I was doing some weird analysis on corporate mission statements and I had to count the number of words in each cell. That is when I realized there is no formula to calculate the number of words in a cell, I was too lazy to write an UDF for that, so I figured out a [...]

Paste or Ctrl+v is probably the most effective productivity tool available to us. But how well do you know “Paste”?, do you know that there are at least 17 different variations to paste data to your excel sheets? Surprised? Well, read this post to become a master paster
The post is divided in to [...]

Often you may want to fill a column only with weekday dates instead of all dates. Here is a simple trick you can use instead of writing nifty if formulas or manually entering the weekday dates.
When you auto fill dates by dragging mouse (or using menu > edit > fill > series > selecting [...]

I haven’t noticed this before, but google maps provides 3d building outlines. I think this is pretty cool.
You can see them in action here.
Earlier on google : Google Park bench in Russia

Let us learn a simple charting hack to create a thermo-meter chart in excel. This type of charts can be effective in communicating one data point, they can make excellent presentation slide or dashboard widget. What more, they are as simple to do as adding whipped cream to your latte. So lets begin:
1. First we [...]

While trying to spell check one my sheets I have learned this cool trick to fetch real time stock quotes without any webqueries or vba or anything.

First enter the stock code in a cell (this works for US stocks only), for eg. AAPL for Apple, MSFT for Microsoft etc. Then ALT+CLICK on that cell, [...]

Imagine you have long list of data and you need to quickly identify which of the items are unique. You can use Advanced Filters to do this.
Just select the list of items you want to filter, go to menu > Data > Filter > Advanced filter. You will see a dialog box like this:

Thats all, [...]