How to Work with Dates Before 1900 in Excel
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If you work with dates prior to the year 1900, Excel's standard date-handling system will be no help. However, there are several...
Fun with XY (Scatter) Charts in Excel
Because I’d been working hard on a project for many months, I once decided to take a break and play around with XY charts…which...
Five Really Useful Excel Keyboard Shortcuts
Most Excel users use some of Excel's shortcuts frequently, like F9, Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V.
However, Excel offers other shortcuts that are nearly as useful....
Interactive Dashboard Magic with Excel Slicers
The figure below illustrates an Excel magic trick I created for an Excel Dashboard, using in Excel 2016.
The key trick is the method I...
How to Use Excel Slicers to Control Settings in Your Reports and Analyses
The figure below is using Slicers to control a setting in a workbook, a setting that tells Excel's Camera tool which of three images...
Conditional Formatting with Formulas
Excel offers two types of conditional formatting. Although both types are very useful, one of them is more widely used than the other…probably because...
Bad Chart! Bad, Bad Chart!
(Download my improved Excel version of the bad charts show below.)
The Wall Street Journal usually publishes excellent charts. And Excel users usually can duplicate those professional-quality...
How to Create and Use Dynamic Range Names in Excel
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We Excel users often refer to ranges that need to move or expand in future versions of our reports. For example:
...
Introducing the Power of Year-Over-Year Performance Charts in Excel
The purpose of management reports should be to help readers find and track patterns of performance…quickly and easily.
That’s the attraction of charts, of course....
Three Simple Tricks to Improve Analytical Charting in Excel
For years, my Excel charts of trends used a simple idea: To gain insights about periodic data, just chart it.
What else was there to...
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Getting Radical with Excel
It's time to think about Excel in a radical new way—when we use it to work with business or economic data.
It's time, in fact,...
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...
How to Smooth Data by Using the TREND Function
Years ago, I read that Prof. William S. Cleveland had suggested that data could be smoothed by calculating a centered trendline through adjacent data—a...
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