In Episode 1150, I wanted to add data bars to a series of words. Episode 1150 shows you how.

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Someone put a bunch of mathematical calculations in column A as text and we want to evaluate those formulas. Mike and Bill provide dueling ways to solve this problem in Episode 1149.

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Ram asks how to split a word into individual letters, and then count how many times each letter appears. Episode 1148 shows you how.

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Wang asks how to change part of one data label to be red. Unfortunately, the label is then broken. A macro should solve this, but it does not. Episode 1147 discusses this problem.

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Mark asks how to fill blanks in with the data from above. Now...if you've watched this podcast, you've seen the trick for this, but Mark's data has something preventing Go To Special Blanks from working! So - another way to go. Episode 1146 shows you how.

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Diane from Michigan wants to split a column of names into two columns. Episode 1145 shows two approaches and the problems with each.

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Martin from Sweden sends in a question about doing a range VLOOKUP where the lookup table is not sorted. Mike and Bill duel it out in today's Episode 1144.

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Michael from Kansas City asks how to build a floating quartile chart. Episode 1143 shows you how.

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You can specify up to eight colors in the custom number format box. But wait...you can actually do all 56 colors from the Excel 2003 color palette! Episode 1142 shows you how.

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Rob from Cambridge needs to divide nine cells by nine other cells and sum them up. In Episode 1141, we look at an array formula to solve this problem.

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A cool way to streamline a VBA loop using SpecialCells. Episode 1140 shows you how.

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A viewer from Portugal sends in a question about finding which row contains the match. Episode 1139 shows you a few ways to go!

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Rod from Cincinati asks how to solve the problem of trailing spaces in the lookup table. I had never tried it before, but you can apply a TRIM to the entire lookup table. Episode 1138 shows you how.

This blog is the video podcast companion to the book, Learn Excel 97-2007 from MrExcel. Download a new two minute video every workday to learn one of the 377 tips from the book!

In Episode 1137, a cool way to remove all hyperlinks from a spreadsheet.

This blog is the video podcast companion to the book, Learn Excel 97-2007 from MrExcel. Download a new two minute video every workday to learn one of the 377 tips from the book!

Mary from Louisiana passes along a cool tip for applying AutoFilter dropdowns to a subset of your records. Episode 1136 shows you how.

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Nick asks how to do a pretty lengthy bonus calculation. It might be too complex for the Excel 2003 nested IF limit, so I decided to use the range version of VLOOKUP. But...as a twist, I embed the table right in the formula. Episode 1135 shows you how.

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Today's Dueling Excel Podcast is a question sent in by Hassan. Hassan wants to enter a name and a through-month and then add up that person's sales from January through the selected month. Mike and Bill show various methods in Episode 1134.

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Patricia called the other day with a problem which will be familiar to everyone who works in a public school district. The state pays the school for every student who is enrolled on the magic date of October 1. Given a start date and end date, how can you tell if the date is in that range? Episode 1133 shows you how.

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The Excel fill handle is really cool with quarters. But wait....it can not do quarters and years. But wait...it can do them but in a hideous format. Episode 1132 asks  - "Does anyone have a better way?"


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Roger from Columbus Indiana passes along a cool trick for formatting all of the text in a chart at once. Episode 1131 shows you how.

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Greg wants to set up dynamic validation, but he has a wrinkle....Once someone chooses from the first data set, he needs to append the word My before that answer to get to the name of the second data set. Episode 1130 shows you how.

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A dueling podcast...how to find the first week of the month. Mike and Bill show you various ways in Episode 1129.

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The last in my series of podcasts about GetPivotData. Today, we see how to use GetPivotData to overcome all the bad stuff in a pivot table. Episode 1128 shows you how.

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Rather than turn off the evil GetPivotData like we did yesterday, how about trying to understand what GetPivotData actually does? Episode 1127 shows you how.


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99% of the people in my seminars hate GetPivotData. Most people outside of Microsoft hate GetPivotData. Today, in Episode 1126, as we've done before, we will take a look at how to turn off GetPivotData.

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Don't use HLOOKUP...just turn the table back to a vertical table using the two methods shown in Episode 1125.

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Mike & Bill take a look at various ways to do a 2-way lookup in this dueling Excel Episode 1124.

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VLOOKUP week continues.... Today, you have to lookup an account number and return the results from four columns in the lookup table. Episode 1123 shows you four possible solutions.

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