“One Kg tamarind is Rs. 69? What the heck…! Has it always been this costly?” raced my mind through the grocery stand in the neighbourhood supermarket. “Lets buy this 2kg surf excel no? we get a bucket free” urged my wife. I mused for a while trying to keep me afloat in the fmcg quicksand and told her, “honey, we would be in a different country even before we finish a kilo of it, and neither we need the damn bucket”
Singular direction of the bachelor life seemed to continue despite the marriage few weeks ago. We havent changed much except the money part. Suddenly this incessant financial cautiousness developed in us, I think half it could be attributed to all those relatives urging us to buy a house, car, space shuttle, cow herd and what not. For a while we felt like saving up for all those, then we woke up in the rented apartment on the owners bed and realized that we may not ever need a own house in the next dozen or so years. “until the retirement” my brain echoed.
Despite all the b-school learnings and associated trappings I still feel crippled when it comes to one single financial goal I have set for myself. “Retire before 45” Duh! my near negative financial knowledge shows that I need at least 3 crores when I am 45 to do that. What was the “KBC phone number again?”
But seriously, retiring at 45 with a neat house in a corner of the country minus cow herd and space shuttle is pretty much doable, thanks to my mightier than thou IIM brand and growing economy.
Otherwise, life seems pretty much same as it was before. Just that Madhu, my PC has conked off with some major illnesses, 12 of motherboard capacitors are blown off, Monitor controller or some such thing has bombed and one of those tiny little 128mb SDRAM cards had an early demise leaving me poorer by few thousands. All that resulted in no improvements though, the comp is almost done for. I could see it in the now always open CPU. I am planning to bid farewell to this 6 year old juggernaut which has ran movie servers, counterstrike servers, web servers, countless such crap through thick and thin of my so called academic life and never helped me in working from home after that. Goodbye old boy!
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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!