Fri, 27 November 2009
Lotfy from Egypt asks how to create a weekly report from daily
transactional data. Mike and Bill show you several different methods in
Episode 1153.
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Wed, 25 November 2009
Harold from Tulsa asked how to write a macro to simulate double-clicking the fill handle. Episode 1152 shows you how.
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Tue, 24 November 2009
How can you add a watermark behind your spreadsheet? It is not obvious, but Episode 1151 shows you a couple of methods.
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Mon, 23 November 2009
In Episode 1150, I wanted to add data bars to a series of words. Episode 1150 shows you how.
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Fri, 20 November 2009
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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Thu, 19 November 2009
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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Wed, 18 November 2009
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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Tue, 17 November 2009
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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Mon, 16 November 2009
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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Fri, 13 November 2009
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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Thu, 12 November 2009
Michael from Kansas City asks how to build a floating quartile chart. Episode 1143 shows you how.
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Wed, 11 November 2009
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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Tue, 10 November 2009
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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Mon, 9 November 2009
A cool way to streamline a VBA loop using SpecialCells. Episode 1140 shows you how.
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Fri, 6 November 2009
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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