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,...
Use Excel’s Data Validation Feature to Return Items from a List
Dawn has a list of people and their email addresses in her spreadsheet. She wants to select a name from a list and then...
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...
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...
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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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