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How Fast Is Too Fast?
(Originally published in Inc Magazine.)
What typically tops the list of worries of the chief executive officers of fast growing companies? Financing that growth, according...
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Simple Transformations Can Reveal Hidden Patterns in Your Data
Excel users have at least two significant advantages over business professionals who rely on other analytical and reporting tools.
First advantage: We Excel users can...
Inflation Tracker Excel Dashboard with Consumer Prices
U.S. President John F. Kennedy once said of a growing economy, "A rising tide lifts all boats."
However, a rising inflationary tide does not lift...
How to Report Top and Bottom Results Using Dynamic Arrays in Excel
In How to Use Excel’s LET Function, I showed several examples of a powerful function that Microsoft added to Excel 365 in the summer...
How to Report GL Account Groups in Excel
Believe it or not, this income statement is quite sophisticated. It's not nearly as simple-minded as it looks.
In fact, this income statement illustrates a...
How to Use Array Formulas to Report Groups of Accounts
Often, in accounting, marketing, and other departments, we'd like to report and analyze groups of items rather than one item at a time.
In Part...
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How Fast Is Too Fast?
(Originally published in Inc Magazine.)
What typically tops the list of worries of the chief executive officers of fast growing companies? Financing that growth, according...
Business & Economics
Add Class to Your Reports with Excel Drawing Objects
In my (out of print) book,Dashboard Reporting With Excel, I recommended that you "steal" ideas for Excel reports from business magazines. I recently had another...
Formulas & Functions
How to Add Advanced Filter Capabilities to Excel Tables
One useful feature of Excel Tables is the ability to filter any number of columns. The filter control for each column allows us to...
Excel Methods
How to Use SUMPRODUCT to Find the Last Item in an...
Suppose you have a Sequential List of items, as in the second table in the figure below. And suppose you want to show the...
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How to Delete Blank or Unneeded Rows, Method 1
When you bring data from another source into an Excel worksheet, the data often includes rows that you’ll want to delete. Often, you’ll want...
Why INDEX-MATCH Is Far Better Than VLOOKUP or HLOOKUP in Excel
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Excel’s VLOOKUP function is more popular than the INDEX-MATCH function combination, probably because when Excel users need to look up data then a "lookup" function...
An Introduction to Excel’s Normal Distribution Functions
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When a visitor asked me how to generate a random number from a Normal distribution she set me to thinking about doing statistics...








































