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How To: Filter records to a new workbook 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 249th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use Advanced Filter to extract records from a database (table or list) to a new workbook.

How To: Create a nested unique list via a pivot 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 250th 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 representatives using a pivot table (PivotTable).

How To: Create a chart for a linear function of X 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 239th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a chart for a linear function of X in Excel as well as how to use a text formula to display a function of X.

How To: Use Microsoft Excel's undocumented DATEDIF 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 151st installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to calculate the days, months or years between two dates using Excel's undocumented DATEDIF function.

How To: Extract records from a table to a column 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 137th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to extract records from standard table and put a record in a column using the VLOOKUP, IF and ROWS functions.

How To: Create a list of hyperlinks 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 139th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use a data validation list drop-down and the hyperlink function to create a list of links.

How To: Remove the last two words from 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. With this video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 393rd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet video tutorials, you'll learn how to remove the last two words from column of data with the LEN, SUBSTITUTE, FIND, REPT, RIGHT and TRIM functions.

How To: Use IS functions in Microsoft 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 101st installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use IS functions (ISBLANK, ISERR, ISERROR, ISLOGICAL, ISNA, ISNONTEXT, ISNUMBER, ISREF &ISTEXT).

How To: Use the EXACT function 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 9th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use Excel's EXACT function to check to see whether two text strings are equivalent and whether or not they have the same case.

How To: Convert currency with data from a web query 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 94th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use and link a currency web query to a data validation cell drop-down list for money conversion.

How To: Play a basic melody technique on the autoharp

This how to video installment explains a basic autoharp melody playing technique called "pinching". Playing melody on the autoharp is not as difficult as it may first appear. There are an awful lot of strings, but finding a melody note and playing it clearly isn't as hard as it seems. Pay attention to these harp playing tips.

How To: Exploit Microsoft Windows in new and unusual ways

In this installment from the Unorthodox Hacking series of computer security videos, you will explore a few of the areas in Windows that most Sysadmins don’t even know exist. See how to become Local System through the Task Scheduler and abuse long filenames. Take a look at some of the features within Windows—registry—that many system administrators don't know exist with this hacking how-to.

How To: Play with great time on the drums

The quality of the time you have when playing the drums is proportional to the quality of the time you keep. Ndugu Chancler is known not only as a world-class drummer and percussionist, but also a producer, composer, clinician and teacher. In this installment from his video lesson series covering many of the most frequently asked questions from his clinic tours across the world, Ndugu will teach how you to best develop your sense of time on the drums.

How To: Play the Ndugu cross stick beat on the drums

Ndugu Chancler is known not only as a world-class drummer and percussionist, but also a producer, composer, clinician and teacher. In this installment from his video lesson series covering many of the most frequently asked questions from his clinic tours across the world, Ndugu will demonstrate how to play the Ndugu cross stick, a rimshot played on drum with a unique, versatile sound.

How To: Remove a canker-diseased branch with a saw

Cankers, if left untreated, can grow and prove lethal for your trees. In this installment of the Fruitwise Heritage Apple guide to apple pruning, Stephen Hayes demonstrates how to amputate a diseased tree branch with a saw. Watch and learn why, as Stephen puts it, "a seen canker is a gone canker."

How To: Understand why apple trees need to be pruned

Each year an apple tree should produce three things: new growth, fruit buds on last year's and older growth, and fruit on those fruit buds formed in previous years. In order to keep an apple tree in balance and fruiting, one must prune. However, pruning is often done poorly. In this, the first installment of his series on practical apple tree pruning, Stephen Hayes of Fruitwise Heritage Apples looks at the general structure of the apple tree.

How To: Beat level 17 of Angry Birds Seasons with three stars

Beat the seventeenth level of Angry Birds Seasons with three stars! On December 1st, Rovio released their version of an advent calendar—Angry Birds Seasons (aka "Angry Birds Christmas"). Each day leading up to the Christmas holiday, a new level will become available to Angry Birds enthusiasts worldwide. Stuck? No problem: YouTube's 23hathman has pledged to post a three-star walkthrough for each of the game's levels. In this, the December 17th installment, we learn how to beat level 17.

How To: Beat level 16 of Angry Birds Seasons with three stars

Beat the sixteenth level of Angry Birds Seasons with three stars! On December 1st, Rovio released their version of an advent calendar—Angry Birds Seasons (aka "Angry Birds Christmas"). Each day leading up to the Christmas holiday, a new level will become available to Angry Birds enthusiasts worldwide. Stuck? No problem: a number of YouTube users have pledged to post a three-star walkthrough for each of the game's levels. In this, the December 16th installment, we learn how to beat level 16.

How To: Beat level 15 of Angry Birds Seasons with three stars

Beat the fifteenth level of Angry Birds Seasons with three stars! On December 1st, Rovio released their version of an advent calendar—Angry Birds Seasons (aka "Angry Birds Christmas"). Each day leading up to the Christmas holiday, a new level will become available to Angry Birds enthusiasts worldwide. Stuck? No problem: YouTube's 23hathman has pledged to post a three-star walkthrough for each of the game's levels. In this, the December 15th installment, we learn how to beat level 15.

How To: Beat level 14 of Angry Birds Seasons with three stars

Beat the fourteenth level of Angry Birds Seasons with three stars! On December 1st, Rovio released their version of an advent calendar—Angry Birds Seasons (aka "Angry Birds Christmas"). Each day leading up to the Christmas holiday, a new level will become available to Angry Birds enthusiasts worldwide. Stuck? No problem: YouTube's 23hathman has pledged to post a three-star walkthrough for each of the game's levels. In this, the December 14th installment, we learn how to beat level 14.

Quick scope in Call of Duty 7: Black Ops

Want to learn how to do quick scoping in BO? It's easy: use the variable scope and zoom in to the second or third level of magnification. Voilà. No more two-second delay when shooting. For a complete walkthrough of how to quick scope, watch this gamer's guide.

How To: Calculate liquidity ratios in Microsoft Excel 2010

As you might guess, one of the domains in which Microsoft Excel really excels is finance 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 16th installment in his "Excel Finance Class" series of free video lessons, you'll learn how to calculate liquidity ratios including current ratio, times interest earned and cash Ratio. Also see how current ratio changes when certain trans...

How To: Extract numbers from a text string with Excel's LEFT, SEARCH & TRIM functions

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 706th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to to use the LEFT, SEARCH and TRIM function to eaxtract numbers from a text string that can then be used in a calculating formula.

How To: Increment numbers in 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 692nd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to increment numbers in formulas to get 2,2,2,2,4,4,4,4 or 1,1,1,1,3,3,3,3 or 1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4 or 11,22,33,44 using the ROWS, INT, MOD and COLUMNS functions.

How To: Identify the first occurrence of a value in a column 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 697th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a column of 1s and 0s (ones and zeroes) where 1 indicates the first occurrence and 0 indicates any remaining duplicates.

How To: Calculate Commission Based on Varying Rates 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 673rd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the SUMPRODUCT formula to calculate commission amounts based on varying commission rates based on cumulative sales totals for each month.