immediately gives you the option of setting up a new calendar entry. You can even color code your various events for easy reference later!
How To: Pull text from Excel cells & separate into columns
Mastering your Excel skills? Have a busy Excel workbook or spreadsheet that needs to some organizing? In this two-part tutorial, learn how to pull text from cells & separate them into multiple columns in MS Excel. You will learn how to use the LEN(), FIND(), LEFT(), and RIGHT() functions to pull text from Microsoft Excel 2007 cells & assign them to different columns.
How To: Round to the penny or dollar in Microsoft Excel
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 9th installment in his "Excel Business Math" series of free video lessons, you'll learn about when you must use the ROUND function in Excel. Round to the penny or dollar with this free video lesson.
How To: Search graphics, tables, and charts in MS Word 2010
This is an informative video tutorial on how to search graphics, tables and charts using MS Word 2010. The author informs that the earlier MS Word editions had fast and easy search options, but the same feature built into the 2010 edition is vastly improved. One simply has to click the ‘Find’ option at the top right-hand corner and a navigation pane opens on the left-hand side. In the search box, the keyword is typed in and all the instances of that word in the document are highlighted, while...
How To: Create a column line graph in Microsoft Excel 2007
In this software video tutorial you will learn how to create a column line graph in Microsoft Excel 2007. First you type in the data in to the work sheet. Then highlight the data and click 'insert' on the menu bar. Here you select the 'column' option and go down and click on the type of column that you want. And the graph is automatically presented. Now click on 'move chart' and select a sheet where you want the graph to be moved to and click OK. To change any field in the chart in to a line ...
How To: Solve a basic percent formula word problem in Excel
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 28th installment in his "Excel Business Math" series of free video lessons, you'll learn how to solve a basic percent (rate * base) formula word problem using Excel.
How To: Create an MLA works cited page in Word
To start with you have to write the author's name, with the last name entered first followed by first name and then the period. Title of the article should be in quotation marks. Do not use italic format. Title of the actual journal must be written. After this there is a series of numbers the volume number, issue, year, pages number separated by a colon. Don’t write 'p' for pages as the number itself is a standard for it. Write the period and also the dates.
How To: Write a value to a cell using VBA in Microsoft Excel
See how to use VBA to write a value to a cell within a Microsoft Excel workbook. Whether you're new to Microsoft's popular digital spreadsheet application, new to Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) or merely new to using the two in tandem, you're sure to benefit from this free video software tutorial from the folks at Lynda. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, take a look.
How To: Create page backgrounds and borders in Word 2007
Creating different borders and backgrounds for pages within a single Word document.
How To: Extract unique lists from Excel data sets by filtering
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 660th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to extract a unique list from a data set using Advanced Filter.
How To: Insert SmartArt into Microsoft Excel 2010 spreadsheets
Learn how to add SmartArt to your Microsoft Excel 2010 workbooks. 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 using SmartArt in your own Excel projects, watch this free video guide.
How To: Create a monogram in PowerPoint
Don't spend tons of money paying a designer to make your monograms, create your own using PowerPoint! Even if you're not the best computer user, this tutorial will get you through the basics step-by-step.
How To: Export data from an Excel sheet to a Word document
A video tutorial showing you how to export data from Excel to a Word document in a couple different ways. Copying from Excel to Word doesn't always do it right. Try exporting.
How To: Create a basic PivotTable in Microsoft Excel 2010
Learn how to create a simple PivotTable within Microsoft Excel 2010 spreadsheet. 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 using PivotTables (or Pivot Tables) in your own MS Excel 2010 projects, watch this free video guide.
How To: Create a Team Site within SharePoint 2010
Whether you're new to Microsoft's popular content management system (CMS) or a seasoned MS Office professional just looking to better acquaint yourself with the SharePoint 2010 workflow, you're sure to be well served by this video tutorial. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this free video guide.
How To: Use pivot tables to view data in Access 2007
This screencast tutorial from Matthew MacDonald, author of Access 2007: The Missing Manual, shows you how to use pivot tables to analyze data in Microsoft Access 2007.
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 general printing options in MS Word 2007
In this video the instructor shows how to user printer options in Microsoft Word 2007. To do this go to the Microsoft button and click it. Form the drop down menu select the print option. Now you are presented with the three options of Print, Quick Print and Print Preview. Print is used to directly send documents to the printer by selecting the necessary settings. Quick Print is used to quickly send the documents to the printer using the default settings. Print preview is a useful way of seei...
How To: Use the SUMIF function with an array 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 694th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how the SUMIF function (and COUNTIF, etc.) cannot accept arrays. If you need to sum by year from transactional data the SUMIF and YEAR functions cannot be used together. Instead we can use the SUMPRODUCT function.
How To: Insert special characters in MS Word 2007
A video from Helpvids.com that shows how to insert special characters in MS Word 2007. A seldom used function in MS Word is the Insert Symbol function. Symbols like the copyright, infinity, registered trademark, Yen, Pound, Euro etc can be of use in some documents. Word provides an easy way to insert these and many other such symbols into your documents without much hassle (For example, using the Character Map utility provided with Windows).
How To: Plot data with Microsoft Excel's REPT & COUNTIF tools
If you use Microsoft Excel on a regular basis, odds are you work with numbers. Put those numbers to work. Statistical analysis allows you to find patterns, trends and probabilities within your data. In this MS Excel tutorial from everyone's favorite Excel guru, YouTube's ExcelsFun, the 27th installment in his "Excel Statistics" series of free video lessons, you'll learn how to create a quantitative data dot plot chart using the REPT and COUNTIF functions.
How To: Use SmartArt graphics in MS Word 2007
In this video we learn how to use Smart Art graphics including creation of Hierarchal charts, flow charts, modify, adding gradients, style, and colors, in Word 2007. The first step is to click on the Smart Art icon in Microsoft Word 2007. Next, you can scroll through the Smart Art object choices. In this example we first want to click on the Text Cycle icon. Once we do that click on OK and the rough drawing will be placed on your document. After that click on design and you can format the gra...