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How To: Create fast formulas for huge Excel spreadsheets

Are you looking for a way to make your Microsoft Excel formulas simpler, faster and more efficient? If so, you're in the right place. With this free video lesson from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, YouTube's ExcelsFun, the 10th installment in his "Excel Formula Efficiency" series, you'll learn how to use Manual Calculation for huge spreadsheets so that recalculation only occurs when you want it to occur.

How To: Format whole & decimal numbers 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 8th installment in his "Excel Business Math" series of free video lessons, you'll learn how to work with whole and decimal numbers. See how to write words to represent numbers (for checks). See how formatting can hide decimals.

How To: Solve markup & markdown math problems 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 32nd installment in his "Excel Business Math" series of free video lessons, you'll learn how to solve simple markup (mark-up) & markdown (mark-down) business math problems.

How To: Create digital makeup in Photoshop

There are so many ways to enhance your photos in Photoshop these days, it is amazing we need actual models at all! In this video, learn how to add or change the makeup on your model. If you have changed your artistic idea after shooting, or feel like your subject could just use a little something, check out this tutorial and learn how to add color to your photos.

How To: Avoid a #NUM! error when changing NPER inputs in Excel

Love Microsoft Excel? This clip contains a tip that just might induce you to. With this free video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 57th installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn how to avoid a #NUM! error when changing the formula input numbers for the NPER function. Learn to love digital spreadsheets more perfectly with the tricks outlined in this free Microsoft Office how-to.

How To: Remove duplicate entries with Excel's COUNTIF function

Love Microsoft Excel? This clip contains a tip that just might induce you to. With this free video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 55th installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn how to use the Excel 2007 remove duplicates tool and the COUNTIF function to count unique records that are greater than $30. Learn to love digital spreadsheets more perfectly with the tricks outlined in this free Microsoft Office how-to.

How To: Find the first instance of an item in Microsoft Excel

Love Microsoft Excel? This clip contains a tip that just might induce you to. With this free video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 32nd installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn how to use the MATCH & ROW functions to create a logical test to find the first occurrence of items in a list with duplicates.. Learn to love digital spreadsheets more perfectly with the tricks outlined in this free Microsoft Office how-to.

How To: Craft a pom-pom chicken with your kids

In a world filled with video games, arts and crafts is more important than ever. It's important to make sure kids are getting the right stimulation needed to help them later on in life. This video tutorial helps not only achieve that, but give them a great toy to play with as well. Find out how to make cool looking pom-pom chicken from scratch. Enjoy!

How To: Use SUMIFS or SUMPRODUCT to get invoice info 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 497th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll see a formula that uses SUMIFS or SUMPRODUCT functions that will take invoice information for inventory quantity sold and update inventory records to show correct amount on hand (in stock) for each store or branch of the company.

How To: Create an amortization table 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 515th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create an amortization table that will update when you pay extra principal so that loan is paid off early. See also how to make changes to a template, get into trouble, then trouble shoot your way out of it so that you can fix ...

How To: Enter VLOOKUPs in 4 different ways 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 527th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to enter VLOOKUPs 3rd Argument in four different ways: Number, COLUMN function, COLUMNS function, or MATCH function. col_index_num or Column Number for VLOOKUP

How To: Count blanks in an dynamic range 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 532nd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to count blanks in a dynamic range using the COUNTIF, INDEX, MATCH, COUNTA and OFFSET functions. Learn about the difference between an empty cell and a blank. Also see how to create dynamic ranges with INDEX and OFFSET (Index:Index).

How To: Check to see if a string contains a value 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 530th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the OR, SEARCH and ISNUMBER functions to see if the descriptions in a data set contain a given value (in this case, "Repair" or "Rework").

How To: Look up & retrieve a row of data from a table 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 552nd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to look up and retrieve a row of data from a table and display it vertically using the VLOOKUP and ROWS functions.

How To: Extract the nth word from a text string 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 559th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to extract the first, last or nth word from a text string using Excel's SUBSTITUTE, LEN, SEARCH, REPLACE, LEFT, RIGHT and MID functions.

How To: Extract first, middle, & last names 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 562nd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to extract first, middle and last names when the list contains names where some have a middle name and some do not using the LEFT, SEARCH, LEN, SUBSTITUTE, LEN, MID and IF functions.

How To: Create a line chart with time as its x-axis 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 284th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a line chart from years and percentage change. See how Excel makes the chart wrong, but then see how to fix it.

How To: Look up approximate values with VLOOKUP 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 112th installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn how to solve a common VLOOKUP problem — how to look up approximate values. If the lookup table for the VLOOKUP function is looking up approximate values, the first column of the table must be sorted in ascending order. Learn to love digital spreadsheets more p...

How To: Evaluate a random value against criteria 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 28th installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn how to use the INDEX, RANDBETWEEN, COUNTA, IF, AND, & VLOOKUP functions together to select a random employee from a list, determine if they have meet the given criteria and then conditionally format the relevant cells according to the result. Learn to love digi...

How To: Use numerical truth 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 367th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll see that the IF function sees -1, 1, 10 and -1.23 as TRUE and 0 as FALSE and learn how to use this fact to your advantage when writing formulas.

How To: Make up the eyes with digital eyeshadow

In this video, we learn how to put eyeshadow onto a picture using PhotoShop. First, open up the program and open your picture. Click on layer then new the click layer again.On the new layer put as blend mode "multiply". Make the opacity 50% and choose a color. Then select the brush that is the right size for your picture. Next, you will be able to brush the mouse over the eyelid and put eyeshadow onto the lid of the eye. You can change the intensity of the eyeshadow by changing the opacity hi...

How To: Return multiple items for a single Excel lookup value

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 581st installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to return multiple items from one lookup value and see a formula to return just the numbers from a column containing both text and numbers.

How To: Digitally sign and encrypt your email messages

The only people who should read your emails are you and your intended recipients. Protect your privacy with this simple crytography guide, which shows how to obtain a free certificate for signing and encrypting email messages, how to download and install the certificate on Mac OS X 10.5, and how to use the newly installed certificate in Apple Mail.

How To: Use gain and neutral density on a video camera

A common problem when shooting in low-light situations is that even if you open your lens to its lowest f-stop number, you're left with an image that's far too dark. One obvious remedy is to add more light. But what if you don't have more lights available to you? That's where the gain increase switch comes in. This free video cinematographer's guide will show you how to use digital gain settings to amplify available light to get better shots in less-than-ideal environments.

How To: Graph a linear equation using slope-intercept form

Are you "just not a math person"? Hogwash. Everyone seems to think that at one point in their life. With a little practice and study, math will become more and more easy to understand. Start your journey towards become a "math person" with help from this video, which teaches how to graph a linear equation using slope-intercept form.

How To: Calculate probabilities with Excel's NORMDIST function

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 22nd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the NORMDIST function to calculate probabilities for a population with a normal (bell) distribution! You even get to see the four types of situations that you most commonly encounter -- plus visual pictures of each situation...

How To: Extract dates and times from a database field 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 312th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the DATE, MID, LEFT and TIME functions to extract dates and times from a database field that stores dates and times as a text string.

How To: Use the MCONCAT 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 306th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use MCONCAT & LOOKUP functions to lookup values from a table and add results. Also see a formula that uses exponents instead of the MCONCAT concatenation function to look up and sum table values.

How To: Sum the values from many cells to a single Excel cell

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 298th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the SUMPRODUCT and MOD function to add up all hours in one cell worked by employees when time in and time out data are entered as time values.

How To: Create date labels with YEAR, DATE & TEXT 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 300th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the YEAR, DATE and TEXT functions and the ampersand (concatenation) to create a date label that adds leading zeros appropriately.

How To: Set & insert a formula name into an Excel print area

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 215th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a named formula with OFFSET & COUNTIF functions that defines a print area, and then insert the formula name into the print area name.

How To: Add scatter & bar data series to an Excel chart

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 204th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to add a mean value as a scatter diagram data series to a box plot or box & whisker that is set up as a bar chart.

How To: Add with case-sensitive criteria 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 204th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the SUMPRODUCT and EXACT functions in an array formula to add the sales for a sales representative where lower and upper letters matter (i.e., are case sensitive) in the criteria (conditions).

How To: Create formulas with table nomenclature on Excel 2007

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 200th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the Excel 2007 Table Nomenclature in formulas. See 9 examples of how to create formulas with table nomenclature in this free Excel video tutorial.

How To: Create a grade book based on a total score 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 193rd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the SUM and VLOOKUP functions to create a grade book based on a given total score that will automatically calculate grades.

How To: Use the text-to-column tool 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 192nd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to extract the middle name in quotes from a cell that has last, middle and first name using Excel's in-built text-to-column tool.

How To: Stop your dog from barking in the crate

Training your dog takes a lot of patience. It also requires you to put up with a whole lot of unwanted barking. Unless you're deaf or plan to be some time soon, training your dog to stop barking in the crate will make life a lot easier on you. This tutorial video will show you how to stop a dog from barking in the crate.

How To: Do dynamic range w/Excel's OFFSET function & top data

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 240th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a dynamic range with the OFFSET function and a named formula when new records are added at the top instead of the bottom.

How To: Display time over or under a hurdle 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 173rd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to show negative time with the "Use 1904 date system" as well as how to create a formula that will show the time over or under a given hurdle.