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How To: Retouch photos to remove acne in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Your photos should show how you as you normally look and not, notably, as you looked that particular day when you had that huge pimple. Learn how to remove pimples and other blemishes when working in Adobe Photoshop CS4. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular graphic editing program or a seasoned design professional looking to better acquaint yourself with the new features and functions of this particular iteration of the application, you're sure to benefit from this free software tutorial. Fo...

How To: Sum year over year sales using MS Excel's 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 611th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create an array formula to summarize year over year sales using the SUMPRODUCT and YEAR functions. Also see how to calculate a formula for percentage change.

How To: Look up a picture 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 and Mr. Excel, the 42nd installment in their joint series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to look up a picture in Excel. See a VBA solution and a formula Solution using the INDIRECT function and named ranges.

How To: Use VBA code for conditional formatting 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 and Mr. Excel, the 22nd installment in their joint series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use VBA code for conditional formatting as well as how to do it using the OFFSET, MOD and ROWS functions.

How To: Do reverse lookups with VBA code 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 and Mr. Excel, the 7th installment in their joint series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to complete a reverse lookup (find value inside table and then retrieve column and row header). Mr. Excel uses Excel VBA code (macro) and ExcelIsFun uses a formula with the INDEX, IF, SMALL, MATCH, TEXT, CHAR and...

How To: Create horizontal subtotals for a data set 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 and Mr. Excel, the 5th installment in their joint series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create horizontal subtotals for a data set using the IF, SUM and SUMIF functions. Also see conditional formatting for non-contiguous cell ranges using a TRUE/FALSE logical formula with the NOT symbols.

How To: Fix other people's Microsoft Excel spreadsheets

Whether you're interested in learning Microsoft Excel from the bottom up or just looking to pick up a few tips and tricks, you're in the right place. In this tutorial from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, ExcelIsFun, the 26th installment in his "Highline Excel Class" series of free video Excel lessons, you'll learn how to use spreadsheet construction guidelines to fix common problems:

How To: Create charts and set up pages for analysis in Excel

Whether you're interested in learning Microsoft Excel from the bottom up or just looking to pick up a few tips and tricks, you're in the right place. In this tutorial from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, ExcelIsFun, the 5th installment in his "Highline Excel Class" series of free video Excel lessons, you'll learn how to create seven types of charts — X-Y scatter diagrams, pie charts, column charts, bar charts, stacked bar charts, line charts, and column and line chart combined. ...

How To: Extract email extensions with filters 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 338th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the REPLACE and FIND functions in a new column to extract e-mail extensions, and then use Filter or Advanced Filter to Extract records according to e-mail extension.

How To: Use relative & absolute cell references in MS Excel

As you might guess, one of the domains in which Microsoft Excel really excels is business math. Brush up on the stuff for your next or current job with this how-to. In this tutorial from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, YouTube's ExcelIsFun, the 6th installment in his "Excel Business Math" series of free video lessons, you'll learn about the importance of cell References in Excel formulas and functions. Learn about a relative and absolute cell references in Excel formulas with th...

How To: Round to the penny or dollar in Microsoft Excel

As you might guess, one of the domains in which Microsoft Excel really excels is business math. Brush up on the stuff for your next or current job with this how-to. In this tutorial from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, YouTube's ExcelIsFun, the 9th installment in his "Excel Business Math" series of free video lessons, you'll learn about when you must use the ROUND function in Excel. Round to the penny or dollar with this free video lesson.

How To: Find confidence intervals without the sigma in Excel

If you use Microsoft Excel on a regular basis, odds are you work with numbers. Put those numbers to work. Statistical analysis allows you to find patterns, trends and probabilities within your data. In this MS Excel tutorial from everyone's favorite Excel guru, YouTube's ExcelsFun, the 82nd installment in his "Excel Statistics" series of free video lessons, you'll learn how to construct confidence intervals when the sigma value (the population's standard deviation) in NOT Known using the TINV...

How To: Extract records with an advanced filter in Excel

Love Microsoft Excel? This clip contains a tip that just might induce you to. With this free video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 95th installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn how to use the OR, AND, NOT, & COUNTIF functions and Excel's advanced filter tool to extract records from a table of data. Learn to love digital spreadsheets more perfectly with the tricks outlined in this free Microsoft Office how-to.

How To: Retrieve data from many tables on many sheets in Excel

Love Microsoft Excel? This clip contains a tip that just might induce you to. With this free video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 77th installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn how to do a complicated payroll formula when tax data must be retrieved from multiple tables. See how to use the INDEX, INDIRECT AND MATCH functions in one big formula to retrieve tax data from multiple tables on multiple sheets. Learn to love digital spreadshe...

How To: Clean up a bad data set for a pivot table in MS Excel

Love Microsoft Excel? This clip contains a tip that just might induce you to. With this free video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 70th installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn how to clean up a bad data set with the TRIM function before building a pivot table (PivotTable) to calculate an average. Learn to love digital spreadsheets more perfectly with the tricks outlined in this free Microsoft Office how-to.

How To: Calculate variable commission totals in MS Exce

Love Microsoft Excel? This clip contains a tip that just might induce you to. With this free video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 46th installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn how to use the DOLLAR, VLOOKUP, INDEX and MATCH functions and a previous bracket commission formula trick to calculate total commissions when you have variable commissions paid out. Learn to love digital spreadsheets more perfectly with the tricks outlined in t...

How To: Add fonts to GIMP on Linux Ubuntu

Linux is a fully functioning free operating system that you can download online. Just because you are using Linux Ubuntu doesn't mean your projects have to suffer or look less professional that those made on traditional operating systems like Windows or Mac OS X. In this tutorial, learn how to download and add fonts to the GIMP photo program on a Linux Ubuntu system.

How To: Validate data & look up values 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 5th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to name a cell range, use data validation to add a drop-down list, and how to use the VLOOKUP function to look up values.

How To: Return the address of the 1st non-blank 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 363rd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create an array formula using the ADDRESS, MIN, IF, COLUMN & ROW functions that will return the address of the first non-blank cell in your Excel spreadsheet.

How To: Return a row's first non-blank cell 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 364th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create an array formula using the INDEX, MATCH & NOT functions that will return cell content from the first non-blank cell in a row.

How To: Use partial text matching 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 309th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to check to see if an item in first list is second another list, even if there is text before or after the item using the LOOKUP, SEARCH and ISNUMBER functions.

How To: Return every tenth value in an Excel spreadsheet

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 278th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the INDEX and ROWS functions to write a formula that will return each 10th value and place them all in a column.

How To: Create a series AA, AB ... ZZ 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 279th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how use the ADDRESS, LEFT, ROW, ROWS, and COLUMN functions to create the series AA, AB, ZZ with a formula.

How To: Count dates within a given month 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 220th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a formula with the SUMPRODUCT and EOMONTH functions that count the dates in each month for a given range of dates.

How To: Create a dynamic break-even chart 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 576th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to add a point and a dynamic label to a break-even chart that marks the breakeven point using INDEX and MATCH functions. This point is dynamic and will change if data is changed.

How To: Create a daily Gantt Chart in Microsoft Excel

New to Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly advanced as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this two-part Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 564th installment in their series of Excel magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a cell chart using conditional formatting with Logical TRUE FALSE formulas to create a Gantt Chart. Functions used include WORKDAY, AND, NOT, NETWORKDAY.

How To: Dynamically count unique words in a column in MS Excel

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 293rd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn two cell formulas and a named formula that will dynamically count unique words in a column. As you add new records, the count will automatically update. This is accomplished through use of Excel's MAX, ROW, OFFSET, SUMPRODUCT, ISTEXT and COUNTIF f...

How To: Make an Excel dynamic named range across multiple rows

Teach Excel demonstrates how to make an Excel dynamic named range across multiple rows. Highlight the cells that you want to include in your named range and give it a name. You can then use that name in formulas. But it's not a dynamic named range so it won't account for added information. Ctrl + F3 is the name manager shortcut and the F3 is the paste name shortcut. Use the name manager and highlight the named range. Delete the absolute cell references and type in offset. Then, select the fir...

How To: Use the range property in Excel macros

Microsoft excel is a powerful tool used to work with numbers and data by filling them down in rows and columns of a table. Excels also supports macros, which are small scripts to automate certain functions. In Microsoft Excel you can select entire rows and columns using the range property. You can also use macros to select individual rows and columns as well as multiple variations of rows, columns, and individual cells all at once. In Excel a horizontal line of data is called as row and a ver...

How To: Dual boot Windows XP & Vista

This video illustrates the quick and easy method to Dual boot Windows XP & Vista . The process is comprised of the following steps:Step 1: Install Windows XP OS on your PC. Run it and see if it works fine.Step 2: By using the Windows Vista OS setup , start the installation process and choose "Custom Installation" as the installation method.Step 3: Make sure you install Windows Vista on a Local Disk different from the one where Windows XP or any other Windows OS is installed as this may result...

How To: Use differential equations to solve for velocity

The guy first gives the definition of differential equations. He explains that a differential equation is an equation that contains the derivatives of an unknown function. He then gives some examples of differential equation and explains what the equation's order means. After that he gives an example on how to solve a simple equation. He calculates it and gives examples of graphs. Then he explains what a general solution is and how to narrow down the number of solutions using data from the pr...

How To: Find the percentage of total from a DB set in Excel

New to Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly advanced as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 480th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to calculate a percentage of total from a database data set when the variable of interest is text (word). This is accomplished with recourse to the COUNTIF, SUM & COUNTA functions.

How To: Make date & time calculations (sans weekends) in Excel

New to Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly advanced as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 533rd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a formula to calculate the difference between start date/time & end date/time excluding holidays and weekends. This is accomplished with recourse to Excel's NETWORKINGDAYS and MOD functions.

How To: Create dynamic sub tables in Microsoft Excel

New to Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly advanced as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 538th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create dynamic sub tables based on master sheet array as well as how to create array formulae quickly with the Drill-Through method. All this is accomplished with recourse to the COUNTIF, IF, ROWS, INDEX, SMALL, ROW functions.

How To: Create an Excel Gantt Chart by conditional formatting

New to Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly advanced as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 477th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a Gantt cell chart using conditional formatting. This is accomplished with recourse to the WORKDAY.INTL, AND, NOT & NETWORKDAYS.INT functions.

How To: Extract records that meet certain criteria in Excel

New to Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly advanced as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 186th installment in their series of Excel magic tricks, you'll see how to extract records that meet two conditions (criteria) and list them in order with no extra rows between records as well as how to create a formula to extract part of a table from a larger table based on two criteria. (All of this is accomplished through us...

How To: Use an XLR mic with a camcorder

How to Make Anything demonstrates how to use a three prong XLR mic with your camcorder. The XLR plug on the mic is not going to fit into the 1/8 inch plug on your camcorder so you will need an adapter. You can find an XLR to 1/8 inch adapter for about 10 dollars. Try to get an adapter with as short of a cord as possible to reduce noise and radio interference. You can also get an XLR box which is an interface which goes between your camera and the microphone. The XLR box will be about 180 doll...

How To: Pull text from Excel cells & separate into columns

Mastering your Excel skills? Have a busy Excel workbook or spreadsheet that needs to some organizing? In this two-part tutorial, learn how to pull text from cells & separate them into multiple columns in MS Excel. You will learn how to use the LEN(), FIND(), LEFT(), and RIGHT() functions to pull text from Microsoft Excel 2007 cells & assign them to different columns.

How To: Manage email with Conversation view in MS Outlook 2010

In this video David Rivers shows that the conversation look of Excel 2010 has greatly improved. Tracking and managing related emails, saves your inbox space to enable you to manage large number of emails effectively. By default, the conversations are arranged by date. Email interactions will have an arrow displayed. You can easily expand and collapse the conversation. The major improvement is the function of ignoring or clearing up conversation with just a few clicks. The future conversations...