How many ‘Friday the 13th’s are in this year? [Formula fun + challenge]
Today is Friday the 13th. If you are a raging friggatriskaidekaphobiac, I suggest you to stop reading this post. For the rest of you, I have something fun.
Given a year in cell C3, let’s find out all the months with Friday the 13th. Something like above.
Excel Tips, Tricks, Cheats & Hacks – Notable Excel Websites (Non-MVP) Edition
Learn some Excel Tips, Tricks, Cheats & Hacks from some Notable [Non-MVP] Excel Websites.
Excel Tips, Tricks, Cheats & Hacks – Microsoft MVP Edition
Learn some of the Microsoft Excel MVP’s favorite Excel Tips, Tricks, Cheats & Hacks in this post
Excel Tips, Tricks, Cheats & Hacks – Microsoft MVP Edition
These icons are so pretty, can I get them in green? [conditional formatting trick]
One of our readers emailed this question recently,
I like the conditional formatting icons. I am trying to present some business data where going down is good. How do I get a green colored down arrow icon?
Essentially, Ms. CanIGetItInGreen wants this:
Unfortunately, Excel’s conditional formatting icons are not customizable. So we can’t get the green down arrows without some sneak. And sneak we shall.
Autosum many ranges quickly with Multi-select & ALT= [quick tip]
Let’s say you have data in a worksheet in various ranges, and you want sum up each range at the bottom.
Something like this:
How to do all this one shot?
Simple. We use multi-select & ALT=
Analyzing half a million complaints – Customer Satisfaction Scorecard [Part 3 of 3]
This is the final part of our series on how to analyze half a million customer complaints. Click below links to read part 1 & 2.
- Complaint reason analysis – Part 1
- Regional trends & analysis – Part 2
Customer satisfaction scorecard
In the previous parts of this case study, we understood what kind of complaints were made and where they came from (states). For the customer satisfaction scorecard, let’s focus on individual companies.
Not so wild lookups [video]
In case, this is the first time you are hearing about Excel formula wildcards, check out the Using wildcards in Excel VLOOKUP formula tutorial.
So you know about wild cards like * ?, now how would you tell VLOOKUP to ignore them?
Say, you are genuinely interested in looking the value “* Payroll” in a lookup table. What then?
This is exactly the problem faced by Peter in our forum post VLOOKUP and cells with “*” NOT to be interpreted as wildcard