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How To: Convert a text formula/function to a number in Excel

Love Microsoft Excel? This clip contains a tip that just might induce you to. With this free video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 44th installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn use 4 different tricks to convert a text formula or function to a number. Also see how to convert text to numbers. Learn to love digital spreadsheets more perfectly with the tricks outlined in this free Microsoft Office how-to.

How To: Perform the Faro Shuffle card trick

To do the Faro shuffle card trick, first divide the deck in half. With practice you should be able to accurately make an even division. Hold your left hand underneath the deck and your right hand on top of the deck. Use the two halves to square up the deck. Go in on an angle, intertwining the cards. Make them meet on the bottom and apply a little bit of pressure to them. They will naturally intertwine. Spread out the cards on a table in two columns to check your shuffling technique. You can a...

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: Peel and cut butternut squash

The skin on a butternut squash is not the easiest to remove. But there are a few tricks to hacking off the outer skins of the squash. This video will show you the trick to peeling and cutting the butternut squash the easiest way. You could use a knife to peel, but the best option is a serrated vegetable peeler. Once peeled, it's a matter of slicing and dicing the squash to perfection, in the best manner. See all the details within the video.

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.

How To: Pull an Excel cell value from the first non-blank row

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 365th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use an amazing non-array formula to return the cell content from the first non-blank cell in a specified row.

How To: Use Excel's VLOOKUP with dates to retrieve the season

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 353rd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to make date calculations with Excel's VLOOKUP formula (e.g., finding approximate matches and returning a season for a date within a given range).

How To: Do date calculations 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 12th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to calculate the time between 2 dates like invoices past due. Learn how to calculate a loan due date or how many days you have been alive!

How To: Determine whether a given item in a list 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 119th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to determine if a particular item is in a list of items using two formulas: a ISNUMBER & MATCH function formula & a COUNTIF function formula.

How To: Use partial text matching 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 309th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to check to see if an item in first list is second another list, even if there is text before or after the item using the LOOKUP, SEARCH and ISNUMBER functions.

How To: Calculate days with Microsoft Excel's INT 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 300th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use date and time functions together. Specifically, you'll see how to use the INT function to calculate total days worked and the TEXT function to calculate total hours worked.

How To: Return every tenth value in an Excel spreadsheet

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 278th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the INDEX and ROWS functions to write a formula that will return each 10th value and place them all in a column.

How To: Create a series AA, AB ... ZZ 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 279th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how use the ADDRESS, LEFT, ROW, ROWS, and COLUMN functions to create the series AA, AB, ZZ with a formula.

How To: Count instances of a character in a 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 223rd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to count individual letters in a word. See how to count the occurrence of a given character in a text string.

How To: Count characters (including spaces) with LEN 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 221st installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the LEN function to count charters including spaces. Then see how to use the LEN, SUBSTITUTE, and TRIM function to count characters but not unwanted spaces.

How To: Count dates within a given month 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 220th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a formula with the SUMPRODUCT and EOMONTH functions that count the dates in each month for a given range of dates.

How To: Create a dynamic range with Excel's OFFSET 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 219th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a dynamic range with the OFFSET function so a macro to create a pivot table will work even when new records are added.

How To: Automatically create pivot tables in 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 218th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to an Excel 2007 table to create a dynamic range so a macro to create a pivot table will work even when new records are added.

How To: Create an Excel pivot table with 4-variable tabulation

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 216th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a pivot table (PivotTable) with 4-variable cross tabulation. Learn to use multiple fields in a pivot table with this free video tutorial.

How To: Extract a unique list from a huge 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, the 581st installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the advanced filter tool with criteria to extract a unique list of employees for each department from a huge data set with transactional records.

How To: Use an advanced filter to extract table data 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 244th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use advanced filtering to extract records from a database (table or list) based on 1 criterion (criteria) and place reesults on a new sheet worksheet.

How To: Create a dynamic break-even 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 576th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to add a point and a dynamic label to a break-even chart that marks the breakeven point using INDEX and MATCH functions. This point is dynamic and will change if data is changed.

How To: Group duplicates & extract unique records 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 577th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use SUMPRODUCT and the join symbol (&/ampersand) to group duplicates and then see how to use advanced filtering to extract a list of unique records.

How To: Summarize survey results with a pivot 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 168th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to summarize survey results with a pivot table (PivotTable) or a formula. See how to create a Pivot Table in Excel 2003 or 2007.

How To: Find & replace all instances of a word/number 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 160th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to find all the occurrences of a word, number, format or formula and then change or replace all of them! See how to use the Find and Replace feature in Excel with this free video tutorial.

How To: Find the last row or column used in an Excel data set

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 135th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a dynamic range when there are blanks in the data set. Learn also how to use an array formula to find the Last row or column used in a data set.

How To: Measure the spread of a data set with Excel's AVEDEV

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 97th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the AVEDEV function to measure the spread (variation) in a data set. Also see the STDEV function and learn how to measure whether a mean represents its data points fairly.

How To: Create a daily Gantt Chart in Microsoft 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 two-part Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 564th installment in their series of Excel magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a cell chart using conditional formatting with Logical TRUE FALSE formulas to create a Gantt Chart. Functions used include WORKDAY, AND, NOT, NETWORKDAY.

How To: Use conditional IF formulas in Microsoft Office 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 334th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the IF function. This video starts with IF function basics and then shows 12 different examples of how the IF function can be used in formulas. Also see how to use AND, OR, SUM, AVERAGE, STDEVP and VLOOKUP functions.

How To: Dynamically count unique words in a column 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 293rd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn two cell formulas and a named formula that will dynamically count unique words in a column. As you add new records, the count will automatically update. This is accomplished through use of Excel's MAX, ROW, OFFSET, SUMPRODUCT, ISTEXT and COUNTIF f...

How To: Make a gradebook based on percentage scores 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 194th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the SUM, VLOOKUP and ROUND functions to create a gradebook based on percentage scores that will calculate grade for you automatically. See also how the VLOOKUP and the percentage format can deliver the wrong grade when you dont use the ...

How To: Extract the three largest values from a list 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 162nd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to deal with duplicates with the MATCH function by using the COUNTIF function. This is accomplished with recourse to Excel's IF, OR, LARGE, ISERROR, MATCH, INDEX and COUNTIF functions.

How To: Do a switch backside flip on a skateboard

In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to perform a switch backside flip on a skateboard. Before attempting this trick, users should be able to do a switch flip. Begin by going into a switch flip position by covering the bolt with the right foot and cover the tail with the back foot. Ride the board at a moderate speed. As you ride, wind up your shoulder to the backside. Then pop the tail downwards and flick the board with your front foot. Keep your shoulder turning to allow the board to fo...

How To: Backflip on rollerblades

In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to perform back-flips on roller-blades. Before attempting this trick, users should be able to do a back-flip off the wall. For beginners, start by learning how to flip. Once you can flip, try flipping off the wall. Depending if you're right or left handed, run to the wall and push off with that foot. When you can wall back-flips, start trying to do them with roller-blades. Go on a ramp and launch off to the side. Once you can flip off the ramp, start ...