MrExcel's Learn Excel #950 - Sponsored by MrExcel.com Store

A big car company offered a boat load of money to put an annoying ad in this podcast for the next two months. Rather than sell out, a reminder that the podcast is sponsored by the MrExcel.com store. Then; a fast way to group age data using a pivot table. Episode #950 shows you how.

This video is the 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!

MrExcel's Learn Excel #949 - Grouping Ages

Steve asks how to group records into age ranges. In Episode 949, I show how to use the range version of VLOOKUP to solve this problem.

This video is the 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!

Episode 912 - Pivot Rates

Jason from Texas asks about formatting percentages in a pivot table. I thought this would be an easy question, but Jason wants to format the grouped percentages in the row area of the pivot table. Episode 912 talks about grouping in a pivot table but doesn't come up with a good solution to the problem.

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!

Episode 849 - Remove Group

After adding subtotals by Customer, Excel adds three group and outline buttons. Most people use the #2 and #3 buttons but rarely use the #1 button. Could you simply remove the #1 button? Podcast 849 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!

Episode 723 - PivotText

After summarizing data in a pivot table, you want to replace the numbers with a simple Yes/No text. Yes if they met the condition, No if they did not.

Episode 723 will show the rather convoluted process. In the process of creating the pivot table, you will see data grouping, calculated fields, table options, and then a bizarre conditional number format.

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!

Episode 709 - Pivot Dates

Excel offers amazing tools to group daily dates to months, quarters, years, or weeks. Episode 709 will show 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!

Episode 513 - Group Mode

Joe writes in with a faster way to get an entire workbook into Group mode. This is a fast way to make changes to all of the sheets in a workbook. Episode 513 shows you how.

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Episode 495 - Grouping by Hour

In yesterday’s podcast, I proposed a formula to solve Jonathan’s dilemma of analyzing information by hourly buckets. An easier solution is to use the Group by Hour feature in a pivot table. Episode 495 shows you how.

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Episode 482 - Hide by Grouping

Today, Scott W sends in a better way to hide and unhide columns. After watching podcast 449, Scott sent in a suggestion that is much better than the typical Format Column Hide and Format Column Unhide methods. Episode 482 shows you how.

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Episode 358 - Top Five

In episode 358, a great new trick from Adam in the UK to solve the problem from Episode 273. I had previously lamented that when you use the Top 10 AutoShow feature of a pivot table, there is no good way to show one line with all of the other customers. Adam's trick shows how to use the Group feature to solve the problem. Episode 358 shows you how.

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