How to Select Values from a Validation List in Excel
Excel provides two ways to select a value from a list of values. I often use this feature in interactive Excel reports to select dates,...
How to Use Absolute and Relative Cell References in Excel Formulas
A reader sent me this question:
Could you send me more details about using $'s like the following: =AVERAGE($6:$6) averages all data in ROW 6....
Track Dynamic Data with VBA or with Iterative Calculations
"My A1 cell changes value every minute because it imports data from a DDE server. To keep historical data, I would like to list...
Advanced SUMIFS Calculations with Criteria Lists
In Part 1 of this series, you learned how to use criteria lists for marketing data. In Part 2, we looked at financial data.
And now, in Part...
Save Time with Excel Range Selections
One of the big differences between early-stage Excel users and gurus is that gurus can do simple things in Excel much more quickly than...
How to Delete Blank or Unneeded Rows, Method 2
Data copied from a web site or imported from a variety of sources often include irrelevant rows of data.
For example, the only way to...
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...
How to Set Up a Data-Validation List Box in Excel
Often, we need to set up a list box in Excel, a sorted list that allows us to choose an item from an Excel...
How to Change Text to Columns When You Copy and Paste in Excel
Today I needed to copy a bunch of numeric tables from a pdf file into Excel.
When I pasted the first table, all the data...
How to Create Dynamic Chart Legends in Excel
When I saw a chart designed like the ones below in the Wall Street Journal, I knew I had to create one just like...
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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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