Learn Excel from Bill Jelen with this daily 2 minute video podcast.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Episode 887 - Keeping Pivot Formats

Nancy sends in a cool tip to solve some of the frustrations from Episode 875 -- Excel changing the column widths of a pivot table as you choose new values from a page field. In Episode 887, I will take a look at how to solve this problem.

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Thursday, October 30, 2008

Episode 879 - Icon Sets II

Excel 2007 offers a new visualization called an Icon Set. I usually hate this feature, because my numbers are right justified and the icons are left justified. However, in Episode 879, Joanna from Columbus, Ohio offers a cool tip to get the numbers and icons next to each other.

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Friday, October 24, 2008

Episode 875 - Conditional Pivot Formatting

Neville from Germany sends in a good suggestion for overcoming pivot formatting problems from Episode 865. By using conditional formatting on the underlying worksheet, Neville comes up with a way to make sure that the total rows are always highlighted in a pivot table. Episode 875 shows you how.

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Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Episode 868 - Clearing Input Cells

Donna from Colorado asks how to clear all of the input cells from a model. In today's Where Is It Wednesday Episode 868, we take a look at how to select only the numeric constants. Also - following up on 858 - Copy as Picture, 860 Resizing Header Logo, 863 Protect Sheet.

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Wednesday, October 01, 2008

Episode 858 - WIIW - Copy as Picture

In our Where Is it Wednesday podcast, we go looking for a command that most people never would have been able to find in Excel 2003! If you want to send a perfect copy of a formatted spreadsheet in an e-mail, you could use Snag-It or PrtScrn, but by holding down the shift key, you can find a hidden Copy as Picture command in Excel 2003. Episode 858 shows you how.

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Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Episode 802 - Mailbag

Episodes 790, 795, 797, and 798 generated a lot of e-mail. We will review different ways to create split cells, copy without borders, and type months and years. Episode 802 will show you how.

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Tuesday, July 08, 2008

Episode 797 - Filling 1 without formatting

Back in Episode 795, I asked about the best way to fill 1, 2, 3 without copying the formatting. 3 different approaches to solve this problem will appear in Episode 797. Even if you don't have this issue, you will learn some surprising things about the fill handle's behavior.

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Friday, June 27, 2008

Episode 790 - Split Cell

Kathy asks how to type numbers in a diagonally split cell. Episode 790 shows you how.

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Monday, May 19, 2008

Episode 761 - Toolbar Customization

In Episode 761, a look at three cool custom icons you can add to your toolbar in Excel 2007 or 2003. See how easy it is to use Select Current Region, Select Visible Cells, and Set Print Area.

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Thursday, May 15, 2008

Episode 759 - Border Color

There is a way to set the default border color that is used when you use the Borders dropdown. Episode 759 shows you how. Also, a look at the new Podcast DVD.

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Thursday, April 03, 2008

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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Thursday, March 27, 2008

Episode 724 - Custom Number

I used an old custom number formatting trick in yesterday's podcast. Today, we take a look at more possibilities using custom number formats. Episode 724 shows you how.

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Thursday, February 14, 2008

Episode 694 - Double Greenbar

As a follow-up to yesterday's podcast, we'll take a look at how to customize the formatting used in the Excel 2007 table formatting. Episode 694 shows you how.

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Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Episode 693 - Easy Greenbar

Excel 2007 offers easy greenbar formatting using the table functionality. While the table functionality offers amazing tools that we'll discuss on another day, today's Episode 693 looks at the few clicks necessary to format a range with alternating row formatting.

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