| Similar Articles |
|---|
 |
PC Magazine
March 16, 2004
Neil J. Rubenking |
Count Unique Names in Excel I have a list of some 900,000 names in an Excel worksheet. Most of the names have duplicates. How can I count the number of names without counting duplicate entries?   |
PC Magazine
January 20, 2004
Neil J. Rubenking |
Better Averages Without Extremes A better way to calculate the average of a range of cells in a spreadsheet while omitting one or more of the highest or lowest values. |
PC Magazine
June 22, 2004
Neil J. Rubenking |
Get the Last Nonblank Cell in An Excel Range Creating an array formula for this task. |
PC Magazine
November 11, 2003
Neil J. Rubenking |
Fixing an Excel Formula I have created several Excel 2000 worksheets that use the VLOOKUP formula to get information from one central worksheet. Now I need to add columns to the root worksheet. |
PC Magazine
December 30, 2003
Neil J. Rubenking |
The Ultimate Sum Formula in Excel Here's how to set up a formula that will automatically adapt and sum all the cells above it, wherever it is placed. |
PC Magazine
September 16, 2003
Helen Bradley |
15 Great Excel Tips Microsoft Excel is jam-packed with functions that perform a range of handy calculations and tests. We take a look at 15 Excel functions you may not know about and show you some clever ways to put them to work on your data. |
PC Magazine
August 17, 2004 |
Use a Formula as a Named Range in Excel Regarding the article "The Ultimate Sum Formula in Excel"... |
PC Magazine
September 4, 2007
Helen Bradley |
Making Choices in Excel Vlookups can easily return data from even very large tables. |
PC Magazine
December 14, 2004
Neil J. Rubenking |
Advanced Ranking in Excel Q: I have columns of students, band instruments, and tryout scores... A: This seemingly knotty problem can be solved with a single formula... |
PC Magazine
October 14, 2003
Neil J. Rubenking |
Absolute and Relative References in Excel Avoid error messages in your formulas by using the $ character to indicate cell references that should never change. |
PC Magazine
March 16, 2005
Helen Bradley |
Conditional Formatting in Excel Make the information in your spreadsheets more accessible with formatting based on certain conditions. |
PC World
October 11, 2002
John Walkenbach |
Who Knew Excel Could Do That? Ten Top Tips Make your spreadsheets work harder and give them a polished look with these nifty tricks. |
PC Magazine
August 12, 2008
Neil J. Rubenking |
Checksum for a Spreadsheet Create a cell in Excel that does the equivalent of a "hash" or sum of the entire active workbook. |
PC Magazine
August 1, 2007
Neil Rubenking |
Excel Formulas That Read Your Mind Understanding #REF! error markers in Excel formulas. |
PC Magazine
April 26, 2005
Neil J. Rubenking |
Another Way to Get Last Nonblank Cell Tips for getting the most out of Microsoft Excel. |
PC Magazine
May 4, 2004
Neil J. Rubenking |
Sorting Text in Excel Reordering words is more complicated than numbers. Here's a procedure that works. |
PC Magazine
May 18, 2004
Neil J. Rubenking |
Another Way to Highlight Formulas Expert advice on highlighting cells containing formulas in Excel. |
CFO
April 15, 2012
Bill Jelen |
A Global Shift (of Decimals) How to move the decimal point in an array of Excel data. |
PC Magazine
April 4, 2007 |
Making Excel Remember More Data Using excel to find linking values of data. |
PC Magazine
September 27, 2006 |
Force Unique Numbers in Excel Keep duplicate numbers from being inserted into a column in Microsoft Excel. |
PC Magazine
December 1, 2009
Neil J. Rubenking |
Conditional Formatting in Excel Excel's conditional formatting can make spreadsheets a lot easier to interpret - -changing the text color in a cell. |
Macworld
March 2001
James Bradbury |
Track Your Progress with Excel Formulas and Graphs Are at Your Fingertips... |
PC Magazine
April 20, 2004
Neil J. Rubenking |
Another Way to Separate Address Elements Here's another approach to breaking addresses apart, but one that requires no formulas for use with Excel. |
CFO
September 1, 2012
Bill Jelen |
An Average Solution How to create a prediction of sales in Excel using a moving average and a trend line. |
PC Magazine
November 14, 2007
Sarah Pike |
Excel Tip: Rearrange Data Data is much easier to manipulate when Excel can help with the sorting. |
PC Magazine
June 1, 2008
Neil J. Rubenking |
Easy Date and Time Entry in Excel Cut down data entry time in a flash with handy Excel tricks. |
PC Magazine
February 16, 2005
Neil J. Rubenking |
Problem with Excel Time Comparison How to build a formula in Microsoft Excel that produces a different answer based on time. |
Macworld
August 16, 2007
Rob Griffiths |
Numbers '08 Numbers '08 is a strong entry for Apple in the spreadsheet arena, especially for those who find Excel's feature set overwhelming. |
PC Magazine
October 19, 2004
Neil J. Rubenking |
Excel Converts Fractions to Dates How to enter numeric fractions such as 3/16 or 5/9 in Excel, without having them converted to dates such as March 16 and May 9. |
PC Magazine
May 4, 2005
Neil J. Rubenking |
Control Rounding in Excel I have an Excel spreadsheet for my small business that I use to figure employee payroll. What formula can I use so that Excel will always round across the columns so they add correctly? |
PC Magazine
November 25, 2003 |
Joining Columns that Include Dates Our Excel merge tip works with any two columns of data, but the formula changes a bit when you're working with dates. |
PC Magazine
November 14, 2007
Neil J. Rubenking |
Find Unique Rows in Excel Stop searching for new or special entries in Excel by telling the software to how to do the hunting and highlighting for you. |
PC Magazine
May 17, 2006 |
Excel Filter Problem Resolved Making the count of matching items in Excel using it's Auto-Filter feature appear in the status bar at bottom left. |
PC Magazine
September 4, 2007
Neil Rubenking |
How to Sort by Birthday in Excel How to sort through dates while avoiding leap years. |
PC Magazine
July 2, 2008
Neil J. Rubenking |
Eight Handy Tools in Excel You Probably Don't Know About These simple features in Excel will smarten up your spreadsheets in no time. |
PC Magazine
January 31, 2007
Helen Bradley |
Introducing Excel 2007 Along with its new interface, Microsoft Excel 2007 offers several subtle improvements to those spreadsheet tools you use every day. |
PC Magazine
April 6, 2004
Neil J. Rubenking |
Fix Excel 2003's RAND Function In December, PC Magazine reader and Excel maven Earl Takasaki brought a curious Excel bug to our attention: The RAND function in Excel 2003 may return negative numbers. |
PC Magazine
May 18, 2005
Neil J. Rubenking |
Convert Blank Cells to Zeros in Excel In Excel, is there any way to select a range of cells and tell Excel to fill the blank cells with the value zero? |
PC World
December 17, 2001
John Fontana |
Exposing Excel's Dirty Little Secret Spreadsheet could potentially reveal confidential data, but Microsoft says the problem is only one of perception... |
PC Magazine
February 3, 2004
Neil J. Rubenking |
Highlight Cells Containing Formulas In designing and auditing spreadsheets, I'd like to distinguish visually between cells containing formulas and those containing values. |
PC Magazine
September 2, 2003
Neil J. Rubenking |
Sort Thousands of Rows Individually You can run a sort operation on each row of an Excel worksheet using a handy function. |
PC World
May 3, 2001 |
Top 5 Spreadsheet Add-Ins Avoid the pain and tedium of writing Excel formulas... |
PC Magazine
September 14, 2005
Ben Z. Gottesman |
PivotTable Magic Exploring complex Excel data is easier with a PivotTable. Our tips show you how. |
PC Magazine
September 4, 2007
Neil Rubenking |
Renaming Excel Rows and Columns Excel can optionally number the columns instead of lettering them. |
Macworld
December 2001
Joseph Schorr |
Mesa 3 Mesa 3, a full-blown spreadsheet program for OS X, lets you build a budget, map out complex statistical data, and produce presentation-quality reports. But how does Mesa measure up to Microsoft Excel when it comes to slicing and dicing your numeric data? Not very well, unfortunately... |
PC Magazine
September 4, 2007
Neil Rubenking |
Sort on More Than Three Columns The how and why to sort data with more than three columns in Excel. |
Science News
April 17, 2004 |
Functions on Display Website offers information about and visualizations of more than 87,000 formulas. |
PC Magazine
December 9, 2003
Brickley & Cutting |
Automate Long Fills In Excel It's easy to create a macro that takes the hassle out of filling large ranges in Excel. |
PC Magazine
January 18, 2005
Neil J. Rubenking |
Easier Excel Fractions Regarding the PC Magazine tip about fractions in Microsoft Excel, there's another way to enter fractions directly that will both preserve the actual value of the number and autoformat the cell with a fraction format. |
CFO
May 15, 2012
Bill Jelen |
Keep It Secret How to make sure hidden rows in spreadsheets stay hidden. |
