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Monday, September 07, 2009

VBA Sheet Name - 1096 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Podcast

Your recorded macros might not work if someone renames a worksheet. Rather than use the worksheet name, use the code name for the worksheet. This name can never be changed and is more reliable. Episode 1096 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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Friday, September 19, 2008

Episode 850 - Copy Worksheet 750

I've shown how to make copies of a worksheet within a workbook before, but in today's podcast, someone asks if you can drag a worksheet to a new workbook. Episode 850 shows you how. Also - in honor of the 750th podcast episode, a new contest for Saturday.

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Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Episode 803 - Move or Copy Sheet

In our first Where's it Wednesday segment, I tried to figure out where the popular Move or Copy Sheet command is hidden in Excel 2007. Check out the cool new Wednesday theme from George Wood in Episode 803!

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Thursday, June 26, 2008

Episode 789 - Unhide Worksheets II

Rather than use a custom view, Episode 789 shows how to create a 3-line macro to unhide all worksheets.

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Tuesday, May 22, 2007

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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Friday, January 12, 2007

Episode 421 - Recent Files

This netcast has a couple of tips from Tools - Options - General. First, learn how to control the number of worksheets in your new workbooks. Second, learn how to increase the number of files in your recently used file list. Plus a sneak peak in Episode 421 of how the Recently Used File List is improved in Excel 2007.

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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Monday, December 11, 2006

Episode 400 - OffSheet Precedents

It is a real pain to try to trace precedents that are on other worksheets or in other workbooks. Episode 400 shows some formula auditing tricks, including a trick to see all of the precedents on other worksheets. This is our 300th episode!

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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Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Episode 379 - Offsheet Validation

Yesterday's netcast showed how to set up data validation to create a dropdown for a cell. The one problem is that someone might inadvertently delete a row from your list of values. Technically, Microsoft says that the validation list can not be on another worksheet, but Episode 379 shows you the workaround.

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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Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Episode 354 - Page 3 of 12

Are you frustrated that as you print each worksheet in a workbook, the page numbers constantly start over at page 1? Use Group mode to have your page numbers appear correctly when printing many sheets. Episode 354 shows you how.

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Friday, September 15, 2006

Episode 341 - Printing Row Numbers

How to print your worksheet with the row and column headings visible. Episode 341 shows you how to make your printout look just like your Excel screen, plus two reasons why you would want to do this. Learn how to print formulas instead of values and how to print your cell comments at the bottom of the sheet.

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