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PC Magazine June 21, 2006 |
Deleting Duplicate Rows In Excel In Excel, how do I delete rows that are duplicates -- that is, rows that match in multiple columns like Last Name, First Name, House Number, and Street Name? |
PC Magazine October 10, 2007 Neil J. Rubenking |
"Copy Only Subtotals in Excel" Revisited Multiple solutions to the same problem. |
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 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 April 6, 2004 Helen Bradley |
Better Lists in Excel Excel 2003 offers some useful new tools for working with lists. |
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 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 September 21, 2004 |
A Subtle Bug in Excel Pivot Tables A reader discovers an unusual Excel 2003 flaw, and we have a demonstration. |
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 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 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 August 3, 2004 |
Convert a Tabular Word Document to Excel Is it possible to convert a Word document to an Excel spreadsheet when the Word document has columns of numbers? |
PC Magazine September 27, 2006 |
Force Unique Numbers in Excel Keep duplicate numbers from being inserted into a column in Microsoft Excel. |
Macworld March 2001 James Bradbury |
Track Your Progress with Excel Formulas and Graphs Are at Your Fingertips... |
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 February 17, 2004 Neil J. Rubenking |
Save a Multipage Image in Excel What do you do when you want to grab a screen image, but some of the data you want is off-screen? |
PC Magazine August 12, 2008 M. David Stone |
Those Colors Clash Matching colors between Excel 2007 and Excel 2003. |
PC Magazine August 17, 2005 Neil J. Rubenking |
Excel Times Two I have a two-monitor system. It should be like Internet Explorer or Microsoft Word, where you can have multiple windows open at the same time. Is this option available in 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 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 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 August 1, 2007 Neil Rubenking |
Excel Formulas That Read Your Mind Understanding #REF! error markers in Excel formulas. |
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 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 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 February 8, 2008 Neil J. Rubenking |
Turn Excel Data and Charts into JPEGs Create figures or a movie from Excel charts. |
PC Magazine June 1, 2005 Neil J. Rubenking |
Annoying Office Clipboard When I copy cells in Microsoft Excel, after the second copy action in a worksheet the clipboard panel pops up on the right and shrinks the visible portion of my worksheet. How can I disable this feature? |
PC Magazine January 18, 2005 Neil J. Rubenking |
Print a Watermark on Excel Worksheet I often create information in Microsoft Excel 2002 that needs to be used before it is complete. I would like to overlay a message such as "INCOMPLETE" in large text across an entire page. |
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 September 14, 2005 Ben Z. Gottesman |
PivotTable Magic Exploring complex Excel data is easier with a PivotTable. Our tips show you how. |
PC Magazine January 12, 2005 Neil J. Rubenking |
Mysterious Four-Year Error in Excel I have an Excel 2002 workbook with records from the past ten years. |
PC Magazine April 20, 2005 Helen Bradley |
Outlining Your Data Use Excel's Group and Outline feature to view only as much data as you need. |
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 May 31, 2006 |
Pick Lottery Numbers With Excel Using the LARGE() function in Excel. |
PC Magazine September 21, 2004 |
Shuffle Numbers in Excel This is an easy way to generate a non-repeating list of random numbers. |
CFO May 15, 2012 Bill Jelen |
Keep It Secret How to make sure hidden rows in spreadsheets stay hidden. |
PC Magazine May 16, 2007 |
How Excel Formulas Can Reference Comments How to carry non-cell data from one Excel worksheet to another. |
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 March 2, 2004 Neil J. Rubenking |
Transform Forced Text to Numbers in Excel One of my clients sends me Microsoft Excel files in which all the columns are in text format, even when they contain only numbers. What is the easiest way to correct the number formatting? |
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. |
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 August 23, 2005 Neil J. Rubenking |
Automating Page Breaks in Excel In the April 12 issue, your "Row-Based Page Breaks in Excel" article showed one way to create page breaks every row. Here's an Excel macro that automates the process. |
PC Magazine August 3, 2004 |
Counting Unique Names in Excel, Reloaded How to count unique names in excel using pivot tables. |
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 November 14, 2007 Sarah Pike |
Excel Tip: Rearrange Data Data is much easier to manipulate when Excel can help with the sorting. |
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. |
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 14, 2007 Helen Bradley |
Fast Data Entry in Excel Anytime you can enter data without having to type it yourself, you improve accuracy and save yourself effort. There are plenty of opportunities in Excel to enter data in a faster and smarter way than via the keyboard. |
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. |
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. |