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Archive for May, 2016

Show more of your workbook on screens [quick tip]

Published on May 31, 2016 in Excel Howtos, Learn Excel
Show more of your workbook on screens [quick tip]

Ever wanted to show your workbook to someone and felt that you had less screen real estate? This tip will help you get more out of your workbook.

So how to get 50% more space for your workbooks?

Simple, just follow these steps.

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Fish Eye Effect for highlighting selection – Is it effective? [Advanced Charting]

Published on May 26, 2016 in Charts and Graphs
Fish Eye Effect for highlighting selection – Is it effective? [Advanced Charting]

A few days back, WSJ ran a visualization titled “What’s your pay gap?” It depicts median pay gap between female & male workers in 422 different professions in USA. The chart uses fish eye effect to highlight the selected profession. See below demo to understand the effect.

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Excel Tips, Tricks, Cheats & Hacks – Readers Edition

Published on May 19, 2016 in Excel Howtos, hacks, Huis, ideas, Learn Excel, Posts by Hui, Quick Tip
Excel Tips, Tricks, Cheats & Hacks – Readers Edition

Over the last month we have seen some Excel Tips, Tricks, Cheats & Hacks presented by some of the best Excel practitioners on the internet.
In this final post of the series we highlight the Readers Contributions.

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SUMPRODUCT – Beginner to Advanced [Master Class]

Published on May 18, 2016 in Learn Excel, Master Class
SUMPRODUCT – Beginner to Advanced [Master Class]

This is second episode of our Monthly Master Class.

In this one, you will learn all about SUMPRODUCT. Know all about basics to advanced usage of this powerful & versatile formula in this 98 minute master class.

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How many ‘Friday the 13th’s are in this year? [Formula fun + challenge]

Published on May 13, 2016 in Excel Howtos, Learn Excel
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.

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Excel Tips, Tricks, Cheats & Hacks – Readers Edition Prequel

Published on May 12, 2016 in Excel Howtos, hacks, Huis, Posts by Hui, Quick Tip
Excel Tips, Tricks, Cheats & Hacks – Readers Edition Prequel

Over the past 3 weeks we have been able to showcase some Excel Tips, Tricks, Cheats and Hacks from some of the best excel practitioners on the net.
But now it’s your turn…

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Apply Conditional Formatting using Slicers

Apply Conditional Formatting using Slicers

Have you ever wondered about applying different Spreadsheet Formats or Styles to reports which you may be send to different people and so the styling may be different for each recipient?

I haven’t, but in this post I will show how you can add it to your worksheets.

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Extract the 10 digit number [formula homework]

Published on May 6, 2016 in Excel Challenges

Okay, time for another challenge.

Imagine you have some data like this. Each cell contains 3 numbers separated by line break  – CHAR(10) and you need to extract the number that is 10 digits long.

extract-10-digits

Go ahead and solve this riddle.

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Excel Tips, Tricks, Cheats & Hacks – Notable Excel Websites (Non-MVP) Edition

Published on May 5, 2016 in Excel Howtos, excel links, hacks, Huis, Learn Excel, Posts by Hui
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.

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