VLOOKUP(), MATCH() and INDEX() – explained in plain English
VLOOKUP may not make you tall, rich and famous, but learning it can certainly give you wings. It makes you to connect two different tabular lists and saves a ton of time. In my opinion understanding VLOOKUP, INDEX and MATCH worksheet formulas can transform you from normal excel user to a data processing beast. Today, […]
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?
New Improved Version of Excel Formula Help
Good news!!! We have upgraded the excel formula help page to a new, more easily accessible and better laid out page. Find out more…
PHD Excel Formula Helper – Now an E-Book
Remember the PHD Excel Formula Helper Tool? Good, now it is available as an e-book, so that you can take a print out of all the formulas or save it on your disk and learn formulas at leisure.
For 5 $ you can buy this e-book and read it at your leisure.
Excel Basics – What are Combination Charts and How to Make One?
A combination chart is when you combine two different charts to make one. A popular example for combination chart is a line & bar graph combination.
Use Alt+Enter to get multiple lines in a cell [spreadcheats]
A very quick spreadcheat for Friday. If you need to type content in a cell and you want to see it multiple lines then use alt + enter to break the content in several lines. See to the right for an example.
Bonus tip: If you are using formulas to create content in a cell by combining various text values and you want to introduce line breaks at certain points … For eg. you are creating an address field by combining house number, street name, city and zip code and you want to introduce line breaks after house number and street name then you can use CHAR(10).
Custom Views in Excel – Save filter and header settings for quick reference
PHD reader and commenter Vishy contributed this post through e-mail. Thank you so much Vishy for this very useful tip. The Problem: You have created a specific view of your data in Excel (say by filtering, zooming out, changing column width, hiding specific rows, customizing window settings, print settings etc.). This is your reference point […]