April 22, 2024 - by Bill Jelen
Every day, your IT department sends you a file with the columns in the wrong sequence. It would take them two minutes to change the query, but they have a six-month backlog, so you are stuck rearranging the columns every day.
You can reorder the columns with a left-to-right sort.
Add a new row above the data. Type numbers to represent the correct sequence for the columns.
Excel 2024: Sort East, Central, and West Using a Custom List »
April 19, 2024 - by Bill Jelen
At my last day job, we had three sales regions: East, Central, and West. The company headquarters was in the East, and so the rule was that all reports were sorted with the East region first, then Central, then West. Well, there is no way to do this with a normal sort.
Excel 2024: Set Up Your Data for Data Analysis »
April 17, 2024 - by Bill Jelen
Make sure to follow these rules when you set up your data for sorting, subtotals, filtering and pivot tables.
Excel 2024: Place Pictures In Cell From Local Computer »
April 15, 2024 - by Bill Jelen
For the last 30 years, you could use Insert, Picture in Excel. The image was added to a special drawing layer that floated above the grid. In June of 2023, that legacy experience became known as Place Over Cells. The new experience is to Place In Cell.
February 2024
This is the 7th edition of MrExcel XL. Updates for 2024 include: Remove Filter Items Using Search Box, The Consolas Font Makes it Easy to Tell Zero from the Letter O, Display Online Pictures In a Cell Using a Formula, Place Pictures In Cell From Local Computer, Using Artificial Intelligence with Copilot for Excel, and more...
Programming PowerPoint with VBA
February 2022
This book assumes you already use PowerPoint and want to automate or enhance your presentations using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). This book includes VBA samples for working with layouts, themes & masters, creating tables, drawing objects, charting, animation effects and event programming.
Guerrilla Data Analysis Using Microsoft Excel - 3rd Edition
May 2022
Two of the leading Excel channels on YouTube join forces to combat bad data. This book includes step-by-step examples and case studies that teach users the many power tricks for analyzing data in Excel. These are tips honed by Bill Jelen, "MrExcel," and Oz do Soleil during their careers run as financial analysts.
Microsoft Excel Pivot Table Data Crunching (Office 2021 and Microsoft 365)
December 2021
Use Microsoft 365 Excel and Excel 2021 pivot tables and pivot charts to produce powerful, dynamic reports in minutes: take control of your data and your business!