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How To: Make a speedy paper airplane

In this video we learn how to make a speedy paper airplane. First, fold the paper in half and make a crease in the middle. Next, fold the corners down on the top. After this, fold these into another triangle going half way down the paper. Then, fold the tip all the way down so it rests on the opposite side of where it started. Do one more fold like the ones you did in the second and third steps. Make sure you are making crisp creases in the folds that you make. After this, fold the tip to the...

How To: Retrieve the cell address of the minimum value in a column 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 730th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a formula that will retrieve the cell address of the minimum value in column. To accomplish this, you'll use the ADDRESS, MATCH, INDEX, MIN, ROW and LOOKUP functions.

How To: Check whether quantities are equal in two lists in Microsoft Excel 2010

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 724th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to check if quantities are the same in two lists and show the differences if not, list the word "equal" if they are the same, and "not in list" if the lookup items is not in list using the MATCH, INSA, VLOOKUP and IF functions.

How To: Extract inconsistent name & e-mail data from a one-column list 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 712th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to take bad data set up in one column and make a proper table of data for a mail merge as well as how to extract name and e-mail data from a list in one column where records are entered inconsistently.

How To: Return every other cell in a row in Microsoft Excel 2010

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 700th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a formula that will retrieve every other cell in a row as you copy the formula across the columns.

How To: Look up and return two values to one 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 702nd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to look up two values at once and return then both to one cell using 2 VLOOKUP functions and concatenation (Ampersand &) or two cells using a single VLOOKUP and the COLUMNS function.

How To: Mix face paints with water

In this video, we learn how to mix face paints with water. First, you will dip your brush into water and then dip it into the paint color you want. Now, paint on your body where you want that color to do. When finished, place the brush into the water and swish it around until clean, then dip the brush into a new color and continue painting on your body with new brushes, cleaning them as you go. To use a sponge, dip the tip of the sponge into the water, then rub it into the paint color you des...

How To: Write heavy metal music with songwriting tips

System of a Down. Motley Crue. No matter who you are, a heavy metal song is almost instantaneously recognizable, with bands as diverse as System of a Down and Motley Crue banging out deep, distorted guitar riffs and emphatic beats. The muscal genre of heavy metal is a headache for adults and a form of rebellion for kids, which is why you'll always seen teens rebelling by blaring this music on full volume.

How To: Make a rosette and a swirl using the star tip

Cake decorating when we were little kids was pretty uncomplicated. Once the cupcakes were out of the oven, we'd scramble over to the counter, maybe secretly take a bite or two, and then whip out a spatula and begin slathering on icing. We would then finish off with a nice handful of rainbow sprinkles because sprinkles were pretty.

How To: Make sugar cookie dough with a good consistency

When we're baking sugar cookies, we all tend to do the same thing: Rush through the boring mixing and baking part, and then spend three times as long on putting on the icing and forming pretty motifs. But to create truly spectacular sugar cookies, there is more to crafting dough then simply throwing in the ingredients and blending.

How To: Do look-up addition with VLOOKUP & HLOOKUP 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 684th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to do single-condition lookup adding for both the VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP functions. You'll also learn how to use an array constant in the row/column num argument for the HLOOKUP and VLOOKUP functions.

How To: Ice a small cake for beginners

The video covers how to ice a cake. According to the video it is best to start by refrigerating the cake. You will need a 16" pastry bag with an icing tip on it. The tip should have a cerated edge on one side and a smooth edge on the other. Set the cake on a rotating plate. Rotate it and put a layer of icing all the way around the cake and then fill in the center. Once the cake is covered use a spatula and smooth out the icing. Then set the second cake on top of the first and put the icing on...

How To: Use Boolean math formulas in Microsoft Office 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 651st installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn see how to replace your IF function with a shorter Boolean Math formula! TRUE = 1, FALSE = 0, TRUE*2000 = 2000 and FASLE*2000 = 0.

How To: Create a dynamic frequency table & chart 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 636th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a dynamic frequency table and histogram chart using defined name formulas for dynamic ranges that use the INDEX function. See other formulas that use the COUNTIF, IF and ROWS functions that help to make it fully dynamic....

How To: Run a chart lookup with defined names 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 637th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a dynamic two data series line chart for blood pressures — how to look up a chart using defined names, a data validation list, and a formula using the INDIRECT function inside a picture of a chart.

How To: Carve a 3D pumpkin into a jack-o'-lantern in Blender

This spooky-themed tutorial presents a look at some of the techniques needed to create a jack-o-lantern from a pumpkin. Some of the techniques include using retopo, extrude and some manual modeling. The tutorial also provides a series of tips for easily managing your camera angle and spot lights. Whether you're new to the Blender Foundation's popular open-source 3D computer graphics application or are a seasoned digital artist merely on the lookout for new tips and tricks, you're sure to be w...

How To: Perform 5 exercises to firm stomach and thighs

This video demonstrates various different tips which will help you to strengthen the stomach and thighs. First of all, you should make sure that you are eating properly by eating more vegetables, whole grains, and cut down on junk food. Next, make sure to do cardio exercises, at least 3 hours a week. This increased oxygen consumption will be able to increase fat burning to get rid of fat around the stomach area. Another tip to help with burning fat and toning muscles is to focus on different ...

How To: Break up hours worked by shift 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 624th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to break apart the hours worked in a given day into one part for the day shift and a second part for the night shift using the MEDIAN function instead of the IF function. The MEDAIN function can be used when there are different ca...

How To: Sum year over year sales using MS Excel's SUMPRODUCT

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 611th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create an array formula to summarize year over year sales using the SUMPRODUCT and YEAR functions. Also see how to calculate a formula for percentage change.

How To: Look up a picture 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 42nd installment in their joint series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to look up a picture in Excel. See a VBA solution and a formula Solution using the INDIRECT function and named ranges.

How To: Use the NETWORKINGDAYS.INT function in MS Excel 2010

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 23rd installment in their joint series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the NETWORKINGDAYS.INT, RANK.AVE, PERCENTILE.EXC, CONFIDENCE.T, T.DIST, T.DIST.RT and T.DIST.2T functions in MS Excel.

How To: Use VBA code for conditional formatting 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 22nd installment in their joint series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use VBA code for conditional formatting as well as how to do it using the OFFSET, MOD and ROWS functions.

How To: Summarize survey data with a pivot table 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 20th installment in their joint series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to summarize survey data with a pivot table (grouping & report filter), COUNTIFS function (4 criteria), SUMPRODUCTS formula, SUMPRODUCTS & TEXT functions and DCOUNT database function.

How To: Do reverse lookups with VBA code 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 7th installment in their joint series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to complete a reverse lookup (find value inside table and then retrieve column and row header). Mr. Excel uses Excel VBA code (macro) and ExcelIsFun uses a formula with the INDEX, IF, SMALL, MATCH, TEXT, CHAR and...

How To: Create horizontal subtotals for a data set 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 5th installment in their joint series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create horizontal subtotals for a data set using the IF, SUM and SUMIF functions. Also see conditional formatting for non-contiguous cell ranges using a TRUE/FALSE logical formula with the NOT symbols.

How To: Find a weighted average cost ending inventory 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 and Mr. Excel, the 43rd installment in their joint series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to calculate weighted average cost ending inventory value from transactional records on 2 different sheets using the COUNTIF, SUMIF and SUMPRODUCT functions.

How To: Extract email extensions with filters 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 338th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the REPLACE and FIND functions in a new column to extract e-mail extensions, and then use Filter or Advanced Filter to Extract records according to e-mail extension.

How To: Return many items for a single lookup 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, the 90th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to write a formula that will return multiple items when there are two criteria for the data extraction. Also see an INDEX and MATCH functions formula that uses the SUMPRODUCT, COUNTIFS, IF, ROWS, INDEX, MATCH, SMALL, IF, and ROW fu...

How To: Summarize data in Excel with the consolidation feature

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 use the consolidation feature in Excel. Summarize data from a number of different tables quickly using consolidation.

How To: Extract records using MS Excel's advanced filter tool

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 525th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to extract records using advanced filter and wild-card criteria. See, for example, how to extract records that start with the letters W or J.

How To: Calculate probability in an Excel pivot 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 55th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to calculate probabilities with a pivot table (PivotTable). Specifically, you'll learn how to find joint, marginal and conditional probabilities.

How To: Validate data & look up 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 5th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to name a cell range, use data validation to add a drop-down list, and how to use the VLOOKUP function to look up values.

How To: Select numbers from a set without repeats 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 373rd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to select 3 numbers from 50 with no repeats. Also see how to select 3 names from a list of 10 with no repeats.

How To: Return the address of the 1st non-blank cell 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 363rd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create an array formula using the ADDRESS, MIN, IF, COLUMN & ROW functions that will return the address of the first non-blank cell in your Excel spreadsheet.

How To: Return a row's first non-blank 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 364th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create an array formula using the INDEX, MATCH & NOT functions that will return cell content from the first non-blank cell in a row.