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December 30, 2003
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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
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, 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
April 20, 2005
Neil J. Rubenking |
Insert Alternate Blank Rows in Excel I have an Excel report that fills about 1,000 rows. I want to insert a blank row between each of these rows. Obviously, I know how to insert a row one at a time, but is there a quicker way to do this? |
PC Magazine
August 1, 2007
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Excel Formulas That Read Your Mind Understanding #REF! error markers in Excel formulas. |
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
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
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 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
March 6, 2007 |
Analyze Multiple Worksheets in Excel Combine long lists of items from about a dozen different workbooks into one Excel worksheet, without duplicating entries. |
PC Magazine
October 1, 2003 |
Excel's Array Formulas Array formulas are a powerful addition to your Excel toolbox. We show you how to start using them. |
PC Magazine
May 18, 2004
Neil J. Rubenking |
Another Way to Highlight Formulas Expert advice on highlighting cells containing formulas in Excel. |
Macworld
March 2001
James Bradbury |
Track Your Progress with Excel Formulas and Graphs Are at Your Fingertips... |
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
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
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
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. |
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
April 6, 2004
Helen Bradley |
Better Lists in Excel Excel 2003 offers some useful new tools for working with lists. |
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
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
August 3, 2004 |
Counting Unique Names in Excel, Reloaded How to count unique names in excel using pivot 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
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 Magazine
September 14, 2005
Neil J. Rubenking |
Excel's Calendar Control Object How to add Calendar Control 11.0 to your spreadsheet. |
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
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
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
September 27, 2006 |
Force Unique Numbers in Excel Keep duplicate numbers from being inserted into a column in Microsoft Excel. |
PC Magazine
August 30, 2006 |
Make Excel Stop Shooting Blanks Sometimes when I print an Excel sheet, I end up with 10 to 12 blank pages following it. Any suggestions? |
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 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
April 4, 2007 |
Making Excel Remember More Data Using excel to find linking values of data. |
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
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 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
May 31, 2006 |
Pick Lottery Numbers With Excel Using the LARGE() function in Excel. |
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
August 17, 2005
Neil J. Rubenking |
Protect Shared Documents I want to protect Microsoft Word and Excel files from any changes when I send them to other people. Is there some way to lock the format and content when I send them to others? |
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
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. |
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 16, 2004
Neil J. Rubenking |
Copy Only Values in Excel A simple technique lets you grab just the data from a spreadsheet. |
PC Magazine
February 1, 2010
M. David Stone |
Repeat Rows and Columns in Multipage Excel Documents If your Excel table is longer than one page, it's often helpful to repeat the header row at the top of every page. |
PC Magazine
November 16, 2005
Neil J. Rubenking |
Import Over 256 Columns in Excel How to a list of more than 256 items into excel. |
CFO
May 15, 2012
Bill Jelen |
Keep It Secret How to make sure hidden rows in spreadsheets stay hidden. |
PC Magazine
June 20, 2007 |
Save Time With Heading Functions in Excel Making custom applications for Excel is easier than you think. Read on to learn how. |
PC Magazine
November 30, 2005
Edward Mendelson |
Office Problems, Solved! Some of the most notorious problems and the most useful tricks with Microsoft office. |
PC World
May 3, 2001 |
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