“How Trump happened” in Excel [visualizations]
During last week, an alert reader of our blog, Jørgen emailed me a link to “How Trump happened“. It is an interactive visualization by Wall Street Journal. Jørgen asked me if we could replicate the visualization in Excel. My response: “Making a new chart in Excel? Hell yeah!”
Read on for awesome visualizations and full explanation.
Transpose this address data [VBA homework]
Here is an interesting problem to keep you busy.
Transpose the address data in column A into the format indicated in C:G using either VBA, formulas or Power Query. Once done, post your answers in comments section.
Happy Diwali for all our readers – Animated Flower Pot Cracker in Excel for you…
Today is Diwali, the festival of lights. I wish you and your family a happy, bright and prosperous festive time. May your house shower with lots of light, laughter and love.
Diwali is one of my favorite festivals. It is a time when all family members get together, eat delicious food, laugh to hearts content and light up diyas (small oil lamps) to celebrate the victory of good over evil. This year, my kids (who are 6 yrs btw) are very excited about the festival. They are looking forward to lighting up diyas and crackers (fire works).
To celebrate the holiday, I made something for you.
An animated flower pot firework in Excel.
Save a range as text file using VBA [tutorial]
Last night I asked members of our Chandoo.org facebook page to share an Excel problem you are struggling with. Francis asked,
How to save a file as .txt in vba without quotes? When I save as .txt, the file has got quotes inside of it. I used the code Print, but it didnt work because the file loses its delimitation.
Does anyone know how to solve this?
Let’s understand how to save a range as text and overcome the double quote problem.
CP047: Best Excel tools for Entrepreneurs
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In the 47th session of Chandoo.org podcast, let’s see how Excel can make you an awesome entrepreneur.
What is in this session?
In this podcast,
- Why Excel for entrepreneurs
- Key areas of a business owner’s work
- Projects & to dos
- Finances
- Customers & marketing
- Planning & strategy
- Processes & workflows
- 5 features of Excel that help
- Conclusions
Build models & dashboards faster with Watch Window
Here is a familiar scenario: You are building a dashboard. Naturally, it has a few worksheets – data, assumptions, calculations and output. As you make changes to input data, you constantly switch to calculations (or output) page to check if the numbers are calculating as desired. This back and forth is slows you down.
Use Watch Window to reduce development time.
CP043: My favorite time saving features of Excel, Revealed.
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In the 43rd session of Chandoo.org podcast, let’s talk about top time saving features of Excel.
What is in this session?
In this podcast,
- Quick announcement about Awesome August
- My 9 favorite time saving features of Excel
- Remove Duplicates
- Tables
- Pivot Tables
- Auto fill
- Format Painter
- Find & Replace
- VBA / Macro Recorder
- Auto save
- Auto complete / Intellisence
- Recap & Conclusions