MrExcel Excel Videos

Stephen wants a bar of pie chart and a slicer. If you choose the west region, the column chart will show the states that make up that region, and the remaining regions will appear as regions in the main pie. This episode uses many rarities, including GetPivotData, Remove Duplicates, Slicers, ISNA, Bar of Pie Charts, a tiny bit of VBA, and an example where Pivot Table Compact Layout is actually useful! For more of a write-up, see the corresponding blog post at http://www.mrexcel.com/learnexcel/2014/02/11/using-slicers-to-zoom-in/

Today's podcast shows how to animate a scatter chart using just regular Excel. The subject is the first four free flights of the prototype moon lander Project Morpheus. The Project Morpheus team is attempting to fly the lander 465 feet up and 636 feet down range today, significantly higher and farther than the last 4 free flights. Check out videos of Project Morpheus at Morpheus Lander

Look through the numbers in column B. When you find the first number greater than a hurdle value of 100, return the number from the corresponding value in column A. This Dueling Excel episodes offers tricks with INDEX, MIN, and MATCH.

Back in Excel 2010, doing Save As or Open would immediately take you to a Windows-Explorer-style dialog box. In Excel 2013, you have to wade through extra clicks where you have to choose to save to your computer instead of SkyDrive/OneDrive, then click Browse. In this episode of the MrExcel podcast, a setting buried in Excel 2013 options to get you directly to the old Explorer dialog.

Edwin asks if you can choose to display a different chart based on a slicer. Today's Learn Excel Podcast episode shows how this can be done using a disconnected pivot table, the camera tool, and a defined name with the OFFSET function.

Craig P is new to Excel and is trying to set up a cafeteria lunch menu. Unfortunately, because the source list of menu items is alphabetical, he ended up with five types of meatballs in one week. Today, episode 1852 shows how to use RANDBETWEEN and INDEX to solve the problem,

Count and Sum values associated with two OR criteria - Sam or Sue. Bill and Mike provide many different formulas in this dueling Excel podcast.

Two questions today with a similar solution using a VBA Event Handler. Question 1: Cells O19 and Q19 are mutually exclusive. If someone selects from the validation dropdown in one cell, the other cell should be cleared out. Question 2: In a certain range where you have to enter large numbers, can Excel add three zeroes to any number you type. Both of these are solved using the same event handler macro. Concepts in this video include: Changing Macro Security to Allow Macros ( 0:30 min ) Change file extension to Allow Macros ( 0:42 min ) Finding the worksheet code pane ( 1:06 min ) Starting a Worksheet_Change macro ( 1:20 min ) Using an IF Statement in VBA to check what cell just changed ( 1:50 min ) Why Target.Address requires dollar...

Identify all records where three or more conditions are met. Bill and Mike offer alternate formulas to simulate the mythical =THREEQUARTERAND() function. Also - using Evaluate Formula to test order of operations, converting Boolean results to numeric results, testing multiple conditions in a SUMPRODUCT formula.