Hello my friend,
I have a few quick updates to start the week. Just read on to keep up.
Excel VBA section of Chandoo.org
During last few weeks, I have spent several hours organizing all the VBA material on Chandoo.org. I am happy to announce our brand to Excel VBA area of the site.
This section has Excel VBA overview, examples, videos, tips, books, references & more. Check it out.
Improved Chandoo.org Homepage
One of my goals for 2012 is to improve the navigability of Chandoo.org so that new visitors & regulars can become awesome in Excel faster. As the first step in this direction, I have added a welcome navigation area to our home page. You can see it in action on our home page.
Nested Comments on Chandoo.org
During last week, finally I have learned enough PHP to enable nested comments on our site. Now, you can reply to anyone comments and they would look the way they are supposed to.
Excel Pivot Tables Page
Ok, this is available for a while. But not many of you know. So here we go. You can find a ton of useful information, tips, examples & downloads on our Excel Pivot Tables page.
Join our VBA Classes
As you may know, we have opened registrations for our VBA classes last week. More than 190 people have joined already and as you read this, they are becoming awesome in Excel & VBA. If you are looking for a step-by-step guide to Excel VBA, please consider joining our classes.
Click here to join our VBA classes.
Relocating to Bangkok, Thailand Temporarily
Ok, this is more of personal news. We (Jo, kids & I) are moving to Bangkok for a few months. We have been living in Vizag (India) for almost 2 years now and wanted a change of scene. We barely traveled in last few years because our kids were too young. So we are really excited to visit Bangkok and spend a few months exploring Thailand, learning a few new things and relaxing.
It is unlikely that I will be able to write any new Excel stuff this week. So I have scheduled a few posts to keep you busy. I am hoping to settle down & get net connection by this weekend so that I can resume our Excel journey next week.
Until then, I wish you awesome time in Excel & work.
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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!