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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: Extract first, middle, & last names 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 562nd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to extract first, middle and last names when the list contains names where some have a middle name and some do not using the LEFT, SEARCH, LEN, SUBSTITUTE, LEN, MID and IF 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: Use numerical truth 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 367th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll see that the IF function sees -1, 1, 10 and -1.23 as TRUE and 0 as FALSE and learn how to use this fact to your advantage when writing formulas.

How To: Do a backspring

In this how to video, you will learn how to perform a back spring. This is also known as a back hand spring. Start on a wedge mat and have a qualified spotter present. Next, swing your arms back and keep them locked at all times. Bend with your knees when you jump back and up. When in handstand position, push up with your shoulders and snap your legs down. Keep trying until you get comfortable with it. Once your are, move down the wedge and keep practicing the move. Now try the move without a...

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: 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: Use the MCONCAT 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 306th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use MCONCAT & LOOKUP functions to lookup values from a table and add results. Also see a formula that uses exponents instead of the MCONCAT concatenation function to look up and sum table values.

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: Add with case-sensitive 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 204th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the SUMPRODUCT and EXACT functions in an array formula to add the sales for a sales representative where lower and upper letters matter (i.e., are case sensitive) in the criteria (conditions).

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: Use the text-to-column tool 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 192nd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to extract the middle name in quotes from a cell that has last, middle and first name using Excel's in-built text-to-column tool.

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: Display time over or under a hurdle 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 173rd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to show negative time with the "Use 1904 date system" as well as how to create a formula that will show the time over or under a given hurdle.

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: Use the AVERAGE 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 145.75th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the AVERAGEIF (AVERAGE IF) function to create a formula that will calculate the average when you have more than 1 criterion.

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: Calculate excess over a hurdle 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 99th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the IF, MAX and the MIN functions to solve a basic problem in three different ways! See how to calculate the excess amount over a hurdle with three different methods!

How To: Add data series to a 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 92nd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to add data series to a chart, change the chart type for just one data series and see an excellent copy data to chart trick.

How To: Create formulas with workbook references 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. In this Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 182nd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create formulas with workbook references. See how to make a formula that looks at a range of cells in another workbook.

How To: Create an array for a stem-and-leaf chart in 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 376th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet video tutorials, you'll learn how to an array formula for a stem and leaf chart for numbers that have more than two digits. This is accomplished through use of the IF, COLUMNS, SUMPRODUCT, LEFT, RIGHT, FIXED, INDEX, SMALL and ROW functions.

How To: Calculate vacation days with TODAY, YEAR & IF 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 202nd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a formula that calculates the number of vacation days an employee gets based on hire date using the TODAY, YEAR and IF functions.

How To: Extract the top five records from a table in 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 273rd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to extract the top (i.e., max high) 5 values and their associated names from a column allowing for duplicates. This is accomplished with recourse to Excel's TRANSPOSE, COUNTIF, MAX, INDIRECT, IF, COLUMNS, INDEX, SMALL and ROW functions.

How To: Use Excel databases for home improvement calculations

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 236th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a database for keeping carpentry measurements as well as how to use a COUNTIF function formula for calculating how many lumber pieces you'll need to cut for your home improvement project.

How To: Replace a long IF with a MIN/MAX formula in 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 100th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to replace a long IF formula with a simple MIN/MAX formula (or an even simpler MEDIAN function). See 3 amazing examples. When you have a hurdle such a Commission Hurdle or a Payroll Taxable Earning Hurdle, and you are using an IF function fo...

How To: Show vendor names associated with a low bid in 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 518th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the INDEX, SMALL, IF, COLUMN, COLUMNS, COUNTIF and MIN functions to extract and display vendor names when multiple vendors are ties for a low bid.

How To: Bait a fishing rod

If you fish in a lot of weeds or where there are a lot of rocks, then check out this video tutorial. A fisherman will show you how to bait a fishing rod so you won't catch weeds and other things on your hook. Take action: be careful not to hook fingers, use a Gamakatsu hook and long plastic bait, and bury tip into bait. Ron, the instructor in this how-to video from Live Strong, is a professional bass fisher and has qualified for the Bass Master Classic and has won two B.A.S.S. Western Divisio...

How To: Tie a basic polymer fishing knot

When fishing you want to have a strong knot attaching your hook to your line. Learn how to tie a polymer knot from a fisherman in this video tutorial. Take action: put line through the jig, keep slack in the line loop, and run the jig through the loop. Ron, the instructor in this how-to video from Live Strong, is a professional bass fisher and has qualified for the Bass Master Classic and has won two B.A.S.S. Western Divisionals. He has also recorded multiple top ten finishes on F.L.W. tourna...