Episode 748 - Pivoting Text

Terry called in with a question where she wanted to use a pivot table to show text fields from a database. While this question initially threw me for a loop, we did end up with a workable pivot table that showed off text. Episode 748 shows you how.

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Episode 747 - Who is Largest

Lucy sends in a question. She has built a table of sales by rep by day. She used the MAX and MIN function to find the largest and smallest value. However, her boss then wants her to identify who had the largest and smallest value. This requires the use of INDEX, MATCH, and a couple of hidden columns. Episode 747 will show you how.

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Episode 746 - Obscuring Excel

Jon has designed a worksheet in Excel that he wants others to use. However, he does not want them to realize they are using Excel. How can he obscure the fact that we are in Excel? Episode 746 will show you how.

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Episode 745 - Create an AddIn

If you want the macro from Episode 744 to always be available, you can save it as an add-in and install the add-in. Episode 745 will show you how.

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Episode 744 - Auto-Increment

Continuing the information from podcasts 742 and 743, I record a simple macro today to open the Invoice.xlt file and then add a couple lines of code to update the invoice number and the date. Episode 744 shows you how.

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Episode 743 - Save as Template

Continuing the series from podcast 742, once you've downloaded and customized the invoice from Office Online, learn how to save it as a template and add it to the New Workbook task pane. Episode 743 shows you how.

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Episode 742 - Invoice Worksheet

Rather than create an invoice worksheet from scratch, download a free one from Office Online. Episode 742 will show you how.

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Episode 741 - Compare Columns

Daniel from Quebec sends in a better way to compare columns using GoTo Special Column Differences. Episode 741 shows you how.

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Episode 740 - Insert Worksheets II

Jerry from Georgia sends in a great alternate solution to podcast 730, inserting one worksheet per customer. Gerry uses the Show Pages feature of pivot tables. Episode 740 shows you how.

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Episode 739 - Menu to Ribbon

Two tips for finding an Excel 2003 command on the Excel 2007 ribbon. One is to use the Customize QAT dialog. Pam sends in a cool website from Microsoft that will help you to find the command. The website is here: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA101491511033.aspx. Episode 739 shows both methods.

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Episode 738 - Unique SN per CN

Matthew sends in a cool technique today to find a unique list of serial numbers for every model from a database. Matthew's trick uses about five tricks that you probably rarely use. Episode 738 walks you through Matthew's technique. You will see pivot table calculated fields, paste values, replace, and deleting all zero cells.

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Episode 737 - Excel 2007 Charts

Lorin asks if there is anything new in Excel 2007 charts. While Microsoft rewrote the charting engine in Office 2007, you still have the same basic chart types. However, there are new data visualization tools in conditional formatting that allow you to add bar charts to every cell. Episode 737 discusses these new features.

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Episode 736 - Index Match

Jon has a follow-up question about his baseball spreadsheet. After calculating the win and loss streaks, he would like to find the longest streak, including the start and end dates. This seemingly simple question requires two completely useless functions. Once these functions are used in conjunction, they become very powerful. Episode 736 shows you how.

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Episode 735 - Win Streak

Jon asks how to calculate a winning or losing streak from baseball data. Episode 735 will show you how to build the formulas to calculate a win streak. Also, how to build a column showing Home or Away based on finding an @ sign in the opponent column.

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Episode 734 - Bingo No Duplicates

If you want to randomly choose from a list and never have duplicates, you can use the method discussed in this podcast. Episode 734 shows you how.

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Episode 733 - Bingo Draw

Hamilton asks how to generate a column of bingo numbers, one at a time. In Episode 733, a tiny macro will add random numbers down column A.

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Episode 732 - Dates from Text to Columns

Jonathan notices a problem when he uses the Text to Columns wizard. Baseball scores such as 4-3 are converted to dates. In Episode 732, we'll take a look at how to keep those scores from being converted.

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Episode 731 - Copying Subtotals Only

Kerry asks: after adding automatic subtotals, how can you copy only the subtotal rows? Episode 731 will show you how.

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Episode 730 - Insert Worksheets

J.B. needs to create a new worksheet for every customer listed on the summary worksheet. He asks if there is an Insert Worksheets command. While there isn't, you can create one with a few lines of VBA code. Episode 730 shows you how.

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Episode 729 - 2003 Icon Sets

Chris from Scotts sends in a cool trick today...how to set up an icon set in Excel 2003. Episode 729 takes a look at how to set up this trick.

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Episode 728 - Table Formulas

Excel 2007's table functionality is cool, but viewer Jim is wondering why Excel is changing his formulas. In Episode 728, we will take a look at how to control this behavior,

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Episode 727 - Building Formulas with Text

Bill has a worksheet where he's building text references and then hopes to evaluate the resulting SUM function. Instead, I suggest using INDIRECT to add up the three individual cells. Episode 727 shows you how.

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