Using PowerPivot for Excel 2010 to create asymmetric pivot tables. An asymmetric pivot table is where you want to report Budget for next year, but Actuals for this year.

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Erik asks how do deal with data where each record takes up three rows. Episode 1176 shows you how.

A workbook that was working perfectly in Excel 2003 starts failing in Excel 2007. For no apparent reason, the links will no longer update. Episode 1174 shows why and how to fix this problem forever.

Paula asks how to take a range and turn it on its side. Episode 1173 shows you how.

Today's dueling Excel podcast shows how to do a picture lookup in Excel.

Another look at Formula Speed in Excel: I have to do a lookup to find both a city and a day. Rather than using a concatenated lookup, two alternative formulas that perfom faster.

Szilvia noted a strange anomoly in Excel 2007 pivot tables. Microsoft started appearing at the top of every customer list! Episode 1170 takes a look at this mystery and the solution.

Ahmed asks how to do a lookup that only looks at the text portion of the lookup value. Mike and Bill compare methods in this Dueling Excel Episode 1169.

Khader asks how to concatenate three cells so that they appear on three lines in a new cell. Episode 1168 shows you how.

Building on Teo's question from yesterday, Bill expands the technique to generate an array of 50 sequential numbers instead of typing that whole range out. Episode 1167 shows you how.

Teo asks how to sum up the three largest values in a range. Episode 1166 shows you how.

In today's dueling podcast, we need to look up a value in one of three different tables depending on the product selected. Mike and Bill show many ways to solve the problem in Episode 1165.

Brent asked me how I managed to draw a curved arrow on a worksheet. Episode 1164 takes a look at how to customize the drawing tools to draw in curved arrows.

Shaun has a large worksheet with 12 monthly reports on it. On a summary worksheet, he would like to show one particular month based on a dropdown. Episode 1163 discusses Paste Special Column Widths, Array Formulas, Match, and OFFSET.

A simple MATCH formula is not working. In episode 1162, we wander through the Validation dialog, the Name Manager dialog, all trying to figure out why the MATCH formula is returning #N/A.

Today's dueling podcast question is how to return the sum of all columns from a VLOOKUP. Mike and Bill show you various methods in episode 1161.

Riham asks if there is any way to arrange the sheet tabs in two rows. While there is not, episode 1160 shows various ways of dealing with the issue.

Using PowerPivot for Excel 2010 to mashup data on two different worksheets.

David asks how to use Text to Columns to grab the right-most two characters from a column. Episode 1158 shows you how.

Announcing new software for Excel: Easy-XL adds 50 new data analysis features to Excel. Episode 1157 shows some of the cool features of Easy-XL.

Take geographic data from Excel and plot it as a route in MapPoint. Episode 1154 shows you how.