Links Failing - 1174

A workbook that was working perfectly in Excel 2003 starts failing in Excel 2007. For no apparent reason, the links will no longer update. Episode 1174 Episode 1174 show why and how to fix this problem forever.

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Turn Data - 1173

Paula asks how to take a range and turn it on its side.
Episode 1173 Episode 1173 shows you how.

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Picture Lookup - 1172 - Dueling Excel

Today's dueling Excel podcast shows how to do a picture lookup in Excel.
Episode 1172 Episode 1172 shows you how.

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Concatenated Lookup? 1171a - Learn Excel from MrExcel

Another look at Formula Speed in Excel: I have to do a lookup to find both a city and a day. Rather than using a concatenated lookup, two alternative formulas that perfom faster.
Episode 1171 Episode 1171 shows you how.

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Concatenated Lookup? 1171 - Learn Excel from MrExcel

Another look at Formula Speed in Excel: I have to do a lookup to find both a city and a day. Rather than using a concatenated lookup, two alternative formulas that perfom faster.
Episode 1170 Episode 1170 shows you how.

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Microsoft First? 1170 Learn Excel Podcast

Szilvia noted a strange anomoly in Excel 2007 pivot tables. Microsoft started appearing at the top of every customer list! Episode 1170 Episode 1170 takes a look at this mystery and the solution.

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Microsoft First? 1170 Learn Excel Podcast

Szilvia noted a strange anomoly in Excel 2007 pivot tables. Microsoft started appearing at the top of every customer list! Episode 1170 Episode 1170 takes a look at this mystery and the solution.

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Ahmed asks how to do a lookup that only looks at the text portion of the lookup value. Mike and Bill compare methods in this Dueling Excel Episode 1169.

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Concatenate to 3 Rows - 1168 - Learn Excel from MrExcel

Khader asks how to concatenate three cells so that they appear on three lines in a new cell. Episode 1168 shows you how.

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Coercing Number Array 1167 - Learn Excel Podcast

Building on Teo's question from yesterday, Bill expands the technique to generate an array of 50 sequential numbers instead of typing that whole range out. Episode 1167 shows you how.

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Sum Big 3 - 1166 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Podcast

Teo asks how to sum up the three largest values in a range. Episode 1166 shows you how.

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Lookup 3 Tables - 1165 - Dueling Excel Podcast

In today's dueling podcast, we need to look up a value in one of three different tables depending on the product selected. Mike and Bill show many ways to solve the problem in Episode 1165.

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Curved Arrows - 1164 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Podcast

Brent asked me how I managed to draw a curved arrow on a worksheet. Episode 1164 takes a look at how to customize the drawing tools to draw in curved arrows.


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Show a Month - 1163 - Learn Excel from MrExcel

Shaun has a large worksheet with 12 monthly reports on it. On a summary worksheet, he would like to show one particular month based on a dropdown. In episode 1163,discusses Paste Special Column Widths, Array Formulas, Match, and OFFSET.

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January Not = January - 1162 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Podcast

A simple MATCH formula is not working. In episode 1162, we wander through the Validation dialog, the Name Manager dialog, all trying to figure out why the MATCH formula is returning #N/A.

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VLOOKUP All Columns - 1161

Today's dueling podcast question is how to return the sum of all columns from a VLOOKUP. Mike and Bill show you various methods in episode 1161.

Sheet Tabs - 1160 - Learn Excel from MrExcel

Riham asks if there is any way to arrange the sheet tabs in two rows. While there is not, Episode 1160 shows various ways of dealing with the issue.

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PowerPivot Mashup - 1159 - Learn Excel From MrExcel

Using PowerPivot for Excel 2010 to mashup data on two different worksheets. Episode 1159 shows you how.

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Right Two

David asks how to use Text to Columns to grab the right-most two characters from a column. Episode 1158 shows you how.

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Easy-XL

Easy-XL adds 50 new data analysis features to Excel. Episode 1157 shows some of the cool features of Easy-XL.

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Named Lists

Ed asks how to assign a list of weekdays to a name in Excel. Episode 1156 shows you how.

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Thousands Millions

A question from Texas about setting up a chart in Excel. The goal is to show a mix of points that contain thousands and/or millions. While typing the K or M abbreviations might seem like a good way to get the table to appear, it is not a good way to have numbers that you can chart. Episode 1155 shows you how to solve the problem.

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Mapping Route - 1154 - Learn Excel From MrExcel Podcast

Take geographic data from Excel and plot it as a route in MapPoint. Episode 1154 shows you how.

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Weekly Report - 1153 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Video Podcast

Lotfy from Egypt asks how to create a weekly report from daily transactional data. Mike and Bill show you several different methods in Episode 1153.

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DoubleClick Fill Macro - 1152 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Video Podcast

Harold from Tulsa asked how to write a macro to simulate double-clicking the fill handle. Episode 1152 shows you how.

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Watermark - 1151 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Video Podcast

How can you add a watermark behind your spreadsheet? It is not obvious, but Episode 1151 shows you a couple of methods.

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Word DataBars - 1150 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Video Podcast

In Episode 1150, I wanted to add data bars to a series of words. Episode 1150 shows you how.

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Duel: Eval Text Formulas - 1149 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Video Podcast

Someone put a bunch of mathematical calculations in column A as text and we want to evaluate those formulas. Mike and Bill provide dueling ways to solve this problem in Episode 1149.

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Splitting a Word - 1148 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Video Podcast

Ram asks how to split a word into individual letters, and then count how many times each letter appears. Episode 1148 shows you how.

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Red Data Labels - 1147 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Podcast

Wang asks how to change part of one data label to be red. Unfortunately, the label is then broken. A macro should solve this, but it does not. Episode 1147 discusses this problem.

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Filling Blanks Uh-Oh - 1146 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Podcast

Mark asks how to fill blanks in with the data from above. Now...if you've watched this podcast, you've seen the trick for this, but Mark's data has something preventing Go To Special Blanks from working! So - another way to go. Episode 1146 shows you how.

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Splitting Names - 1145 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Podcast

Diane from Michigan wants to split a column of names into two columns. Episode 1145 shows two approaches and the problems with each.

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Duel: Unsorted VLOOKUP - 1144 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Podcast

Martin from Sweden sends in a question about doing a range VLOOKUP where the lookup table is not sorted. Mike and Bill duel it out in today's Episode 1144.

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Floating Quartile Chart - 1143 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Podcast

Michael from Kansas City asks how to build a floating quartile chart. Episode 1143 shows you how.

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[Color 53] - 1142 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Podcast

You can specify up to eight colors in the custom number format box. But wait...you can actually do all 56 colors from the Excel 2003 color palette! Episode 1142 shows you how.

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Divide Range by Range - 1141 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Podcast

Rob from Cambridge needs to divide nine cells by nine other cells and sum them up. In Episode 1141, we look at an array formula to solve this problem.

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Avoid a Loop - 1140 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Podcast

A cool way to streamline a VBA loop using SpecialCells. Episode 1140 shows you how.

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Duel: Portugal - 1139 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Podcast

A viewer from Portugal sends in a question about finding which row contains the match. Episode 1139 shows you a few ways to go!

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TRIM VLOOKUP table - 1138 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Podcast

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.

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Removing Hyperlinks - 1137 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Podcast

In Episode 1137, a cool way to remove all hyperlinks from a spreadsheet.

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AutoFilter Some - 1136 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Podcast

Mary from Louisiana passes along a cool tip for applying AutoFilter dropdowns to a subset of your records. Episode 1136 shows you how.

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Embedding Lookup - 1135 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Podcast

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.

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Duel: Index:Index - 1134 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Podcast

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.

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ADM Calculation - 1133 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Podcast

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.

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Filling Quarters - 1132 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Podcast

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?"


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Increase Chart Font Size - 1131 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Podcast

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.

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Sorta Indirect - 1130 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Podcast

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.

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First Week of Month - 1129 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Podcast

A dueling podcast...how to find the first week of the month. Mike and Bill show you various ways in Episode 1129.

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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.

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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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