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How To: Use names and wildcards with Excel's COUNTIF function

Looking for a primer on how to create and work with names in Microsoft Office Excel? You've come to the right place. In this free video tutorial from everyone's favorite MS Excel guru, YouTube's ExcelIsFun, the 6th installment in his series of Excel name tricks, you'll learn how to use the Names & Wildcards with the COUNTIF function. Specifically, see how to search through a list of addresses and count just the ones on Birch Street in this free video lesson.

How To: Group quantitative data into classes in MS Excel

If you use Microsoft Excel on a regular basis, odds are you work with numbers. Put those numbers to work. Statistical analysis allows you to find patterns, trends and probabilities within your data. In this MS Excel tutorial from everyone's favorite Excel guru, YouTube's ExcelsFun, the 20th installment in his "Excel Statistics" series of free video lessons, you'll learn how to take raw quantitative (numerical) data and figure out how to group it into classes so that you can have categories an...

How To: Build confidence intervals given the sigma in MS Excel

If you use Microsoft Excel on a regular basis, odds are you work with numbers. Put those numbers to work. Statistical analysis allows you to find patterns, trends and probabilities within your data. In this MS Excel tutorial from everyone's favorite Excel guru, YouTube's ExcelsFun, the 81st installment in his "Excel Statistics" series of free video lessons, you'll learn how to construct confidence intervals when the sigma (population standard deviation) is known. See how the CONFIDENCE and NO...

How To: Create a relative frequency distribution in MS Excel

If you use Microsoft Excel on a regular basis, odds are you work with numbers. Put those numbers to work. Statistical analysis allows you to find patterns, trends and probabilities within your data. In this MS Excel tutorial from everyone's favorite Excel guru, YouTube's ExcelsFun, the 14th installment in his "Excel Statistics" series of free video lessons, you'll learn how to create relative & percent & frequency distributions with formulas for categorical data. See, too, how to create a per...

How To: Make calculations in Excel with formulas & references

If you use Microsoft Excel on a regular basis, odds are you work with numbers. Put those numbers to work. Statistical analysis allows you to find patterns, trends and probabilities within your data. In this MS Excel tutorial from everyone's favorite Excel guru, YouTube's ExcelsFun, the 2nd installment in his "Excel Statistics" series of free video lessons, you'll learn how to make calculations in Excel using formulas and cell references. Learn about the different Excel Math operators and func...

How To: Deliver words to a cell via IF, AND & VLOOKUP in Excel

Love Microsoft Excel? This clip contains a tip that just might induce you to. With this free video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 35th installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn how to use the IF, AND and VLOOKUP functions to deliver the words Bid, No Bid, or Alert to a cell. Is VLOOKUP better than IF AND? Find out with this free video lesson.

How To: Use SUMIFS or SUMPRODUCT to get invoice info 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 497th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll see a formula that uses SUMIFS or SUMPRODUCT functions that will take invoice information for inventory quantity sold and update inventory records to show correct amount on hand (in stock) for each store or branch of the company.

How To: Check to see if a string contains a value 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 530th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the OR, SEARCH and ISNUMBER functions to see if the descriptions in a data set contain a given value (in this case, "Repair" or "Rework").

How To: Look up & retrieve a row of data from a 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 552nd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to look up and retrieve a row of data from a table and display it vertically using the VLOOKUP and ROWS functions.

How To: Extract the nth word from a text string 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 559th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to extract the first, last or nth word from a text string using Excel's SUBSTITUTE, LEN, SEARCH, REPLACE, LEFT, RIGHT and MID functions.

How To: Create a line chart with time as its x-axis 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 284th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a line chart from years and percentage change. See how Excel makes the chart wrong, but then see how to fix it.

How To: Change Excel options directly in the Registry

This video shows us the method to block the formula bar, scroll bars and the status bars in Excel. Click on 'Start' and type 'regedit'. Click on 'regedit' and go to 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER'. Open it and go to 'Software' and 'Microsoft'. Expand it and go to 'Office' and open the version of Office on your computer. Expand it and go to Excel. Choose the options folder. Go to the 'Options' item and right click on it. Go to 'Modify' and type 150 in the text box. Click on 'OK'. Now restart the Excel and...

How To: Set-up a new email address in MS Outlook Express

Carole Gallesie from Creative Media Web shows viewers how to set up a new account in Microsoft Outlook Express. Express is preferred because it is a scaled-down version of the popular email client and it is easier to navigate. From your Windows desktop, go to the start menu, all programs, and click on outlook express. When the program opens, look at the top of the page for the "tools" menu, select accounts, add, and mail. The new account wizard will then appear and will walk you through setup...

How To: Sync Google Calendar with the Apple iPad Calendar app

This video teaches you to sync Google Calender with the Apple iPad Calender app. The first step involves going to 'Settings' and then to 'Mail Contacts Calenders'. Add an account to the application. For doing this, go to Microsoft Exchange. Type in your email ID in the space provided for it and skip domain. Type in your username and password. Click on 'Next' and 'Accept' in the resulting box. Then a box named 'Server' appears. For the server type 'm.google.com' and click 'Next'. Turn off the ...

How To: Find the diagonal sum in Excel

In this how to video, you will learn how to create a diagonal sum in Microsoft Excel 2007. First, open the program and make a large selection. Type in =int(rand()*500) and then press control enter. This will create random numbers for the cells in the selection. From here, click conditional formatting and select new rule. From here, type in =column(A1)-row(A1)=$H$1. For the format, choose a contrasting look, such as a purple background and bold numbers. Click okay. If you type -1 or -2 in this...

How To: Secure a Linksys wireless router when running Windows

Ever had router trouble? Got router trouble? Well don,t worry the people over from quickcert.com have made this video to help! More specifically a linksys 802.11g router. All new routers come with a standard Ethernet cable, which must be plugged into one of the four ports on the router and connected to your computer as well. This is necessary to change settings, using Microsoft IE (internet explorer) when the routers IP is typed into the address bar. It is strong recommended to change the def...

How To: Return multiple items for a single Excel lookup value

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 581st installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to return multiple items from one lookup value and see a formula to return just the numbers from a column containing both text and numbers.

How To: Open and replace a Zune 80GB hard drive

In this how-to video, you will learn how to dismantle an 80GB Microsoft Zune and remove the hard drive. You will first remove the cap at the end. Remove the screws at the bottom. Next, unclip the sides, top, and bottom of the Zune. You can use a prying tool to help you with this. Do this slowly, as you might damage the Zune. Once you can remove the back cover, you will have access to the internal parts of the mp3 player. Remove the tape holding the components together. Next, remove the screws...

How To: Calculate probabilities with Excel's NORMDIST 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 22nd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the NORMDIST function to calculate probabilities for a population with a normal (bell) distribution! You even get to see the four types of situations that you most commonly encounter -- plus visual pictures of each situation...

How To: Extract dates and times from a database field 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 312th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the DATE, MID, LEFT and TIME functions to extract dates and times from a database field that stores dates and times as a text string.

How To: Sum the values from many cells to a single Excel cell

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 298th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the SUMPRODUCT and MOD function to add up all hours in one cell worked by employees when time in and time out data are entered as time values.

How To: Create date labels with YEAR, DATE & TEXT 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 300th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the YEAR, DATE and TEXT functions and the ampersand (concatenation) to create a date label that adds leading zeros appropriately.

How To: Set & insert a formula name into an Excel print area

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 215th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a named formula with OFFSET & COUNTIF functions that defines a print area, and then insert the formula name into the print area name.

How To: Add scatter & bar data series to an Excel 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 204th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to add a mean value as a scatter diagram data series to a box plot or box & whisker that is set up as a bar chart.

How To: Create formulas with table nomenclature on Excel 2007

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 200th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the Excel 2007 Table Nomenclature in formulas. See 9 examples of how to create formulas with table nomenclature in this free Excel video tutorial.

How To: Create a grade book based on a total score 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 193rd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the SUM and VLOOKUP functions to create a grade book based on a given total score that will automatically calculate grades.

How To: Do dynamic range w/Excel's OFFSET function & top data

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 240th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a dynamic range with the OFFSET function and a named formula when new records are added at the top instead of the bottom.

How To: Create a column of unique values in an Excel LU 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 159th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to solve Duplicate VLOOKUP function problems with a COUNTIF formula that creates a column of unique values for the first column in the lookup table.

How To: Use an OFFSET as a dynamic range in an Excel 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 158th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the VLOOKUP function to retrieve data and the OFFSET function to look at just part of the desired table.

How To: Extract records from non-blank fields 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 152nd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the advanced filter and a TRUE/FALSE formula in a column to extract records that contain a non-blank value in a specified field. (column).

How To: Conditionally format dates & weekends 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 apply custom number formatting as well as how to conditionally format dates and weekends using a TRUE FALSE formula with the AND and WEEKDAY functions.

How To: Convert integers to dates with Excel's DATE 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 141st installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to take the number 1 (for day one of the month) and use the DATE function to convert it to a serial number formatted as a date.

How To: Speed up Windows Vista in three steps

This video will show you how you can increase the speed that your Microsoft Windows Vista runs by using several different methods. You can disable the transparency function and go to a basic mode. Clearing disc space will also make your computer run faster. You can just run a disk clean up. Finally you will want to do a disk defragment your computer. If your computer is running a little slower than you’d like then try doing these three things and you should gain a little speed.

How To: Quickly set up Homegroups in Windows 7

This video tutorial from pctechbytes presents how to quickly set up Homegroups in Microsoft Windows 7.This feature allows to easily share files between computers with Windows 7 operating system.Press Start button, select My Computer option. In the newly opened window select Homegroup from the list to the left. Select View Homegroup Settings link.In this window you can choose what types of documents you want to share with other Windows 7 operating system users.You can share pictures, documents...

How To: Incorporate music into a PowerPoint presentation

This video provides step-by-step instructions for how to insert sounds or music into a PowerPoint presentation, using Microsoft Office 2007. The narrator uses the insert sound tool and selects an audio file that, and demonstrates how to make it play automatically when the PowerPoint slide show is played. He also shows how to customize the effect options by using the animations tab, which allows you to choose when the track starts and finishes, for how many slides, and at what volume. After wa...

How To: Enable javascript and accept cookies in MS Explorer

This video will show you how to enable JavaScript, accept cookies, and allow pop ups in Microsoft Explorer. The first thing you will need to do is to go to tools on the menu bar, then choose options, and choose the security tab of the new window that will pop up. To enable JavaScript click custom level, scroll all the way down until you see the scripting section, make sure that all three radio buttons are set to enabled, and finally click ok. To enable cookies, go to the privacy tab and make ...

How To: Add music and video to a PowerPoint presentation

Microsoft PowerPoint can be used to create power presentations. These presentation can contain images, animations, audio and video. Open your PowerPoint presentation. Go to the insert and select the audio and video option. Now browse to the file on your hard disk and select it. You can even select a video file to make your presentation better. Now this video will be added to your slide in the presentation. You can also choose different settings to the video and customize it. You can also sele...

How To: Draw an 8-bit Luigi in MS Paint

This simple tutorial teaches you how to create a classic 8-bit Luigi from the Nintendo franchise Super Mario Brothers in the Microsoft paint program. To start, open Paint. Select Image-> Attributes and change the image width to 12 pixels and the height to 16 pixels. Use the zoom tool to zoom in 8x and select the paint bucket tool to make the background gray, because a large portion of Luigi is white. Then use the pencil tool (set to 1 pixel) to begin drawing Luigi starting with his black shoe...

How To: Put a video on PowerPoint

In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to add a video into PowerPoint. This video is using Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007. Begin by opening the program and create a new slide. Click on the Developer tab and select the More Controls icon. Scroll down the list and look for Shockwave Flash Object. Now crop the size that you want the video to be. Right-click on the crop and select Properties. In Movies, paste the link of a video that you want. Delete the "watch?" in the link and replace the ...