Duel: Index:Index - 1134 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Podcast

Today's Dueling Excel Podcast is a question sent in by Hassan. Hassan wants to enter a name and a through-month and then add up that person's sales from January through the selected month. Mike and Bill show various methods in Episode 1134.

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ADM Calculation - 1133 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Podcast

Patricia called the other day with a problem which will be familiar to everyone who works in a public school district. The state pays the school for every student who is enrolled on the magic date of October 1. Given a start date and end date, how can you tell if the date is in that range? Episode 1133 shows you how.

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Filling Quarters - 1132 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Podcast

The Excel fill handle is really cool with quarters. But wait....it can not do quarters and years. But wait...it can do them but in a hideous format. Episode 1132 asks - "Does anyone have a better way?"


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Increase Chart Font Size - 1131 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Podcast

Roger from Columbus Indiana passes along a cool trick for formatting all of the text in a chart at once. Episode 1131 shows you how.

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Sorta Indirect - 1130 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Podcast

Greg wants to set up dynamic validation, but he has a wrinkle....Once someone chooses from the first data set, he needs to append the word My before that answer to get to the name of the second data set. Episode 1130 shows you how.

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First Week of Month - 1129 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Podcast

A dueling podcast...how to find the first week of the month. Mike and Bill show you various ways in Episode 1129.

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Love GetPivotData? - 1128 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Podcast

The last in my series of podcasts about GetPivotData. Today, we see how to use GetPivotData to overcome all the bad stuff in a pivot table. Episode 1128 shows you how.

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Understand GetPivotData - 1127 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Podcast

Rather than turn off the evil GetPivotData like we did yesterday, how about trying to understand what GetPivotData actually does? Episode 1127 shows you how.

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Hate GetPivotData - 1126 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Podcast

99% of the people in my seminars hate GetPivotData. Most people outside of Microsoft hate GetPivotData. Today, in Episode 1126, as we've done before, we will take a look at how to turn off GetPivotData.

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HLOOKUP Week!? - 1125 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Podcast

Don't use HLOOKUP...just turn the table back to a vertical table using the two methods shown in Episode 1125.

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Duel: 2-Way Lookup - 1124 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Podcast

Mike & Bill take a look at various ways to do a 2-way lookup in this dueling Excel Episode 1124.

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Many VLOOKUP Columns - 1123 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Podcast

VLOOKUP week continues.... Today, you have to lookup an account number and return the results from four columns in the lookup table. Episode 1123 shows you four possible solutions.

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ALL #N/A's - 1122 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Podcast

What happens when you enter the perfect VLOOKUP formula and everything returns #N/A? Episode 1122 shows you some of the sneaky reasons why VLOOKUPs fail and what to do about it.

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VLOOKUP #N/A - 1121 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Podcast

The most common error from your VLOOKUP formula is the #N/A error. Episode 1121 looks at how to find the #N/A and then three ways of adding those new values to your lookup table.

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VLOOKUP 101 - 1120 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Podcast

VLOOKUP is my favorite function in Excel. In Episode 1120, we will take a look at the basics of VLOOKUP.

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Duel: Rejoin WordWrapped Cells - 1119 - Learn Excel MrExcel Podcast

External data pasted into Excel shows up with 1 row in columns A & C, but multiple rows in B. Today's dueling Excel Episode 1119 shows how to deal with this data.


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No Save Until Complete - 1118 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Podcast

Roy asks how to prevent a workbook from being saved until the workbook is complete. Episode 1118 will show you the four lines of VBA needed to make this happen.

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WIIW: Natural Language Formulas - 1117 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Podcast

Michael wonders what happened to the old Excel 2003 Natural Language Formulas feature. It is out of Excel 2007, but replaced with something similar. Episode 1117 shows you now.

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Rounding 0.3333 - 1116 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Podcast

Michael asks why when you add up three cells with 1/3, you don't get 0.99? Episode 1116 takes a look at how to solve this.

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Opening Balance VLOOKUP - 1115 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Podcast

Brett from Australia asks how to format a date to include the words Opening Balance so that he can do a VLOOKUP into a report. The format is easy, the VLOOKUP is tougher. Episode 1115 shows you how.

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Duel: Bill Counter - 1114 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Podcast

You need $273 in cash. How many of each currency amount will you need? This Dueling Episode 1114 shows a few different ways to go.

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Years Months Days - 1113 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Podcast

Med asks how to calculate Years, Months, Days between two dates. Episode 1113 discusses the elusive DATEDIF function.

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