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How To: Build a backyard quarterpipe for snowboarding

In this video, our author, Jimmy Jacobs, shows us how to build a quarter pipe. He shows use many ways to grip the shovel to form our quarter pipe such as “the granny” or the “railroad”. Please make sure your shovel has a sharp tip, otherwise this will be difficult. From here, just repeatedly hit your pile of snow with the sharp tip of your shovel to smooth out the surface. It is important to note that you it helpful to build your pile first, instead of trying to smooth the snow before...

How To: Use a curved needle for suturing arterial lines

This video shows the method to suture arterial lines using a curved needle. We will use the new arterial line kit for our demonstration. We will use a curved needle as it is safer than the straight needle. Hold the suture with the hamostat at about sixty percent from the tip of the needle. Do the turn the key method to bring the needle out from the other side. Unclamp it and re-clamp it at the tip of the needle. Continue the turn the key method. Pull the suture up and through. Cut the suture ...

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: Paint nails with a gold glitter flower design

In this video it is demonstrated that how to Paint nails with a gold glitter flower design. First of all apply red glitter French tip manicure on your nails, now reapply red glitter nail polish on it so that tips get darker. Now take a golden polish and apply it to half way rest nails with the help of sponge. Now apply big and small glitter to your nails to become more shiny. Now to make flowers on your nails, take white nail polish, gallop paper and start making dots such a way that it looks...

How To: Paint nails with a pink, silver and black art theme

Love4Nails starts off with pink, silver, and black nail polish. First choose one of your colors to create a French tip manicure. She next takes the silver polish, starts at the bottom and creates a swirl around the nail. Swerve the silver in a way that it covers the French tip part of the nail. Then get the pink glitter and apply only on pink polished area. Place black rhinestones on the swirled area of the nail. Because you're using the pink glitter polish, if you choose not to add rhineston...

How To: Accurately shoot a compound bow

In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to shoot a compound bow. It is deeply recommended that users who use a compound bow should have a release. Put your arrow on the string and push it in until you hear a click. Now hook the release into the D-loop. Your feet should be shoulder width apart and the tips of your feet should be on the target line. Now look at the target and pull back the bow. Your hand should be at the point of your jaw, arrow at the corner of your mouth and string on the t...

How To: Dress fashionably and professionally

How we dress can matter a lot when it comes to our professional advancement? Christina Vonges gives useful tips on how to dress professionally yet fashionably in this how to video. Adding a bold scarf will add a punch to any basic outfit. When looking for a job Invest on a suit in classic and solid colors. Paring black with a pop color like blue and red signals for a after office party evening. Keep your dressing style clean and simple. This will give a conservative and traditional look. Peop...

How To: Prepare for the SAT math section

How to prepare for the math section of SAT:Eva for brightstorm2 gives us a few quick tips to solve the math section in the SAT test. They are simple, easy yet crucial to help you get through the math section. Let us begin with the basics. Basic are simple tips like read carefully, use your calculator wisely, use all the information given, do not worry about formulae and symbols, tackle the “always”, “never”, “must and “could and “can” problems. To explain them in detail; you should pay attent...

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: Paint your nails with a pink and silver glitter design

Make sure you nails are already clean and dry. Choose you colors. Add the lightest color first. Using a makeup sponge works great to apply the fading effect. Apply to French manicure area not straight. Reapply pink polish just at the tip of the nail. Apply glitter polish over the pink on the tip of the nail. After applying the shimmer get the nail art polish and make your deign. Make sure your brush is thinned out. Add your design then you can add your gem stones and finish it off with some c...

How To: Indentify problems with the ash & golden rain tree

In this how-to video, you will learn how to identify and control problems with Ash and Golden Rain Trees. If there are discolorations in the tree branch, there may be a few problems. If you see a severe orange color, this will damage the tree. You can paint the tree with a white paint to avoid this problem. Pruning cuts that have been executed poorly will also cause discoloration and rot. If the leaves have tip burn, this may mean that the air is dry and arid. If twigs on Junipers look dirty ...

How To: Take Apart Your PS3 to Clean the Lens

This video shows how to take apart a Play Station 3 (PS3) in order to clean the disc reading lens. First locate the sticker that says "void if removed" and remove the plastic cover from this point with a screw driver. Once this cover is removed there is a second cover which is removed by unscrewing the nine screws which hold it into place and rotating the cover towards the front of the device. Disconnect the disc housing on the right by pulling out the smaller cable then remove the five screw...

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.