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Here's how to use both VBA and iterative calculations to update your workbook in response to DDE updates. Also includes ideas from other Excel MVPs.

Track Dynamic Data with VBA or with Iterative Calculations

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"My A1 cell changes value every minute because it imports data from a DDE server. To keep historical data, I would like to list...
Most Excel gurus can do simple things in worksheets more quickly than early-stage Excel users can. Here are some time-saving ways to get started.

Save Time with Excel Range Selections

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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...
The 'List' Feature of the Data Validation command offers a quick and easy way to set up a dropdown list box that you can use for choosing items in a cell.

How to Set Up a Data-Validation List Box in Excel

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Often, we need to set up a list box in Excel, a sorted list that allows us to choose an item from an Excel...
Excel includes many outstanding features that you probably don't know even exist. Here's how to find those features and to use the ones you need.

How to Find and Use Excel’s Best Hidden Features

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Excel has many outstanding hidden features. Here are a few that I use frequently… In Excel 2013 and above, when you close Excel's last...

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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...

How to Smooth Data by Using the TREND Function

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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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