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How To: Create a frequency distribution 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 15th installment in their joint series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use a pivot table with grouping and a count function to create a frequency distribution.

How To: Find a mean for data set while excluding 0s 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 and Mr. Excel, the 13th installment in their joint series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create formulas that will calculate the AVERAGE excluding zeros (0) in the original data set.

How To: Add the difference between 2 number columns 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 339th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the SUMPRODUCT function to add the difference between two columns of numbers based on two criteria.

How To: Count dates with an array 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 142nd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a complex array formula that counts weekends between two dates with the SUM, IF WEEKDAY, ROW and INDIRECT functions.

How To: Retrieve data from a different workbook 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 90th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a dynamic, two-way IF function lookup formula for pulling data from a different Workbook.

How To: Fix poorly set up data 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 507th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to take badly setup data (not in database/table format) and summarize it by date and shipping name into table format report.

How To: Count with two 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 529th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the SUMPRODUCT and COUNTIFS functions to count how many sales you made for a given product over the last 7 days.

How To: Count whole and half workdays 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 535th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the NETWORKDAYS, NETWORKDAYS.INTL, WEEKDAY, ROW, INDIRECT and SUMPRODUCT functions to count weekdays including half (1/2) workdays.

How To: Calculate commissions with Excel's IF & VLOOKUP

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 555th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the IF and VLOOKUP functions to make one of two types of commission calculations based on what is put in the referral column.

How To: Conditionally format a bar 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 566th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the IF functions and a bar chart to create a conditionally formatted chart for students scores that exceed a given hurdle.

How To: Use the STDDEV 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 standard deviation when you have more than 1 criterion.

How To: Use multiple cells as a single Excel COUNTIF variable

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 269th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to get criteria from four (4) different cells and combine (join) them into one criterion for the COUNTIF function.

How To: Create a list of items with a 2-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 187th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn two different array formula types for creating a unique list of items for a large list containing duplicates.

How To: Move the active cell in a selected range 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 389th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use a ctrl-period keyboard shortcut to quickly move the active cell in a selected range.

How To: Highlight cells with PC keyboard shortcuts 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 384th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use an easy go-to/enter keyboard shortcut trip that will allow you to highlight 1000 (100x100) cells.

How To: Make a bootable ISO image or CD/DVD

Ali440134 demonstrates how to make a bootable ISO image or a CD / DVD disk. Making a bootable ISO disk is easy and requires just a few simple steps to complete. First, use the Magic ISO program to make the disk. Open Magic ISO and click your desired file. Then, click the open button. Your Magic ISO panel should then say Bootable which means that you can make a bootable disk. Next click tools and under the tools drop down menu click the burn CD / DVD with ISO option. Then, select your file and...

How To: Merge two list tables and delete duplicates 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 381st installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to merge two lists into one list while keeping unique items from list 1 and list 2 and removing duplicates.

How To: Match two lists 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 382nd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to match values in lists and, where there are matches, take the second column from each table and put it in new table.

How To: Count only even or odd 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 370th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the SUMPRODUCT and MOD functions in formula to count either odd or even numbers.

How To: Use Microsoft Excel's MAX IF & RANK 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 344th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to find the max value given more than one critereon (i.e., multiple criteria).

How To: Add data to an Excel cell range via keyboard shortcut

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 4th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to add data or a formula to a range of cells by using the Excel's ever-useful ctrl+enter keyboard shortcut.

How To: Break up an entry into multiple cells 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 8th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to take a column of text and break it apart into separate columns using Excel's text-to-column tool.

How To: Calculate percentage change 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 267th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to calculate percentage change using a simple universal formula: (End Value)/Beg Value)/Beg Value = Percentage Change.

How To: Use a keyboard shortcut to create a chart in Excel 07

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 2nd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create charts via keyboard shortcut as well as how to create dynamic charts with cell references.