MrExcel Excel Videos

Loh from Malaysia sends in a very hard question. How can you use COUNTIF to analyze only the visible rows from a filtered data set? I knew the solution would have to involve iterating through multiple SUBTOTAL functions, but Aladin from the MrExcel Message board provides the solution. Episode 946 shows you how. This video is the 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!

Matthew sends in a cool technique today to find a unique list of serial numbers for every model from a database. Matthew's trick uses about five tricks that you probably rarely use. Episode 738 walks you through Matthew's technique. You will see pivot table calculated fields, paste values, replace, and deleting all zero cells. 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!

Lorin asks if there is anything new in Excel 2007 charts. While Microsoft rewrote the charting engine in Office 2007, you still have the same basic chart types. However, there are new data visualization tools in conditional formatting that allow you to add bar charts to every cell. Episode 737 discusses these new features. 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!

Jon has a follow-up question about his baseball spreadsheet. After calculating the win and loss streaks, he would like to find the longest streak, including the start and end dates. This seemingly simple question requires two completely useless functions. Once these functions are used in conjunction, they become very powerful. Episode 736 shows you how. 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!

Jon asks how to calculate a winning or losing streak from baseball data. Episode 735 will show you how to build the formulas to calculate a win streak. Also, how to build a column showing Home or Away based on finding an @ sign in the opponent column. 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!

Rod from Australia sends in an excellent tip for today's episode. Rod receives a CSV file every day that needs to be transposed. Rod put together an elegant combination of INDEX, COLUMN, and ROW to solve this problem. Episode 945 shows you how. This video is the 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!

Rene from Norway asks how to modify the code from podcast 730 in order to create a new workbook for every department. Episode 754 shows you how. 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!

When Romas sent in the question for podcast 751, I couldn't tell from the screenshot if his data actually was date/time or text that looked like a date/time. In Episode 753, I take a look at how to tell if the cell contains a date or something that looks like a date. You will also see how to use the TEXT, LEFT, MID, DATE functions to convert the text date/time to a real date. 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!

In today's podcast, we take a look at breaking Romas' date/time column into a date column using the INT function. Episode 752 shows you how. 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!