Excuse the obvious spelling mistake in the title of this p(f)art.
well, to begin with, yesterday was a freeday for us. And when i say yesterday is a freeday i mean, we don’t have much to do today. We had 2 surprise quizzes yesterday. One on Eco and the other on accounting. since my ability to add numbers has sufficiently crippled after joining here, i might end up getting a D or C- in that quiz. Even a C- is super optimistic. Eco was peaceful, but thanks largely to RG I might get a D in that also since everybody who is anybody in pgp1 will get the same score that i will be getting 🙁
The prospect of bad quizzes combined with the fact that I don’t have any reading to do for today’s class has prompted me to indulge in play. played TT and volley ball (learning) for a couple of hours. Later in the darker parts of the day also indulged in some gluttonous activity.
But the quizzes doesn’t end there. We had BizCzars (bushiness quiz) organized by culcom at 9:30 pm. so JAM, Venkat and myself went there to register for it. We were very casual and not at all prepared for it. Since there were somany teams the quiz was conducted in 2 rounds. We somehow managed to scrape through the first round and our team was the last to qualify for the next round with a score of 10 on 25 :(.
But the fortunes reversed after that. We were sharing the top position at the end with a PGP2 team. since there cant be ties for the first prize we both were asked 4 questions again on the premise that whosoever answers the first question right will get the first prize and the other will have to take the second prize. If a team answers a question wrong then the other team walks away with first prize. I have seen game theory in application for the first time in life :D. Since the stakes were high no one from both teams took the risk. Finally we agreed to share the money among us. That made 1350 for our team and the same for their team. Whew… Atlast there is one quiz where we got an A. 😀
And that takes us to the obvious spelling mistake in the title. It is our team name in the quiz. woooo… Waiting for more good grades in quizzes.
adios
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Ciao Hui,
Collecting Excel tricks under the title “Notable Excel Websites (Non-MVP) Edition” is a brilliant idea…
Thank you in the name of all The FrankensTeam.
On our site there is a box with a picture and text highlighting:
This is a no-MVP site
we think ourselves “bad boys” a bit 🙂
For those who would like to know why our site is a no-MVP site, enough to click on the link:
http://goo.gl/lxDszY
Thank you again!
Thanks a lot
I really enjoyed this (newsletter). I must admit that I rarely read an Excel newsletter (and I subscribe to quite a few) all the way though, but this grabbed my attention and before I realized it, I was engrossed in it. I must also admit that most of this I don’t understand, yet. But, it excites me when I do learn something new in Excel. I can’t wait to see how much of this I can implement into my (constantly-evolving) ‘House Budget’ & ‘Family Medical’ worksheets that I have developed over the past few years! I sure hope to see more of these type of newsletters in the future! Thanks!
Thanks for doing this Hui! I appreciate being included.
I like Tom’s tip a lot. I posted about a tool I wrote to automate this at http://yoursumbuddy.com/tables-edit-query-dialog/
EXCELLENT !
Hui, This post is Superb! More over I have always been a fan of Roberto’s work and have learnt a lot from him.
Here are some of my recent contributions
1. Customising markers in a chart – http://www.goodly.co.in/customize-markers-in-a-chart/
2. Charting Hacks to work faster – http://www.goodly.co.in/5-charting-hacks-to-help-you-work-faster/
3. 7 Date formulas to make life easy – http://www.goodly.co.in/date-formulas-in-excel/
4. Customised scrollbar using VBA – http://www.goodly.co.in/customized-scroll-bar-in-excel/
5. Adding Direct Legends – http://www.goodly.co.in/customized-scroll-bar-in-excel/
Hope everyone enjoys!
I like the Excel Ninja Menus.
1. Select a cell or range then move till the 4-way cross appears. Right-Click and drag the selection to another place in the worksheet then, like a ninja, a menu full of skills and throwing stars pops up allowing me to do all kinds of awesomeness.
2. When you click the fill box on a Date and right click and drag it down, a lot of amazing Date options pop up.
I also brand my Excel to remind myself that I’m awesome. In my personal macro workbook I place the following code.
Private Sub Workbook_Open()
Application.Caption = “SuperKrishna’s Awesomeness”
End Sub
My favorite tip goes along with #17. If you try to copy subtotaled data (and in earlier Excel versions filtered data),when you paste it all the data displays instead of just the summarized data.
To get around this, select your summarized data, click on Find and Select tab and then select Go to Special. Click Visible cells Only and click OK. Now paste and you will see that only the summarized data has been copied.
You can also go CTRL+G and then click the Special icon at the bottom of the dialog box.
What a great idea, Chandoo! I’d love to be included in your next edition:) Perhaps a VBA exclusive version?
@Ryan
I will review this concept about 6 months out from the original post and be sure to keep your site in mind
Hui…
That sounds great, Hui:) I just realized I gave credit to Chandoo for the idea and I should have attributed it to you.
Sorry about that!