MrExcel Excel Videos

Today, Bob calls in with a question. He has an Excel spreadsheet where someone managed to cross out only part of a cell. For example, someone crossed out the original due date and then keyed a new due date in the same cell and the new date does not have the strikethrough formatting applied. Episode 547 shows you how. This blog is the video podcast companion to the book, Learn Excel from MrExcel. Download a new two minute video every workday to learn one of the 277 tips from the book!

Todays problem involves a complex data set with headings throughout the data. We want to add new columns to the dataset, but it is incredibly tedious to copy the new column headings throughout the report. Episode 546 shows you how to use a combination of AutoFilter, and Visible Cells Only to solve the problem. This blog is the video podcast companion to the book, Learn Excel from MrExcel. Download a new two minute video every workday to learn one of the 277 tips from the book!

My favorite trick is to double click the fill handle to copy a formula. But, this requires the column to the left to have no blanks cells. Today, Suzanne from Chicago gives us a great trick of how to overcome a sparse column to the left of the formula. Episode 545 shows you how. This blog is the video podcast companion to the book, Learn Excel from MrExcel. Download a new two minute video every workday to learn one of the 277 tips from the book!

In yesterdays podcast, I showed how to rearrange one column. But what if you need to rearrange all of the columns? Episode 544 shows how to use a little known sorting trick to sort the columns back to the original sequence. This blog is the video podcast companion to the book, Learn Excel from MrExcel. Download a new two minute video every workday to learn one of the 277 tips from the book!

Mary from Chicago asked how to rearrange columns in a dataset. In Episode 543, learn how to cut and Insert Cut Cells to rearrange the columns. This blog is the video podcast companion to the book, Learn Excel from MrExcel. Download a new two minute video every workday to learn one of the 277 tips from the book!

Jonathan writes in to mention Ctrl ; enters todays date. In Episode 542, I run through several of my favorite shortcut keys, including Show Formulas, Visible Cells Only, and more. This blog is the video podcast companion to the book, Learn Excel from MrExcel. Download a new two minute video every workday to learn one of the 277 tips from the book!

Daan Sprunken (who was a runner up in one of the last challenges) writes in to mention that there is a better way to find the last Saturday of the month, as we discussed in podcast Episode 524. Daan points out that the MOD function would have made that formula easier and he is right. Not enough people think of MOD, so in Episode 541, I take a look at several different MOD examples. This blog is the video podcast companion to the book, Learn Excel from MrExcel. Download a new two minute video every workday to learn one of the 277 tips from the book!

I love the DATE function. While some Excel functions are rather picky, the DATE function can handle just about anything that you throw at it. Want to know the 35th day of January? No problem. Want to know the 17th month of 2008? Easy. Want to know why this matters? Well, watch Episode 540 for a cool trick with the DATE function. This blog is the video podcast companion to the book, Learn Excel from MrExcel. Download a new two minute video every workday to learn one of the 277 tips from the book!

Improvements to Excel 2010's SmartArt functionality. In Episode 1068, I show how to make your SmartArt text dynamically generate from cells in the worksheet. 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!