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Amount Donated vs. Pledged [Excel Formula Homework]

Published on Jun 10, 2011 in Excel Challenges
Amount Donated vs. Pledged [Excel Formula Homework]

We have some home work folks! Today, lets test your Excel formula skills by giving some data related to a fund.

The problem:
You manage a fund for a non-profit. You have donors who pledge certain amount at the start of the year. As you go thru the year, the donors donate money to your fund. At the end of the year, you have a table like above. And you need to summarize the fund’s performance by calculating various statistics.

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How Would You Visualize Product Sales Data? [Excel Challenges #2]

Published on May 30, 2011 in Charts and Graphs, Excel Challenges
How Would You Visualize Product Sales Data? [Excel Challenges #2]

We have a new Excel Challenge folks!

I know our friends in US are away celebrating Memorial Day weekend. But that should not leave rest of us from fun. So, we have a new Excel Challenge. This time, you need to make a chart, to visualize product sales data.

And what more, one lucky person could get an Amazon Kindle Reading Device (Wi-fi version) by making the chart.

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Excel Challenge #1 – Make Nuts without Going Nuts

Published on Mar 9, 2011 in Excel Challenges, Learn Excel
Excel Challenge #1 – Make Nuts without Going Nuts

We have a new series on chandoo.org. – Excel Challenges. From now, every 1-2 months, I will post an interesting Excel Challenge. These are tricky problems for which elegant solutions should be found. To keep the challenges exciting, we will have a small prize for a winner (if more people answer correctly, we pick one randomly)

Excel Challenge #1 – Find Overlaps in Machine Schedule Dates

We have an Excel Table, with the following data (snapshot above). You need to write formulas to display Ok or Not Ok in the adjacent column based on the following criteria:

1. Display Ok if the scheduling dates for that row do not overlap with remaining scheduling dates for that machine
2. Display Not Ok otherwise.

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