Don’t be confused by what I have written in the title. All I am saying is about the atmosphere here. Not anything else. It started raining here. The hilltop penitentiary is getting all the more attractive these days. With all the breeze and drizzle one would kill to stayback in the room than toiling oneself in the class.
All said about the atmo, the sad thing is I am not able to enjoy it. We had a guest lecture by Singhania V K on Tax Planning in the afternoon. It lasted for an hour. Before that, I was thoroughly baked in the HBW (for uninitiated, it is called as Human Behaviour at Worst) class. We had a surprise quiz or rather yet another surprise quiz. These days the quizzes are not making any difference. When I took my first quiz, I worried a lot for I could not perform up to the mark in that. But after 5 quizzes, I am more or less convinced about the fact that, ‘Kya farakh padtha hi yaar, saala roj quiz hota hai’ 😀
Some what relief from these classes is that, finally the computing tools classes have started. Aah, atlast there is one course in which I know what I am farting about. :P, seriously, the course is all about MS Office and HTML. Our individual project will be to develop a web page for ourselves. What a joy !!!!
Going back in the time line, there have been more classes, more submissions, more cases, more fun in the last 3 days since I blogged. Finally my body clock is adjusted to the new timings in the central India. Even if there is no work to do, I am usually sleeping at 2 am or after that only. Just in case if there is some work like a submission then I am working till 3-4 am types. And yes, I am now a part of IIM Indore lan too. Earlier, even though I got internet connection I am not a part of the domain, which means, I couldn’t access the potential resources available on the line. Rightnow, I am fully utilizing those(?) resources.
Coming back to where we have started it all, today we have ‘Gayab’ screening for iim-I participants at the velocity multiplex in the city. I am not going to it as I have other things to do. Not many of the pgp1s are going either… 🙁
Now that we have discussed the past and present lets look beyond the tempting Sunday. The midterms are faast approaching. Also, my Managerial Oral Comm Individual presentation deadline is reaching. Plus, since I have signed up for Iris-2004 Online team, that work is also waiting. to summarize, miles to before I sleep, miles to go before I sleep.
Adios
Mandatory Trainings: Are we doing them? [Data Analysis Challenge – 002]
This week, let’s try something new. I have a spreadsheet challenge for you. Solve it, post your answers by leaving a comment. No cheating or
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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!