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How To: Calculate sales using a compact 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 602nd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a compact array formula that can total sales with 1 criteria when the database does not have a price or total sales column. See how SUMIF can be used to lookup values and simulate a missing column from a database.

How To: Extract the word that occurs most frequently 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 592nd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to extract word that occurs most frequently from a column of survey results that contain customer preferences for a product using the INDEX, MATCH, MAX and COUNTIF functions. This is a way to get the MODE for data that is made up ...

How To: Fix a DGET #NUM! error 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 595th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to resolve a problem that the DGET function and advanced filter have with criteria and duplicates. See how to switch to either the VLOOKUP function or not criteria for advanced filter.

How To: Randomly select a name from a list 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 11th installment in their joint series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a formula that will randomly select a name from a list of names without having the list of names sitting in cells.

How To: Do basic statistical analysis in Microsoft 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've come to the right place. In this tutorial from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, ExcelIsFun, the nth installment in his "Highline Excel Class" series of free video Excel lessons, you'll learn how to do basic statistical analysis in Excel. Specifically, this video covers the following topics:

How To: Create & work with pivot tables (PivotTables) 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've come to the right place. In this tutorial from everyone's favorite digital spreadsheet guru, ExcelIsFun, the nth installment in his "Highline Excel Class" series of free video Excel lessons, you'll learn how to create and work with pivot tables (PivotTables) in Microsoft Office Excel. Specifically, this video covers the following topics and examples:

How To: Use VLOOKUP function formulas in Microsoft 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 7th installment in his "Highline Excel Class" series of free video Excel lessons, you'll learn how to work with VLOOKUP function formulas in MS Excel. Specifically, you'll see the following:

How To: Create a formula timer in Microsoft Excel

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 2nd installment in his "Excel Formula Efficiency" series, you'll learn how to compare alternative formulas to see which is faster.

How To: Set up and use input areas 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 2nd installment in his "Beauty of Excel" series of free video lessons, you'll learn how to set up the input/assumption area for formulas so that subsequent formulas, functions and charts update beautifully. Learn how to build Excel spread...

How To: Use VLOOKUP queries inside of an MS Excel IF 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 588th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to determine whether an employee is exempt from a tax using a VLOOKUP in an IF function, and if not use a second VLOOKUP lookup query to look in tax tables to look up and calculate the tax

How To: Make an Excel formula for a decimal stem & leaf 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 589th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create an array formula for a stem and leaf chart for decimal numbers using the IF, COLUMNS, SUMPRODUCT, INDEX, INT, RIGHT, SMALL, ROW and TEXT functions.

How To: Count unique values greater than a hurdle 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 56th installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn how to use an array formula and the COUNTIF function to count unique records that are greater than a given hurdle (in this case, $30). Learn to love digital spreadsheets more perfectly with the tricks outlined in this free Microsoft Office how-to.

How To: Add a workbook reference to an Excel VLOOKUP formula

Love Microsoft Excel? This clip contains a tip that just might induce you to. With this free video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 52nd installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn how to have one workbook look into another workbook using a workbook reference. See also how to update workbook references. Learn to love digital spreadsheets more perfectly with the tricks outlined in this free Microsoft Office how-to.

How To: Look up a time value with Excel's VLOOKUP function

Love Microsoft Excel? This clip contains a tip that just might induce you to. With this free video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 48th installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn how to use the VLOOKUP, ISTEXT, ISBLANK, OR and IF functions in one formula to look up a time value. Learn to love digital spreadsheets more perfectly with the tricks outlined in this free Microsoft Office how-to.

How To: Extract only numbers from a text string array forumla

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 489th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to extract only the numbers from a text string. This is accomplished with recourse to Excel's LEN, INDIRECT, ROW, MID, ISNUMBER, INDEX, LARGE, SUMPRODUCT, and SUM functions.

How To: Use VLOOKUP to verify a record is in an Excel table

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 558th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to check if a record is in a table using VLOOKUP. See how to do this for a 2 column (field) table and a 4 column (field) table. See also how to add a concatenated column and concatenate lookup_value in VLOOKUP function.

How To: Look up formulas in Excel with the CHOOSE 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 557th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the CHOOSE function look up a formula or function depending on your drop-down selection. See also how to create combo box form controls and data validation lists with the VLOOKUP function.

How To: Create a two-variable data 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 255th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a two-variable data table in Excel for what-if analysis. See the PMT function and learn about the formula equivalent to a data table.

How To: Quickly create columns of words & numbers 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 390th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a column of words and numbers quickly with two different formulas as well a a mouse trick that will allow you to paste special values.

How To: Delete only cell content or 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, the 575th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to selectively delete. Specifically, you'll se how to delete the cell contents only, formatting only, the entire cell, or formatting and content together.

How To: Create dynamic ranges for formulas with Excel's OFFSET

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 584th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the OFFSET function and defined names to create dynamic ranges for formulas so formulas update each period when a new data dump (copy and paste) is completed.

How To: Build a conditional average calculation table in Exel

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 583rd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the AVERAGEIF & IFERROR functions with absolute and mixed cell references to create a large table of conditional average calculations (averaging with criteria).

How To: Fix the nine most common types of Excel errors

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 582nd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to understand and fix the nine most common formula errors in Microsoft Excel. Specifically, you'll learn how to interpret and resolve #######, #NAME?, #N/A, #REF!, #VALUE!, #NUM!, #DIV/0!, Circular Cell Reference, and #NULL! errors.

How To: Use comparative operators with letters 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 386th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to add conditional formatting for letters less than the letter M. Yes! Comparative operators like less than (<) work on letters!

How To: Format field 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 378th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to format field names. If field names have formatting, Excel understands that they are field names and should not be used as data.

How To: Create a dynamic area 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 351st installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create an area chart for x and f(x) data as well as how to use the IF function to show a second data set plotted to show a specific area section.

How To: Randomly generate letters 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 18th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the ROW, CHAR and RANDBETWEEN functions to randomly generate letters. See also how to randomly create letter sequences.

How To: Make an Excel gradebook that drops the 2 lowest scores

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 196th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the SUM, SMALL and VLOOKUP functions to create a gradebook (or grade book) based on a total score minus the two lowest scores.

How To: Make an Excel gradebook that removes the lowest score

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 195th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the SUM, MIN and VLOOKUP functions to create a grade book based on given total score that drops the lowest score and calculates grades automatically.

How To: Rearrange parts of a text string 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 190th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to rearrange three parts in a text string (e.g., last, first, middle name) using the RIGHT, FIND, LEN, & LEFT functions in one formula.

How To: Disable iPhoto's auto open when you connect a camera

By default, iPhoto will open as soon as your Mac detects a digital camera or iPhone. In this tutorial, learn how to change your iPhoto settings so that it does not automatically open. The auto open is a good feature, but can be annoying, especially if you are just using your computer to charge your device and do not need to import any files. iPhoto's auto-open can disrupt other activities you may be involved in on your computer. In this video, Luke will take you step by step through the proce...

How To: Extract digits to the right of a decimal 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 580th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the REPLACE, MID, COLUMNS and SEARCH functions to extract numbers to the right of a decimal into their individual cells.

How To: Use a data table for what-if analysis 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 253rd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use a data table for what-if analysis. You'll also learn about the PMT and see the formula equivalent to a data table.

How To: Create nested unique lists in Excel via array formulas

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 251st installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a unique list of customers within a unique list of sales reps using a series of standard formulas in tandem with a few array formulas.

How To: Force text formulas to wrap with Excel's CHAR 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 228th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the CHAR (10) function to add hard line returns (forced wrapped text) to a text formula created with the ampersand (&) and concatenation tools.

How To: Sum a table of data by year & 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 183rd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to sum revenue from a table of data by year and month using the SUMPRODUCT, TEXT, SUM, IF & LEFT functions in an array formula.

How To: Compare two tables and list unique items 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 156th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a formula that will check two tables and find the values that do not match and then create a new list.

How To: Generate a dynamic list from a table 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 146th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to extract records from table, putting one record on each sheet with records in rows. This is accomplished with Excel's VLOOKUP, COLUMN, FIND, REPLACE and CELL functions. See also how to create a formula for a sheet name (sheet tab name, works...

How To: Count unique items with multiple criteria in 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. With this video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 368th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet video tutorials, you'll learn how to create and use an array formula that will permit you to count unique items within a column while specifying more than one criterion. This guide uses the SUM, IF FREQUENCY, MATCH, ROW, and ISNUMBER functions (in a somewhat unusual combi...