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How To: Cross-check two lists for discrepancies in MS Excel

New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 528th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to check two data sets (lists & tables) to see if there are discrepancies using the MATCH and VLOOKUP functions.

How To: Sort data horizontally by formula in Microsoft Excel

New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 471st installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to sort horizontally with 3 different formulas that use the LARGE, SMALL, COLUMNS, IFERROR and IF functions.

How To: Sum every nth value in Excel with SUMPRODUCT

New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 466th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to SUM every nth value using SUMPRODUCT, MOD and ROW functions.

How To: Format every nth value in Excel with MOD & ROW

New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 467th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to apply conditional formatting every nth value using the SUMPRODUCT, MOD and ROW functions.

How To: Randomly generate 1s, 0s & blanks with Excel's CHOOSE

New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 392nd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to randomly generate 1, 0 and blank values with the CHOOSE, RAND, RANDBETWEEN and INT functions.

How To: Generate random letters without RANDBETWEEN in Excel

New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 385th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to generate random letters without RANDBETWEEN function using the formula =CHAR(65+INT(RAND()*26)).

How To: Conditionally format odd & even numbers in Excel

New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 370th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to apply conditional formatting to even and odd numbers using a TRUE/FALSE formula with the MOD function.

How To: Insert text into a test string with Excel's REPLACE

New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 332nd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to insert text into a test string with the REPLACE function as well as how to insert a part of a product ID into a longer product ID.

How To: Do a reverse-order VLOOKUP with Excel's INDEX & MATCH

New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 319th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to run a VLOOKUP in reverse order using the INDEX & MATCH functions and custom number formatting.

How To: Match text substrings with an array formula in Excel

New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 321st installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to match text substrings with an array formula that uses the AND, ISNUMBER and SEARCH functions.

How To: Run a partial text lookup in Microsoft Excel

New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 323rd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to run a partial text lookup query using a VLOOKUP function with wild card criteria.

How To: Add a series of text string numbers in Microsoft Excel

New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 277th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the SUBSTITUTE and Morefunc EVAL functions to take a text string series of numbers and add them.

How To: Extract a person's middle name from a cell in Excel

New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 191st installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to how to extract part of a text string using a formula with the functions MID, LEFT and FIND.

How To: Repeat each successive date in an Excel date column

New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 579th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the MOD function and date math to create a column of dates where each successive date is repeated twice.

How To: Grade test responses with formulas in Microsoft Excel

New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 578th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a formula to grade student answers where more than one possibility exists using the IF and OR functions.

How To: Count values between a lower & upper bound in MS Excel

New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 175th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the SUMPRODUCT function and an array of TRUE & FALSE to count values between an upper and lower bound.

How To: Use the MEDIAN IF function in Microsoft Excel

New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 145th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a formula that will calculate the median when you have more than 1 criterion.

How To: Increment numbers in an Microsoft Excel formula

New to Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 336th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the ROWS, COLUMNS, MOD, ROUND, and WEEKDAY functions to increment numbers in Excel formulas.

How To: Create a dynamic equation system in Microsoft Excel

New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 263rd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a completely dynamic math equation system (function of x) with formulas, data points, charts and chart labels.

How To: Graph quadratic functions

This video walks you through the steps of graphing quadratic funtions. This excellent video shows you a clean blackboard, with the instructors voice showing exactly what to do. Don't fret, any question you may have, will be answered. Watching this video will make you feel like your back in the classroom but rather comfortably from your home.

How To: Explore prosthetic options for the gym as an amputee

A below elbow arm amputee demonstrates the device he uses in the gym. He shows you how to use a prosthetic for working out at the gym when you've suffer a limb amputation. This video is very helpful in describing utilities available for enabling individuals with amputations to workout or get around and function in a gymnasium setting. This is a video that addresses adaptive equipment for handicapped or disabled people.

How To: Install towel hooks when remodeling your bathroom

Towel Hooks add function and a casual elegance to any style bathroom. AsktheDecorator.com host Meghan Carter demonstrates how to position all towel hooks and complete a towel hooks installation job. Why settle for messy towel bars when towel hooks keep a bathroom neat and tidy, while being stylish? Watch this how to video and learn how to install towel hooks when remodeling your bathroom.