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Thursday, October 22, 2009

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.

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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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

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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Tuesday, October 20, 2009

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.

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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Friday, October 17, 2008

Episode 870 - GetPivotData

You could solve yesterday's podcast using the often-cursed-at, but seldom-understood GETPIVOTDATA function. In Episode 870, how to use GETPIVOTDATA to return the grand total and also using =IF(ISBLANK to clean up stray results below the pivot table.

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Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Episode 807 - GetPivotData

Dan from Philly checks in with some good uses for GetPivotData - the function that most people love to hate. If you've ever been annoyed when Excel starts using this function, take a step back and see the actual uses for the function. Episode 807 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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Monday, November 06, 2006

Episode 377 - GetPivotData Function

In Excel 2002+, try to create a formula next to your pivot table. When you copy this formula down to other cells, the formula keeps pointing at the original cells! Is this a bug? No, it's a feature! Well, whatever it is, in Episode 377 I will show you how to stop the functionality so that things continue to work like they did back in Excel 2000.

This blog is the video podcast companion to the book, Learn Excel from MrExcel. Download a new two minute video every workday to learn one of the 277 tips from the book!

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