When is the next Monday? [Homework]
Psst. Hey you, yeah, you there… have time for a quick date? A date with Excel that is.
If so, take up this homework problem and post your answers in comments.
Assuming you have an input date in cell A1,
- What is the formula for finding next Monday?
- What is the formula for finding first Monday of next month?
Post your answers in comments
Which two teams qualify to next stage? [Excel Homework]
Time for some soccer fun in spreadsheets. Given a team points table like above,
How would you figure out in Excel, which teams qualify for next stage. The rules for this exercise are,
- Pick the top two teams by points
- If there is a tie, use Goal Difference (GD) to break ties (more GD is good)
- If there is a tie, use Goals For (GF) to break ties
How many Excel themed cryptic crossword clues can you solve? [Easter Eggs 2018]
It is Easter time. This is the first Easter we are celebrating in our new house. So it is bound to have so many special memories. For last 10 years (wow, it has been a decade of tradition), I have been running Excel based egg hunts every Easter. It all started in 2009, when I was living in Sweden (where Easter is a BIG thing). I had to share the enthusiasm with someone, so I made our first Easter egg hunt on the blog.
This year, join me on an Excel themed cryptic crossword clues – Easter egg hunt. Don’t forget to share your scores and explanations in the comments.
There are 5 hidden cells in this workbook – Find them all [Excel Easter Eggs]
It is Easter time, and that means time for another fun Easter Egg hunt in the spreadsheet. For the last 8 years (since 2009), I have been running Easter Egg hunt at Chandoo.org. This year too, I have prepared an exciting egg extraction enigma for you. Check it out.
Can you find all the 5 hidden cells in this workbook?
First step. Download this workbook. There are five worksheets, each containing one egg. You need to find the hidden cell in each worksheet.
How many employees are on leave during Easter holidays [Homework]
Easter is around the corner. After what seemed like weeks of lousy weather, finally the sun shone today. I capitalized on the day by skipping work, walking kids to school, taking Jo out for some shopping, enjoying a leisurely walk / cycling with Nishanth in the park and almost forgetting about the blog. But it is dark now and before tucking the kids in, let me post a short but interesting home work problem.
Let’s say you are HR manager at Egg Co. and you are looking at the vacation plans of your team.
Easter is your busiest time and it would be a bummer if a majority of your staff are on leave during the Easter season (14th of April to 28th of April, 2017). So you want to know how many people are on leave. A snapshot of your data (table name: lvs) is shown above.
Click here to download the sample file.
You want to answer below three questions:
- How many employees are on leave during Easter holidays (14th of April to 28th of April)?
- How many employees are on approved vacation during Easter holidays?
- How many employees in “Team ninja” are on approved leave during Easter holidays? Assume team employee numbers are in named range ninja
Lookup most frequent item [Homework]
Here is an interesting problem to keep your brain cells fight boredom on this Friday & weekend.
Let’s say you have some data like above.
And you want to know, for a given customer name (in cell G4),
- What is the most frequent quantity?
- What is the most often purchased item?
How would you write formulas to get these answers?
Check for two out of three conditions (Homework)
Time for some logic check.
Suppose, you have three logic values in A1:C1 (TRUE or FALSE values in each cell)
You need to find out if ONLY two of these values are TRUE.
How would you write the formula?
Got an answer? Awesome. Just post your formula in the comments. Let’s see how much variety we can get from all of our readers.