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How To: Remove spaces from a Microsoft Excel formula

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 619th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll see how spaces in cells cause trouble in formulas and learn how to use the REPLACE, COUNTIF, CLEAN & TRIM functions to solve space-related formula problems.

How To: Perform the hand on body magic trick

This trick is great for anyone who is easy to fool - from little kids to drunk bar patrons. In this two part video, you will learn how to perform a super simple trick - no props needed - that will make everyone laugh. Ask a friend to touch a spot anywhere on their body with one hand that they are unable to touch with the other hand. Watch them stuggle and then check out part two of this clip to see the solution!

How To: Calculate bonuses based on years worked 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 601st installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the VLOOKUP & IF functions to make bonus calculations based on the number of years worked.

How To: Allow only Monday dates in a 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 593rd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to add data validation to allow only Monday dates in a cell using the custom option and the WEEKDAY function.

How To: Count with four 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 596th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the SERACH, ISNUMBER and SUMPRODUCT functions to count with 4 criteria including an all criteria option.

How To: Count times exceeding 5 minutes 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 17th installment in their joint series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create 5 formulas to count times greater than five minutes using Excel's COUNTIF and TIME functions.

How To: Increment column numbers for an Excel lookup 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 335th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to increment column numbers for a VLOOKUP lookup table when you are copying the formula down across the rows (down a column).

How To: Create a mortgage calculator 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 355th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use VLOOKUP to create a mortgage calculator that can handle four different types of loans: begin annuity, end annuity, interest only and "other."

How To: Highlight Excel values repeated a set number of times

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 350th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use conditional formatting and the COUNTIF function to highlight values that are repeated a given number of times.

How To: Count words with the COUNTIF function 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 266th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn see how COUNT and COUNTA have trouble counting only words or text and how to use a handy workaround.

How To: Randomly generate whole 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 17th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the RANDBETWEEN function to randomly generate whole numbers as well as how to randomly assign numbers to employees.

How To: Extract characters without leading zeroes 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 331st installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to extract individual characters without extracting the leading zeroes through use of the MID, VALUE and COLUMNS functions.

How To: Make an Excel Gantt chart that highlights workdays

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 327th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a Gantt Chart that will include highlight the workdays one color and weekends and holidays another color.

How To: Invert a range of 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 307th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the INDEX, ROWS, COLUMNS, LARGE, SMALL functions to create 4 different formulas that will invert a range of values.

How To: Fix date problems 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 301st installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to change Regional Settings to force Excel to accept 20th century (1900) dates.

How To: Do time calculations with Microsoft Excel's MOD

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 286th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to calculate hours worked for a night shift where workers start at 9 PM and end at 5 AM.