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Using the Hidden Power of Excel’s FILTER Function
When you take the time to explore a new worksheet function, it's amazing what you can discover!
And I won't tell you about the really...
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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...
Learn How to Use Excel to Track the US Recovery from the Covid Recession
The Covid recession is the worst recession the world has experienced since the Great Depression. And the Recovery Tracker workbook and Excel training can...
Track Key Economic Indicators Every Weekday with this Excel Dashboard
You can update this Excel dashboard report every weekday—with one command—if you have Excel 2016 or above.
This report of current economic data introduces you...
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Add Low-Overwhelm Context to Your Line Charts
The data you display in charts often takes on new meaning when you display it in the context of other data.
One way to add...
Business & Economics
How to Reproduce Your Excel Work Across Many Categories, Part 3...
Part 1 of this series about analytical spawning with Excel described how Excel users often need to spawn one model or report across many related...
Formulas & Functions
Use MS Query with Text Files for Dynamic Excel Reporting
(Charley's Note: This article is very out of date. I'll update it as quickly as I can.)
In the article, Use MS Query to Treat...
Excel Methods
How to Use SUMIFS with Criteria Lists, Summarizing Sales
With one exception, SUMIFS is a very powerful function. And it's very fast.
To understand the one exception, suppose you have a table of sales...
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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...
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...
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...







































