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How To: Create a simple IF function formula with text 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 217th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a simple If function formula that uses a logical test that involves text (instead of a number).

How To: Use ctrl-enter keyboard shortcuts 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 208th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the keyboard ctrl-enter keyboard shortcuts to speed up common tasks in Microsoft Excel.

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: Fold a Magic Rose Cube—A Flower in a Box Origami Puzzle

To play off Gertrude Stein's famous quote, a rose is a rose is a magic paper cube. And with this paper folder's guide, you'll learn how to make your very own magic rose cube from paper using the Japanese art of origami. This design by Valerie Vann, and folded by YouTuber German Fernandez, is great for Valentine's Day or any other day where a paper puzzle rose is needed. Just be prepared... it's a not just a puzzle origami rose, it's a puzzle folding it.

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: 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: Do the slip cut sandwich card trick

If you've ever wanted to do card magic tricks or just want to know how a certain magic card trick is done then watch and learn how to perform the slip cut sandwich card trick. This is a simple card trick can be done by anyone regardless of experience, you want to being by stating that the two jacks are going to assist you in finding the card. Then have a spectator tell you when to stop when your riffling through the deck. When told to stop just pull two cards out as one and place at the top o...

How To: Make your own origami magic ball

Tutorial of how to quickly make and Origami Magic Ball! Get a piece of 20x40cm paper. Fold along side in 32 equal parts, by repeatedly folding the paper in half - using genderless folds. Fold the short side in 8 equal parts- using valley folds. Turn the sheet over and start diagonal folds - using valley folds into 32 parts. Roll paper out flat, and fold it zigzag following previously made genderless folds. At corner of paper, create a "water bomb" by pressing together previously made folds fo...

How To: Perform a "one face up" false cut card flourish

Watch this video tutorial to learn how to perform a "one face up" false cut card flourish. A card flourish is something a magician uses, a technique for handling playing cards, mostly during magic card tricks. Is it magic though? No, just a little sleight of hand a fancy showmanship. See how to do the OFU (one face up) false cut.

How To: Perform a riffle fan card flourish

Card flourishes are more of an art form, not really necessary for your magic card tricks and illusions, but really cool to impress your friends. Watch this video tutorial to learn how to perform a riffle fan card flourish, which you can use to either fan your cards out, or as a riffle by itself. This riffle fan card flourish is an impressive card trick, no magic involved.

How To: Perform the one-handed revolution cut card trick

What to be a magician, but only when it comes to card tricks? Just Flourish will help you improve your magic skills with that deck of cards. This video specifically covers how to perform the one-handed revolution cut card trick. This basic "magic revealed" tutorial into the land of card tricks will show you just how to do the revolution cut.

How To: Use Magic iDVD

If you already have movies and photos on your hard disk and want iDVD to automatically create a DVD that includes Apple-designed menus, you can use Magic iDVD.

How To: Perform an amazing '4 of the same' magic card trick

You might have to watch this explanation a few times before you actually get the entire card trick, but once you do, hopefully you'll be able to perform the '4 of the same' magic card trick without hesitation. It is a little tricky, of course, but it's worth the lesson. This amazing card trick involves turning a mixd deck of cards into 13 piles from ace to king in piles of 4. This is a great magic trick for beginners and advance magicians alike. Watch the first video for the explanation and t...