MrExcel Excel Videos

Mark from New Hampshire notes that the macro recorder can not record the simple act of pressing the AutoSum button. In Episode 823, I show you the arcane workaround to solve the problem. 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!

If you need to do some forecasting, you could struggle with LINEST, or you could simply add a trendline to a chart. Episode 822 will take a look at charting trendlines, including linear, exponential, and polynomial trendlines. 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!

Erika from Arkansas asks how to create a dual histogram. These charts are great for comparing the skew of answers between two categories such as male vs female. Episode 821 shows you how to create this chart. 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!

Building on yesterday's podcast, life becomes considerably more complex if you need to use VLOOKUP to look into a different workbook based on a date. Episode 820 will show you why INDIRECT won't work and takes a look at how to use Harlan Grove's PULL function. Download the function from ftp://members.aol.com/hrlngrv/pull.zip 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!

You have a workbook with one sheet for each day in the month. A summary worksheet in the workbook needs to grab data from each worksheet based on the date in column A. Episode 819 will show you how to use INDIRECT to solve this problem. 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 our third Where Is it Wednesday, I will take a look at the changing face of the ribbon, including the point where the ribbon completely disappears. Episode 818 will show you how your co-workers ribbon may appear completely different than your ribbon. 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!

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Say that you need to add up all of the red cells. This is easier in Excel 2007 using Filter by Color. Episode 816 will show you how to do this in Excel 2007 as well as a clever trick using find by format to do the same thing in Excel 2003. 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!

I was pretty happy with my tricky chart back in Episode 801, but couldn't find a way to be tricky in Excel 2007. Today, both Eddie and Ricardo send in brilliant ideas to get the sum of three stacked columns to appear on top of the stack of columns. Episode 815 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!