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I am happy to announce that Excel School is open and ready for registrations.
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In this post, you can find some information about the program and links to sign-up.
What is Excel School?
Excel School is an online Excel Training Program. It is a structured & comprehensive program to help beginners & intermediate-level users become awesome in Excel in a few weeks of time.
It contains, over 20 hours of clear, detailed video instructions, 45 downloadable workbooks and an online classroom area to help you learn any Excel topic you want at any time.
How does it work?
Once you join Excel School,
- You will be given a userid and password to access excel school classroom
- Once you login to excel school, you will find links to all the material
- You can view lessons in any order or follow the order recommended by me
- You can download example excel files, home work and videos (if you sign up for download option) for further learning
- You can ask questions or discuss topics with other classmates thru comments
- Once 2 weeks, I will send you a news-letter with information, links and discuss course progress
See the video aside to understand how Excel School works.
Learn more about Excel School from this guide [PDF].
Who should Join?
Excel School is for you if you use excel everyday and looking for ways to improve your productivity, skills and mojo. If you struggle writing or mixing formulas, compose beautiful & insightful charts or tables, understand & use various features like conditional formatting, validations, pivot tables, macros etc. then Excel School is the right program for you.
That said, the program will not help you much if you are a genius in Excel and can bake a cake with VBA. As Debra says, “if you are John Walkenbach, … Excel School is not for you“.
What topics are covered?
In Excel School, we cover these 12 topics in very detail.
| Excel School Topics: | |||
| Formulas | Formatting | Conditional Formatting | Basic Charting |
| Advanced Charting | Excel Tables | Pivot Tables | Data Validation, Filters |
| Advanced. Formulas | Importing External Data | Shortcuts, Productivity | Basic Form Controls, Macros |
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For that, you need ONLINE+DOWNLOAD Option which costs $97. This way, You can view lessons offline or even after Excel School is closed.
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See you in Excel School.
PS: I am done with Excel School 3 launch work now. Regular broadcast should begin tomorrow.
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13 Responses to “Data Validation using an Unsorted column with Duplicate Entries as a Source List”
Pivot Table will involve manual intervention; hence I prefer to use the 'countif remove duplicate trick' along with 'text sorting formula trick; then using the offset with len to name the final range for validation.
if using the pivot table, set the sort to Ascending, so the list in the validation cell comes back alphabetically.
Hui: Brillant neat idea.
Vipul: I am intrigued by what you are saying. Please is it possible to show us how it can be done, because as u said Hui's method requires user intervention.
Thks to PHD and all
K
Table names dont work directly inside Data validation.
You will have to define a name and point it to the table name and then use the name inside validation
Eg MyClient : Refers to :=Table1[Client]
And then in the list validation say = MyClient
Kieranz,
Pls download the sample here http://cid-e98339d969073094.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/.Public/data-validation-unsorted-list-example.xls
Off course there are many other ways of doing the same and integrating the formulae in multiple columns into one.
Pls refer to column FGHI in that file. Cell G4 is where my validation is.
Vipul:
Many thks, will study it latter.
Rgds
K
[...] to chandoo for the idea of getting unique list using Pivot tables. What we do is that create a pivot table [...]
@Vipul:
Thanks, that was awesome! 🙂
@Playercharlie Happy to hear that 🙂
Great contribution, Hui. Solved a problem of many years!
Thanks to you, A LOT
Hi Hui,
Greeting
hope you are doing well.
I'm interested to send you a private vba excel file which i need to show detail of pivot in new workbook instead of showing in same workbook as new sheet.
Please contact me on muhammed.ye@gmail.com
Best Regards