Episode 835 - Transposing Formulas

Tim asked a question about writing a formula that he could copy across a row which would automatically grab successive values from down a column. (Basically doing a Transpose that is always updating). In Episode 835, I will show you my formula method and also discuss Kathy's easier suggestion that will work in some cases.

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Episode 834 - 3-D Spearing

If you need to consolidate multiple worksheets as I discussed in Episode 832, you can skip consolidate and build a spearing or 3-D worksheet reference. Episode 834 shows you how.

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Episode 833 - Close Excel

Back in the good old Excel, you could click the upper "X" in the top right corner to close Excel. Well...that does not work anymore - both of the "X"s will close the workbook. In Episode 833, I will show you the quick way to close out of Excel. (Maybe you work at a dot-com, and your manager would be upset if you were doing spreadsheets instead of playing solitaire?)

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Episode 832 - Consolidate Sheets

The Consolidate command is versatile. In Episode 832, see how to use Consolidate to summarize similar data that occurs on multiple worksheets.

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Episode 831 - Consolidate

During a recent seminar, someone asked me to show the audience how to use the Consolidate command. I launched into the technique shown in Episode 831 - using consolidate to collapse a single range down to one line per customer. In tomorrow's podcast, we will look at alternate uses for consolidate.

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Episode 830 - Dates II

Continuing the discussion from Episode 829, I show how to use the array of dates from a start date to an end date in order to perform a calculation on each date in the array. Episode 830 shows you how.

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Episode 829 - Coercing Dates

Column A contains a start date. Column B contains an end date. You need to calculate how many days occur in each month of the program. In Episode 829, we learn how to coerce an array of dates from those two cells.

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Episode 828 - 2007 Macros

So, you upgrade to Excel 2007 and your macros stop working. If you are incredibly lucky, it might be a situation where the macro would work, but you need to enable macros. Episode 828 shows where Microsoft hid Macro Security options and what the new words actually mean.

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Episode 827 - SUMIF

The reason that people create data like in podcast 826 is so that they can get totals by section to carry through to another report. However, if that other report used SUMIF, the problem would be solved. Episode 827 shows you how.

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Episode 826 - Data in Headers

It is frustrating when section headers contain data that applies to all records in that section. You really want to get that header data down onto every row in the section. Episode 826 shows you one method for doing this.

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Episode 825 - Dynamic Pivot

Joe sends in a tip about converting your pivot table source data to a dynamic range. While this used to mean using the OFFSET function, now it simply means using Ctrl+L (in Excel 2003) or Ctrl+T (in Excel 2007). Episode 825 shows you how.

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Episode 824 - Pivot Subtotals

Brian from Bentonville provides the idea for this podcast. Episode 824 shows you much faster way to remove subtotals from all of the outer row fields in a pivot table.

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Episode 823 - Recording AutoSum

Mark from New Hampshire notes that the macro recorder can not record the simple act of pressing the AutoSum button. In Episode 823, I show you the arcane workaround to solve the problem.

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Episode 822 - Exponential Trendlines

If you need to do some forecasting, you could struggle with LINEST, or you could simply add a trendline to a chart. Episode 822 will take a look at charting trendlines, including linear, exponential, and polynomial trendlines.

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Episode 821 - Dual Histogram

Erika from Arkansas asks how to create a dual histogram. These charts are great for comparing the skew of answers between two categories such as male vs female. Episode 821 shows you how to create this chart.

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Episode 820 - PULL

Building on yesterday's podcast, life becomes considerably more complex if you need to use VLOOKUP to look into a different workbook based on a date. Episode 820 will show you why INDIRECT won't work and takes a look at how to use Harlan Grove's PULL function. Download the function from ftp://members.aol.com/hrlngrv/pull.zip

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Episode 819 - Indirect Lookup

You have a workbook with one sheet for each day in the month. A summary worksheet in the workbook needs to grab data from each worksheet based on the date in column A. Episode 819 will show you how to use INDIRECT to solve this problem.

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Episode 818 - Where's the Ribbon?

In our third Where Is it Wednesday, I will take a look at the changing face of the ribbon, including the point where the ribbon completely disappears. Episode 818 will show you how your co-workers ribbon may appear completely different than your ribbon.

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Episode 817 - Calculator iPod

Using Excel as a simple calculator in order to discover the annual savings that Libsyn.com provides with their unlimited bandwidth hosting option. Frankly, without Libsyn, this podcast would be cost prohibitive. If you have a spare two minutes, please join the Libsyn research study to quantify who is watching podcasts. Episode 817 will show you how.

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Episode 816 - Total Red Cells

Say that you need to add up all of the red cells. This is easier in Excel 2007 using Filter by Color. Episode 816 will show you how to do this in Excel 2007 as well as a clever trick using find by format to do the same thing in Excel 2003.

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Episode 815 - 801 Chart Redux

I was pretty happy with my tricky chart back in Episode 801, but couldn't find a way to be tricky in Excel 2007. Today, both Eddie and Ricardo send in brilliant ideas to get the sum of three stacked columns to appear on top of the stack of columns. Episode 815 shows you how.

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