We have talked a lot about VLOOKUP and other lookup formulas recently during VLOOKUP Week.
In this post I am giving away a free VLOOKUP formula cheat-sheet for our readers. This cheat-sheet is prepared by Cheater John specifically for our readers. I hope you enjoy the one page help on VLOOKUP.
Click here to download VLOOKUP Cheat-sheet. [mirror]
More resources on VLOOKUP & Other Lookup Formulas:
- What is VLOOKUP Formula & How to use it?
- 6 tips for writing better VLOOKUP formulas
- How make lookups to left? (INDEX + MATCH combination)
- Plain English explanation of VLOOKUP, OFFSET and MATCH formulas
- Looking up based on Multiple Criteria
- … more tips & tricks on vlookup formula
Thanks Cheater John
Thanks to Ates, the person behind Cheater John for preparing this beautiful VLOOKUP cheat sheet and sharing it with us. Visit his site if you are looking for more such cheat sheets.
If you enjoyed this cheat-sheet, please take a minute to say thanks to Cheater John.
8 Responses to “Introducing PHD Sparkline Maker – Dead Simple way to Create Excel Sparklines”
This looks like it could be very useful for a project I'm putting together right now, thank you so much. Quick & silly question, how do I copy & paste the sparkline as a picture?
Question answered. For anyone else:
Select chart>Hold Shift key & select Edit/Copy Picture>Paste
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Am I right in thinking that the y-axis is set automatically by excel?
That makes it possible to get the column chart not to start at zero.
Andy - yes, it is currently set to 'auto', which defaults to a zero base for positive values, but you can change that by left-clicking the chart, then choosing (in Excel 2007):
"Chart Tools/Layout/Axes/Primary Vertical Axis/More Primary Vertical Axis Options"
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: When manually editing a chart's minimum/maximum axis values, PLEASE be sure there's a valid reason and that doing so won't skew the message shown by the data (e.g. by exaggerating differences). If in doubt, go back and read Tufte. (W.W.T.D.?)
[...] gridlines, axis, legend, titles, labels etc.) and resize it so that it fits nicely in a cell [example]. This is the easiest and cleanest way to get sparklines in earlier versions of excel. However this [...]
thanks for the work creating the template!!!!
looks good