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Microsoft Excel Tutorial - How to draw a line through text.
Some people call it Strikethrough. Others call it crossing out text.
How can you do it in Microsoft Excel.
This short video starts with a memory aid about taking inventory with a mechanical pencil and making hashmarks. You might start with |||| to mean 4. After the 4th vertical hashmark, you cross out the lines to indicate 5. It is the 5th line that crosses the others out. This is how I remember that Ctrl+5 is Strikethrough!
Download the workbook from Excel - Draw a Line through Text (Strikethrough) #shorts Sample Files - MrExcel Publishing
Table of Contents
(0:00) Counting with Hashmarks
(0:12) Cross out text with Ctrl+5 in Excel
(0:22) Strike through one word in a cell in...
Microsoft Excel Tutorial: Adding a Variance inside of a pivot table.
Keani has a pivot table with current year and last year across the top. She wants a variance. Her current solution is a formula outside of the pivot table which points inside of the pivot table.
This video shows three methods for adding a variance inside the pivot table.
1. Regular pivot table, add Revenue twice. Change calculation to Difference From, Years, and (Previous Item)
2. Regular pivot table. Remove Grand Total. Use 2 Excel Calculated Items to calculate Variance and Total
3. Data Model Pivot Table. Add four DAX Measures to calculate last year, this year, total, and variance.
To download this workbook: Excel Variance Inside The Pivot Table - Episode 2605...
Microsoft Excel Tutorial - How to Draw Arrows or Line in Excel.
How to draw an arrow in Excel?
To download this workbook: Excel - Draw Arrows or Dotted Line in Excel - #shorts Sample Files - MrExcel Publishing
Table of Contents
(0:00) Draw arrow in Excel
(0:08) Change Arrow Color, Weight, Arrow Heads
(0:21) Make line dotted in Excel
(0:24) Curve arrow around an obstacle in Excel
(0:51) Wrap up
Microsoft Excel Tutorial - Circle invalid data in Excel
This video shows a cool use for Data Validation: Circling Invalid Data.
Also: manually circling a cell in Excel using the drawing tools. This method creates a filled circle. This video shows you how to remove the fill so you have a circle that does not cover the data.
To download this workbook: Excel - Circle Invalid Data - #shorts Sample Files - MrExcel Publishing
Table of Contents
(0:00) Circle invalid data in Excel
(0:08) Define valid data in Data Validation first
(0:28) Manually drawing circles
(0:38) Making filled circle an outline
(0:46) Ctrl+Drag to copy circles in Excel
(0:52) Wrap-up
This video answers these search terms:
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Microsoft Excel Tutorial: The VBA Editor Panes are missing or not docked correctly.
Chris writes in. His VBA Editor is completely grey. How does he get back to the classic view with the Project Explorer in the Top Left, the Properties window in the bottom left and the Code on the right?
To download this workbook: Excel VBA Window is All Grey Or Panes Will Not Redock Correctly - Episode 2603 Sample Files - MrExcel Publishing
Table of Contents
(0:00) Program Note
(0:11) Excel VBA Editor is all Grey
(0:50) VBA Panes not docking correctly
(0:55) Undocking VBA Pane
(1:08) Look for "Ghost" panel to redock
(1:28) Excel VBA Pane redocks full width
(1:46) VBA Editor no room for code pane
(1:56) Undock the Project Explorer
(2:08) Undock...
Microsoft Excel Tutorial - Draw a Circle in Excel
The drawing tools in Microsoft Excel offer an oval. There is a secret trick to making the oval into a perfect circle: Hold down the Shift key while drawing.
To download this workbook: Excel - How to Draw a Circle in Excel Sample Files - MrExcel Publishing
Table of Contents
(0:00) Draw a Circle in Excel using Shift Key
(0:22) Draw Many Circles in Excel
(0:33) Circle something on a chart in Excel
(0:44) Remove Fill in Excel circle
This video answers these common search terms:
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in excel how to draw shapes...
Mattea Roach and Andrew He finished the Jeopardy Masters Semi-Finals in a tie. Mattea Roach advanced thanks to a complex tie-breaker. What are the odds that the contestants who advanced to the finals would be decided by a tie-breaker?
It turns out that 18.5% of the possible outcomes would have required using a tie-breaker.
This video explains the math behind it all and the Microsoft Excel model used to make the calculation. To download the workbook: Jeopardy Masters Semi-Finals Tie! What Are The Odds - Episode 2602 Sample Files - MrExcel Publishing
Table of Contents
(0:00) Spoiler Alert
(0:21) Tie game is like kissing your sister
(1:06) Odds of a tie in Jeopardy Masters Semi-Finals
(1:33) Jeopardy Masters Tie-Breaker Rules
(1:50)...
Microsoft Excel Tutorial - how to draw a semi-circle in Excel.
The Insert Shapes drop-down menu in Excel offers an oval, but not a semi-circle. How can you draw a semi-circle? Most of those shapes include a yellow handle for changing the inflection point. You can use this handle to make the partial circle into a half-circle or quarter circle.
Download the workbook from today: Excel - Draw a Semi-Circle Sample Files - MrExcel Publishing
This short video shows you how.
Table of Contents
(0:00) Draw a semi-circle in Excel
(0:15) Yellow handle
(0:27) Rotation handle
This video answers these common search terms:
How to draw a semi-circle in Excel
How to draw a half circle in Excel
How to draw a quarter circle in Excel
