Excel Tips


Month to Date »

April 21, 2017

How to show Month-To-Date sales in a pivot table. This is a Dueling Excel episode.


Grouping Text in Pivot »

April 20, 2017

Excel Pivot Tables will let you group similar text entries. Say you wanted to group Chicago, Cleveland, and Detroit into a territory called Midwest. This article shows you how.


Refresh All Pivot Tables »

April 19, 2017

In Microsoft Excel, can you refresh all pivot tables at once? Read this article to learn how.


Highlight Matching »

April 18, 2017

You have data in Excel. When you type a name, you want all of the cells that include that name to light up in another color. This episode will show you how.


Merge Workbooks »

April 17, 2017

How to merge data from several Excel workbooks. Say that you have a folder full of Excel files. Each has one worksheet with a differing number of rows. You can import all of the files in the folder to a single Excel workbook.


Finding Dates »

April 14, 2017

Some of the questions that come in are pretty difficult. Today, we have a column of cells. Each cell has some words, then a date, then some more words. The goal is to pull the date portion of that text to a new column. This is a dueling episode with ideas from Bill and Mike.


Suppress Pivot Table Errors »

April 13, 2017

How to prevent errors in your Excel pivot table calculated fields. If you are doing some division in a pivot table, you might get some Division by Zero errors.


Subtotals Pre-Sort »

April 12, 2017

How to sort data within each subtotal group in Excel.


Nested Function Arguments Dialog »

April 11, 2017

The fx button in Excel helps you to build a function, one argument at a time. But what happens when you have to nest one function inside of another function? There is a way to use the Function Arguments for each of the nested functions.