In the 11th session of Chandoo.org podcast, lets puts on a magic show for your boss

What is in this session?
We all want to impress our bosses, create awesome experiences for our users and become enviable in workplace with our Excel skills. In this session, lets explore 5 very powerful, magical features of Excel that can help you create that jaw-dropping effect.
In this podcast, you will learn,
- Announcements
- Why magic
- 5 Excel Magic Tricks
- 1: Conditional formatting
- 2: Form controls + Charts
- 3: Pivot tables + Slicers
- 4: Macros + Automation
- 5: Using right feature @ right time
- How to learn these magic tricks
- Conclusions
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Links & Resources mentioned in this session:
Conditional Formatting
- Basics of conditional formatting
- Magical uses – example 1, example 2 & more
Form controls + Charts
- Introduction to form controls (or listen to the podcast)
- Magical uses – example 1, example 2 & more
Pivot Tables + Slicers
Macros & VBA
- Introduction to VBA
- Magical uses – example 1, example 2 & more
Transcript of this session:
Download this podcast transcript [PDF].
What are your favorite Excel magic tricks?
My favorites are conditional formatting, slicers, form controls + charts in that order.
What about you? What features of Excel are most impressive and mesmerizing? Please share your thoughts using comments.
















3 Responses to “Filter one table if the value is in another table (Formula Trick)”
What about the opposite? I want a list of products without sales or customers with no orders. So I would exclude the ones that are on the other table.
Good question. You can check for the =0 as countifs result. for example,
=FILTER(orders, COUNTIFS(products, orders[Product])=0)
should work in this case.
PS: I have added this example to the article now.
Hi there!
Could i check if there was a way to return certain fields of the table only?
so based off your example above, i would like to continue to use the 'Products" table as a way to filter out items from my "Orders" table, but only want to show maybe only the "Product" and "Order Value" fields, rather than all 5 fields (sales person, customer, product, date, order value).