tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17887353Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:00:02 +0000Learn Excel from Bill Jelen with this daily 2 minute video podcast.http://www.mrexcel.com/podcast/learnexcelpodcast.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bill)Blogger735125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17887353.post-4871435977778844484Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:00:00 +00002008-08-29T09:00:02.083-04:00formulaPaste SpecialTim asked a question about writing a formula that he could copy across a row which would automatically grab successive values from down a column. (Basically doing a Transpose that is always updating). In Episode 835, I will show you my formula method and also discuss Kathy's easier suggestion that will work in some cases. This blog is the video podcast companion to the book, Learn Excel 97-2007 http://www.mrexcel.com/podcast/2008/08/episode-835-transposing-formulas.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bill)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17887353.post-8161762837662328692Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:00:00 +00002008-08-28T09:00:01.687-04:003-DIf you need to consolidate multiple worksheets as I discussed in Episode 832, you can skip consolidate and build a spearing or 3-D worksheet reference. Episode 834 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!http://www.mrexcel.com/podcast/2008/08/episode-834-3-d-spearing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bill)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17887353.post-5938099541070280495Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:00:00 +00002008-08-27T09:00:02.949-04:00WIIW2007Back in the good old Excel, you could click the upper "X" in the top right corner to close Excel. Well...that does not work anymore - both of the "X"s will close the workbook. In Episode 833, I will show you the quick way to close out of Excel. (Maybe you work at a dot-com, and your manager would be upset if you were doing spreadsheets instead of playing solitaire?) This blog is the video http://www.mrexcel.com/podcast/2008/08/episode-833-close-excel.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bill)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17887353.post-6341426029944851647Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:00:00 +00002008-08-26T09:00:01.494-04:00Summary3DconsolidateThe Consolidate command is versatile. In Episode 832, see how to use Consolidate to summarize similar data that occurs on multiple worksheets. 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!http://www.mrexcel.com/podcast/2008/08/episode-832-consolidate-sheets.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bill)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17887353.post-6851247052400714581Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:00:00 +00002008-08-25T09:00:01.356-04:00SummaryDataDuring a recent seminar, someone asked me to show the audience how to use the Consolidate command. I launched into the technique shown in Episode 831 - using consolidate to collapse a single range down to one line per customer. In tomorrow's podcast, we will look at alternate uses for consolidate. This blog is the video podcast companion to the book, Learn Excel 97-2007 from MrExcel. Download a http://www.mrexcel.com/podcast/2008/08/episode-831-consolidate.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bill)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17887353.post-4957563987621191634Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:30:00 +00002008-08-22T07:32:04.565-04:00formulaarray formulaContinuing the discussion from Episode 829, I show how to use the array of dates from a start date to an end date in order to perform a calculation on each date in the array. Episode 830 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!http://www.mrexcel.com/podcast/2008/08/episode-830-dates-ii.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bill)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17887353.post-6446049644238313630Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:00:00 +00002008-08-21T09:00:01.482-04:00formulasColumn A contains a start date. Column B contains an end date. You need to calculate how many days occur in each month of the program. In Episode 829, we learn how to coerce an array of dates from those two cells. 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!http://www.mrexcel.com/podcast/2008/08/episode-829-coercing-dates.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bill)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17887353.post-5336435816034728377Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:00:00 +00002008-08-20T09:00:01.540-04:00WIIWVBA2007So, you upgrade to Excel 2007 and your macros stop working. If you are incredibly lucky, it might be a situation where the macro would work, but you need to enable macros. Episode 828 shows where Microsoft hid Macro Security options and what the new words actually mean. This blog is the video podcast companion to the book, Learn Excel 97-2007 from MrExcel. Download a new two minute video every http://www.mrexcel.com/podcast/2008/08/episode-828-2007-macros.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bill)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17887353.post-8728397156922627937Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:00:00 +00002008-08-19T09:00:02.835-04:00SUMIFformulaThe reason that people create data like in podcast 826 is so that they can get totals by section to carry through to another report. However, if that other report used SUMIF, the problem would be solved. Episode 827 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 fromhttp://www.mrexcel.com/podcast/2008/08/episode-827-sumif.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bill)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17887353.post-5490351044219104571Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:00:00 +00002008-08-18T09:00:01.456-04:00headerDataData wranglingIt is frustrating when section headers contain data that applies to all records in that section. You really want to get that header data down onto every row in the section. Episode 826 shows you one method for doing this. 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!http://www.mrexcel.com/podcast/2008/08/episode-826-data-in-headers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bill)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17887353.post-6915432796391792357Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:00:00 +00002008-08-15T09:00:01.719-04:00ListDynamic RangeTablePivot TableJoe sends in a tip about converting your pivot table source data to a dynamic range. While this used to mean using the OFFSET function, now it simply means using Ctrl+L (in Excel 2003) or Ctrl+T (in Excel 2007). Episode 825 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 http://www.mrexcel.com/podcast/2008/08/episode-825-dynamic-pivot.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bill)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17887353.post-1274826033801983916Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:00:00 +00002008-08-14T09:00:04.129-04:00Pivot TableBrian from Bentonville provides the idea for this podcast. Episode 824 shows you much faster way to remove subtotals from all of the outer row fields in a pivot table. 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!http://www.mrexcel.com/podcast/2008/08/episode-824-pivot-subtotals.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bill)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17887353.post-7517069355158808600Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:00:00 +00002008-08-13T09:00:06.343-04:00AutoSumVBAMacroMark from New Hampshire notes that the macro recorder can not record the simple act of pressing the AutoSum button. In Episode 823, I show you the arcane workaround to solve 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!http://www.mrexcel.com/podcast/2008/08/episode-823-recording-autosum.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bill)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17887353.post-5892946879526473683Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:00:00 +00002008-08-12T11:41:17.516-04:00forecastingtrendlineIf you need to do some forecasting, you could struggle with LINEST, or you could simply add a trendline to a chart. Episode 822 will take a look at charting trendlines, including linear, exponential, and polynomial trendlines. 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 thehttp://www.mrexcel.com/podcast/2008/08/episode-822-exponential-trendlines.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bill)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17887353.post-7867169739859958881Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:00:00 +00002008-08-11T09:00:02.724-04:00histogramchartsErika from Arkansas asks how to create a dual histogram. These charts are great for comparing the skew of answers between two categories such as male vs female. Episode 821 shows you how to create this chart. 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!http://www.mrexcel.com/podcast/2008/08/episode-821-dual-histogram.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bill)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17887353.post-8358153269546104433Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:00:00 +00002008-08-08T09:00:17.122-04:00PullUDFBuilding on yesterday's podcast, life becomes considerably more complex if you need to use VLOOKUP to look into a different workbook based on a date. Episode 820 will show you why INDIRECT won't work and takes a look at how to use Harlan Grove's PULL function. Download the function from ftp://members.aol.com/hrlngrv/pull.zip This blog is the video podcast companion to the book, Learn Excel 97-http://www.mrexcel.com/podcast/2008/08/episode-820-pull.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bill)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17887353.post-4011936237249036025Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:00:00 +00002008-08-07T09:00:19.751-04:00INDIRECTYou have a workbook with one sheet for each day in the month. A summary worksheet in the workbook needs to grab data from each worksheet based on the date in column A. Episode 819 will show you how to use INDIRECT to solve this 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 http://www.mrexcel.com/podcast/2008/08/episode-819-indirect-lookup.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bill)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17887353.post-1012700002443277827Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:00:00 +00002008-08-06T09:00:28.067-04:00RibbonExcel 2007InterfaceIn our third Where Is it Wednesday, I will take a look at the changing face of the ribbon, including the point where the ribbon completely disappears. Episode 818 will show you how your co-workers ribbon may appear completely different than your ribbon. 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 http://www.mrexcel.com/podcast/2008/08/episode-818-wheres-ribbon.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bill)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17887353.post-8280400688326808875Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:00:00 +00002008-08-05T09:00:06.432-04:00Using Excel as a simple calculator in order to discover the annual savings that Libsyn.com provides with their unlimited bandwidth hosting option. Frankly, without Libsyn, this podcast would be cost prohibitive. If you have a spare two minutes, please join the Libsyn research study to quantify who is watching podcasts. Episode 817 will show you how. This blog is the video podcast companion to http://www.mrexcel.com/podcast/2008/08/episode-817-calculator-ipod.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bill)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17887353.post-5092139600220755644Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:00:00 +00002008-08-04T09:25:29.849-04:00FilterExcel 2007Say that you need to add up all of the red cells. This is easier in Excel 2007 using Filter by Color. Episode 816 will show you how to do this in Excel 2007 as well as a clever trick using find by format to do the same thing in Excel 2003. 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 http://www.mrexcel.com/podcast/2008/08/episode-816-total-red-cells.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bill)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17887353.post-3817472319878511633Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:00:00 +00002008-08-01T09:00:04.505-04:00Excel 2007chartingI was pretty happy with my tricky chart back in Episode 801, but couldn't find a way to be tricky in Excel 2007. Today, both Eddie and Ricardo send in brilliant ideas to get the sum of three stacked columns to appear on top of the stack of columns. Episode 815 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 http://www.mrexcel.com/podcast/2008/08/episode-815-801-chart-redux.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bill)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17887353.post-4716210926610653098Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:00:00 +00002008-07-31T09:00:04.540-04:00VBAAfter all of these episodes about using the macro recorder, Jonathan tried to record a macro to rename worksheets. The code fails sometimes and works other times. We will take a look at that code and understand how to generalize it to have it always work in Episode 814. This blog is the video podcast companion to the book, Learn Excel 97-2007 from MrExcel. Download a new two minute video every http://www.mrexcel.com/podcast/2008/07/episode-814-renaming-sheets.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bill)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17887353.post-7380802019495908339Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:00:00 +00002008-07-30T09:00:02.164-04:00VBAMacroEver wonder how MrExcel spends his free time? He watches the macro recorder write code before his eyes. In Episode 813, learn how to arrange the VBA window and the Excel window to watch which lines of code appear in response to actions in Excel. 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 http://www.mrexcel.com/podcast/2008/07/episode-813-code-genie.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bill)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17887353.post-6825558965281552875Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:00:00 +00002008-07-29T09:00:04.028-04:00VBAToday, a closer look at the macro from Episode 811. While it LOOKED like it worked, the recorded macro leaves a lot to be desired. Your totals will be wrong if you rely on the AutoSum button during macro recording. Episode 812 shows you the workaround. 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 http://www.mrexcel.com/podcast/2008/07/episode-812-recording-autosum-dont.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bill)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17887353.post-5214873130183633977Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:00:00 +00002008-07-28T09:00:05.382-04:00VBAPart 1 of 2: Many times, you have to use a clever mix of relative and absolute recording to get the macro to perform certain tasks. The goal today is to navigate to the bottom of a data set, add totals, and then move back to row 1. Episode 811 will show you how to handle the relative button, but watch out, as episode 812 will reveal yet another problem. This blog is the video podcast companionhttp://www.mrexcel.com/podcast/2008/07/episode-811-mixed-recording.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bill)