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How To: Make a crocheted edge fleece blanket

Crocheting is a hobby that has been around for years and years. It's a very useful practice that can be used to make material that is necessary like blankets or shirts. In this video tutorial, you'll find out howt o make a crocheted edge fleece blanket using this easy to follow instructional video. So check it out and good luck!

How To: Copy documents to a CD using Windows XP

In this video, learn how to copy files from your PC to an external CD using Windows XP. This process, called burning, is super easy to do and very useful. You can use burning to share files, listen to music away from your computer, backup programs and many other things. Follow along as Computer Active demonstrates this simple process.

How To: Create a watermark from a logo in Photoshop

In this tutorial, learn how to convert a logo that was hand drawn and scanned, into a Photoshop custom shape with text and made a scalable vector watermark for your photography. This method is very useful so that no one will be able to claim or use your work as their own. Follow along and you will see just how easy this is.

How To: Grow potatoes in a bucket

Potatoes are a useful food item that can be used to make many favorite dishes. French fries, mashed potatoes, and mich more. Buying them from the market is obviously something that is easy to do, but making your own takes time but will result in much better potatoes for you and your loved ones. So find out how to grow potatoes in a bucket now. Enjoy!

How To: Make origami tissue foil paper

More advanced origami projects call for more advanced papers. In this tutorial, you'll acquire the art of paper making. Specifically, you'll learn how to make your own origami tissue foil paper, which has a much stronger hold than normal origami paper.

How To: Make an origami envelope

Looking for a cute, useful way to pass notes? With this guide, you'll learn how to make a paper envelope box using origami, the traditional art of Japanese paper folding. For more information, including a step-by-step overview of the folding process, as well as to get started making your own folded-paper envelopes, watch this free origami lesson.

How To: Fold an amazing paper plane glider

Not only is origami useful for making things that appear like they should be able to fly (like paper cranes), it's actually quite good at making things that do fly — like paper planes. With this guide, you'll learn how to make a paper glider with origami, the traditional art of Japanese paper folding. For more information, including a step-by-step overview of the folding process, as well as to get started making your own advanced paper planes, watch this free origami lesson.

How To: Make an Adjustable Switchback Strap

With only his hands and some sparse text, JD of Tying It All Together teaches us how to make an adjustable switchback strap. This is both an easy way to carry lots of cord or string with you into the wilderness and a stylish fashion accessory. Tis is a very useful item for anyone to carry with them into a survival situation.

How To: Fuse plastic bags into a laptop case

Recycle plastic bags! Watch this video to learn from Threadbanger how you can turn those wasteful and polluting plastic bags into something useful. Upcycle them into a laptop case. It's convenient and something you'll always have a need for. So why not? Watch this video and you can see how to turn this toxic product into something beautiful and utilitarian.

How To: Improve golf pitching with the basic techniques

In this tutorial, golf pro Chris Toulson demonstrates pitching basics including set up, wrist hinge, turning of the body and finish position. It is important to know these details when you play golf in order to guarantee the right swing. If you are a beginner, or just need some help with your swing, follow along with this video and learn some useful pro tips.

How To: Count with more than 1 criteria 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 and Mr. Excel, the 27th installment in their joint series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll see ten different methods counting with more than 1 criteria.

How To: Decrease 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 and Mr. Excel, the 2nd installment in their joint series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll see two methods for subtracting 35% from a column of values.

How To: Extract items not having a given text value 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 25th installment in their joint series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to extract records from databases that do NOT contain a given text value.

How To: Control percentages with a scroll bar 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 and Mr. Excel, the 46th installment in their joint series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create scroll bars that will control a percentage in a cell.

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.