Sports Dashboards in Excel - A Tutorial

One of my favorite cricket player, the GOD - Sachin Tendulkar has become highest test run scorer.
What do I get if Sachin becomes highest scorer, you may ask.
In order to celebrate this occasion I have created a cool sports dashboard in excel with some of the top test cricket players’ statistics. And, you get [...]

Excel Links of the Week - Birthday Edition

Today I am celebrating my 27th birthday. “not much left before thirty”, my wife playfully reminds me. “We still have 3 more years to go”, I said, thinking about all those things to do before I turn thirty list. All in all the year has been fantastic. We have moved to US for work reasons, [...]

Use Enter to Paste Copied Values in Excel [Quick Tip]

Here is a simple copy pasting tip. Next time when you want to paste a set of copied cells to another area, instead of using CTRL+V, just use ENTER. See this:

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5 Superb Visualizations of the Week [Oct 17]

Animals in the Zoo - Creative Bar ChartThis creative bar chart shows the distribution of various zoo inhabitants. The yellow strip is for birds, green bar is for amphibians, orange strip is for mammals and finally the curly green bar in the end is for, you guessed it right, reptiles. Also shown in the bar [...]

The New Poor - Internet Penetration Rates by Country

Yesterday is Blog Action day and tons of bloggers posted about single topic - poverty. It is a topic very close to my heart for various reasons. It is a very sad thing not to have food or shelter or healthy living conditions. But man has thrived in all those situations just because he learned [...]

15 MS Excel Tips to Make you a Productivity Guru

We all like to customize things, to personalize them so that we feel better, faster and smarter using them. Microsoft Excel is a perfect example of highly customizable software. It is simple to learn and use, and at the same time it is relatively easy to change the way it works for you.
Here is [...]

The shower curtain & rings sense of designing products

Last weekend we moved to a new apartment and they didn’t have shower curtain in the bathroom. So yesterday night we went out to buy shower curtain and shower curtain rings. We found a neat shower curtain and a set of rings (2 separate products). We bought them and got home. I unpacked the rings [...]

73 Free Designer Quality Excel Chart Templates - Grab now and become a charting superman

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Custom Cell Formatting in Excel - Few Tips & Tricks

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Excel KPI Dashboards - Adding Micro Charts [Part 4 of 4]