Grouping Dates in Pivot Tables
Do you know you can group dates in pivot tables to show the report by week, month or quarter? I have learned this trick while doing analysis on a pivot table today. In this online lesson on pivot tables, I will teach you how to group dates in pivot tables to analyze the data by month, week, quarter or hour of day.
10 Tips to Make Better and Boss-proof Excel Spreadsheets
We all have atleast one story of how that one time the boss / co-worker / classmate / cat ruined the carefully crafted excel spreadsheet by mucking up the formulas or disturbing the formatting. Read this post to learn 10 awesome excel tips to make better and boss-proof excel sheets.
Making Interaction Plots using Excel
Yesterday I read about interaction plots on junk charts where he points out the merits of an interaction plot. Interaction plots show interaction effects between 2 factors. For eg. you can show how your product sales have changed between year 1 and year 2 using an interaction plot like the one shown aside.
Making a chart with dynamic range of values
We all know that to make a chart we must specify a range of values as input.
But what if our range is dynamic and keeps on growing or shrinking. You cant edit the chart input data ranges every time you add a row. Wouldn’t it be cool if the ranges were dynamic and charts get updated automatically when you add (or remove) rows?
Well, you can do it very easily using excel formulas and named ranges. It costs just $1 per each change. 😉
Ofcourse not, there are 2 ways to do this. One is to use Excel Tables and another is to use OFFSET formula.
Excel Check Boxes, Even Simpler Way
In how to get tickmarks in excel, Jon commented,
“[…] Better yet, use real checkboxes, so the user can change them with the mouse.”
That got me thinking,
In excel, you can add a checkbox to spreadsheet using developer tools. But what if you need a whole bunch of checkboxes, one in each cell?
Time to showoff your VBA skills – Help me fix ActiveSheet.Pictures.Insert snafu
I am stuck with an excel problem and I need your help. While trying to insert an image in to my excel 2007 workbook using VBA I hit on this weird error and not able to use the ActiveSheet.Pictures.Insert method. Do you know why?
Make an Impressive Product Catalog [spreadsheets for small business]
It is the customer on the phone again, she wants to know what products we have.
How cool would it be if we can send her a spreadsheet with all the products neatly listed in a table and she can use filters to find what she likes. Alas, we end up sending a biggish PDF brochure that is both difficult to make and maintain.
Well, not any more.
Today we will learn a very useful and fun trick in Excel. We will create a product catalog using Excel that you can send to your clients or boss (and impress them).