tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-178873532009-11-06T09:14:02.232-05:00Learn Excel from Bill Jelen with this daily 2 minute video podcast.Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16174998054188895538noreply@blogger.comBlogger1042125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17887353.post-57626819948283298212009-11-06T09:00:00.002-05:002009-11-06T09:00:02.758-05:00

A viewer from Portugal sends in a question about finding which row contains the match. Episode 1139 shows you a few ways to go!This blog is the video podcast companion to the book, Learn Excel 97-2007 from MrExcel. Download a new two minute video every workday to learn one of the 377 tips from the book!

Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16174998054188895538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17887353.post-35203512494728506872009-11-05T09:00:00.007-05:002009-11-06T08:47:16.551-05:00

Rod from Cincinati asks how to solve the problem of trailing spaces in the lookup table. I had never tried it before, but you can apply a TRIM to the entire lookup table. Episode 1138 shows you how.This blog is the video podcast companion to the book, Learn Excel 97-2007 from MrExcel. Download a new two minute video every workday to learn one of the 377 tips from the book!

Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16174998054188895538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17887353.post-64326535619139464372009-11-04T09:00:00.001-05:002009-11-04T09:00:00.259-05:00

In Episode 1137, a cool way to remove all hyperlinks from a spreadsheet.This blog is the video podcast companion to the book, Learn Excel 97-2007 from MrExcel. Download a new two minute video every workday to learn one of the 377 tips from the book!

Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16174998054188895538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17887353.post-10138862099609993622009-11-03T09:00:00.000-05:002009-11-03T09:00:08.189-05:00

Mary from Louisiana passes along a cool tip for applying AutoFilter dropdowns to a subset of your records. Episode 1136 shows you how.This blog is the video podcast companion to the book, Learn Excel 97-2007 from MrExcel. Download a new two minute video every workday to learn one of the 377 tips from the book!

Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16174998054188895538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17887353.post-80642634567523251992009-11-02T09:00:00.002-05:002009-11-02T09:00:22.656-05:00

Nick asks how to do a pretty lengthy bonus calculation. It might be too complex for the Excel 2003 nested IF limit, so I decided to use the range version of VLOOKUP. But...as a twist, I embed the table right in the formula. Episode 1135 shows you how.This blog is the video podcast companion to the book, Learn Excel 97-2007 from MrExcel. Download a new two minute video every workday to learn one

Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16174998054188895538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17887353.post-87916148143812120032009-10-30T09:00:00.003-04:002009-10-30T09:00:04.093-04:00

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.This blog is the video podcast companion to the book, Learn Excel 97-2007 from MrExcel. Download a new two minute video every workday to learn one of the 377

Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16174998054188895538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17887353.post-71848719609684101942009-10-29T09:00:00.002-04:002009-10-29T09:00:10.253-04:00

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.This blog is the video podcast companion to the book, Learn Excel 97-2007 from

Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16174998054188895538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17887353.post-51713049227008514232009-10-28T09:00:00.003-04:002009-10-28T09:00:02.761-04:00

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?"This blog is the video podcast companion to the book, Learn Excel 97-2007 from MrExcel. Download a new two minute video every workday to learn one of the 377 tips from the book!

Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16174998054188895538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17887353.post-27942842254177330992009-10-27T09:00:00.003-04:002009-10-27T09:00:15.421-04:00

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.This blog is the video podcast companion to the book, Learn Excel 97-2007 from MrExcel. Download a new two minute video every workday to learn one of the 377 tips from the book!

Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16174998054188895538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17887353.post-33579951547335307802009-10-26T09:00:00.003-04:002009-10-26T09:02:20.213-04:00

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.This blog is the video podcast companion to the book, Learn Excel 97-2007 from MrExcel. Download a new two minute video every workday to learn one of the 377 tips from

Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16174998054188895538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17887353.post-43300684490323957742009-10-23T09:00:00.005-04:002009-10-23T13:41:49.682-04:00

A dueling podcast...how to find the first week of the month. Mike and Bill show you various ways in Episode 1129.This blog is the video podcast companion to the book, Learn Excel 97-2007 from MrExcel. Download a new two minute video every workday to learn one of the 377 tips from the book!

Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16174998054188895538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17887353.post-54395633111998008512009-10-22T09:00:00.003-04:002009-10-23T12:44:49.418-04:00

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.This blog is the video podcast companion to the book, Learn Excel 97-2007 from MrExcel. Download a new two minute video every workday to learn one of the 377 tips from the book!

Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16174998054188895538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17887353.post-57225332615181066942009-10-21T09:00:00.003-04:002009-10-23T12:37:57.246-04:00

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.This blog is the video podcast companion to the book, Learn Excel 97-2007 from MrExcel. Download a new two minute video every workday to learn one of the 377 tips from the book!

Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16174998054188895538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17887353.post-30487840219415949652009-10-20T09:00:00.002-04:002009-10-23T12:23:54.738-04:00

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.This blog is the video podcast companion to the book, Learn Excel 97-2007 from MrExcel. Download a new two minute video every workday to learn one of the 377 tips from the book!

Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16174998054188895538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17887353.post-11272500067002968242009-10-19T09:00:00.002-04:002009-10-19T09:00:04.633-04:00

Don't use HLOOKUP...just turn the table back to a vertical table using the two methods shown in Episode 1125.This blog is the video podcast companion to the book, Learn Excel 97-2007 from MrExcel. Download a new two minute video every workday to learn one of the 377 tips from the book!

Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16174998054188895538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17887353.post-25670554569173559292009-10-16T09:00:00.005-04:002009-10-16T09:00:08.353-04:00

Mike & Bill take a look at various ways to do a 2-way lookup in this dueling Excel Episode 1124.This blog is the video podcast companion to the book, Learn Excel 97-2007 from MrExcel. Download a new two minute video every workday to learn one of the 377 tips from the book!

Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16174998054188895538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17887353.post-23585942669410863252009-10-15T09:00:00.003-04:002009-10-15T09:00:09.227-04:00

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.This blog is the video podcast companion to the book, Learn Excel 97-2007 from MrExcel. Download a new two minute video every workday to learn one of the 377 tips from the book!

Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16174998054188895538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17887353.post-18547916697673142712009-10-14T09:00:00.002-04:002009-10-14T09:00:07.939-04:00

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.This blog is the video podcast companion to the book, Learn Excel 97-2007 from MrExcel. Download a new two minute video every workday to learn one of the 377 tips from the book!

Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16174998054188895538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17887353.post-85681473248009914132009-10-13T09:00:00.001-04:002009-10-13T09:00:07.721-04:00

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.This blog is the video podcast companion to the book, Learn Excel 97-2007 from MrExcel. Download a new two minute video every workday to learn one of the 377 tips from the book!

Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16174998054188895538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17887353.post-32472364817872069892009-10-12T09:00:00.002-04:002009-10-12T09:00:08.598-04:00

VLOOKUP is my favorite function in Excel. In Episode 1120, we will take a look at the basics of VLOOKUP.This blog is the video podcast companion to the book, Learn Excel 97-2007 from MrExcel. Download a new two minute video every workday to learn one of the 377 tips from the book!

Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16174998054188895538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17887353.post-63106651110814704602009-10-09T09:00:00.003-04:002009-10-09T09:00:00.209-04:00

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.This blog is the video podcast companion to the book, Learn Excel 97-2007 from MrExcel. Download a new two minute video every workday to learn one of the 377 tips from the book!

Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16174998054188895538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17887353.post-39440554124834678232009-10-08T09:00:00.001-04:002009-10-08T09:00:00.239-04:00

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.This blog is the video podcast companion to the book, Learn Excel 97-2007 from MrExcel. Download a new two minute video every workday to learn one of the 377 tips from the book!

Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16174998054188895538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17887353.post-15256210502904576512009-10-07T09:00:00.001-04:002009-10-07T09:00:09.042-04:00

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.This blog is the video podcast companion to the book, Learn Excel 97-2007 from MrExcel. Download a new two minute video every workday to learn one of the 377 tips from the book!

Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16174998054188895538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17887353.post-69465270193921938822009-10-06T09:00:00.002-04:002009-10-06T09:00:03.386-04:00

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.This blog is the video podcast companion to the book, Learn Excel 97-2007 from MrExcel. Download a new two minute video every workday to learn one of the 377 tips from the book!

Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16174998054188895538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17887353.post-52297566525639797982009-10-05T09:00:00.003-04:002009-10-05T09:00:09.328-04:00

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.This blog is the video podcast companion to the book, Learn Excel 97-2007 from MrExcel. Download a new two minute video every workday to learn one of the 377 tips from the book!

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