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Comparing Lists of Values in Excel using Array Formulas

Published on Jun 14, 2011 in Excel Howtos, Learn Excel
Comparing Lists of Values in Excel using Array Formulas

Last week, we had a home work on Calculating Donation Summaries using Excel Formulas. This is a good case where array formulas can help us. So today, we will learn how we can use Array Formulas to compare lists of values and calculate summaries. Towards the end of this post, you can see a video that explains the solution to Donation Summary Calculation problem.

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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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Advanced Sumproduct Queries

Published on May 26, 2011 in Excel Howtos, Huis, Learn Excel, Posts by Hui
Advanced Sumproduct Queries

How often have you had a simple table where you want to lookup a value or add up some values meeting a criteria?

This post looks at a simple way to do a 2D Lookup or 2D Sum of a values from within a 2D range with multiple criteria, without complex Sum, Offset, Index, Match, Sumifs or other functions, simply using Sumproduct

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Executive Review Dashboard in Excel [Dashboard Week]

Published on Mar 23, 2011 in Charts and Graphs
Executive Review Dashboard in Excel [Dashboard Week]

Purpose of the dashboard:

This is a guest article written by John for our Excel Dashboard Week.

This Dashboard was constructed for a number of reasons, one of which was to reduce the number of reports produced with the same data ( up to 6 separate files ). As we all know, when it comes to senior management and reports / files the more information they can get on one report / file the better for them. So, with this in mind I created the Dashboard to show the data they need to see “quickly” each week.

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Calculating Sum of Digits in a Number using Array Formulas [for fun]

Published on Mar 18, 2011 in Excel Howtos
Calculating Sum of Digits in a Number using Array Formulas [for fun]

Here is a fun formula to write.

Given a number in cell, I want you to find the sum of digits in it. So, for eg. if you have the number 3584398594 in a cell, the sum would be =3+5+8+4+3+9+8+5+9+4, equal to 58.

Now, how would you write a formula to find this sum automatically based on the number entered in the cell?

Go ahead and figure it out. If you can, come back and check your answer with mine below.

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Scheduling Variable Feed Sources

Published on Nov 18, 2010 in Excel Howtos, Posts by Hui
Scheduling Variable Feed Sources

In many industries, bulk commodities are received or delivered in batches or parcels of various quantities and with various properties.
This post will look at one option for scheduling these commodities within Excel.

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How to write 2 Way Lookup Formulas in Excel?

Published on Nov 9, 2010 in Learn Excel
How to write 2 Way Lookup Formulas in Excel?

Situation

So far we have seen what VLOOKUP formula is and how to put it to some nifty uses. Today, we will go one step further and learn how to do 2 Way Lookups.

What is a 2 Way Lookup?

Lookup is when you find a value in one column and get the corresponding element from other columns. 2 Way Lookup is when you lookup value at the interesection corresponding to a given row & column values.

For example, assuming you have data like below, and you want to findout how much sales Joseph made in month of March, you are essentially doing a 2 way lookup.

Read more to find how to solve this.

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6 Tips for Writing Better VLOOKUPs

Published on Nov 2, 2010 in Learn Excel
6 Tips for Writing Better VLOOKUPs

Ok, you have learned how to write vlookup formulas. You have also seen some pretty interesting examples of it (1, 2).

But how do you write better VLOOKUP formulas?

Here is a list of 6 tips that work wonders with VLOOKUP writing.

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How to Look up Based on Multiple Conditions

Published on Nov 2, 2010 in Excel Howtos, Learn Excel
How to Look up Based on Multiple Conditions

SituationNot always we want to lookup values based on one search parameter. For eg. Imagine you have data like below and you want to find how much sales Joseph made in January 2007 in North region for product “Fast car”? Read more to find how to solve this.

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Exclude Hidden Rows from Totals [How to?]

Published on May 11, 2010 in Excel Howtos, Learn Excel
Exclude Hidden Rows from Totals [How to?]

Denice, an Excel School student emailed me an interesting problem. I have a bunch of data from which I want to find the sum of values that meet a criteria. But I also want to exclude any rows that are hidden. Well, we know how to find sum of values that meet a criteria – […]

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Quarterly totals when you have multi-year data [SUMPRODUCT again]

Published on Apr 30, 2010 in Excel Howtos, Learn Excel
Quarterly totals when you have multi-year data [SUMPRODUCT again]

In yesterdays post – Find Quarterly Totals from Monthly Data, we have learned how to use SUMPRODUCT formula to find totals by Quarter from a set of monthly values. The approach is fine, but has one glaring draw back. It only works when you have data for one year. In that post, Martin said, … […]

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Find Quarterly Totals from Monthly Data [SUMPRODUCT Formula]

Published on Apr 29, 2010 in Excel Howtos, Learn Excel
Find Quarterly Totals from Monthly Data [SUMPRODUCT Formula]

Here is a problem we face very frequently. You have a list of values by months. And you want to find out the totals by Quarter. How do you go about it? There are 2 options: You can make a pivot report from the data and then group dates in that to find totals by […]

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Highlighting Repeat Customers using Conditional Formatting [Part 2 of 2]

Published on Jan 6, 2010 in excel apps, Learn Excel
Highlighting Repeat Customers using Conditional Formatting [Part 2 of 2]

This is second part of 2 part series on conditionally formatting dates in excel.

Highlighting Repeat Customers using Conditional FormattingIn yesterday’s post we have learned how to conditionally format dates using excel. In this article, you will learn how to use these conditional formatting tricks to highlight repeat customers in a list of sales records.

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Christmas Gift List – Set your budget and track gifts using Excel

Published on Dec 7, 2009 in excel apps, Learn Excel
Christmas Gift List – Set your budget and track gifts using Excel

Steven, one of our readers from England sent me a Christmas gift tracker worksheet. I found it pretty cool, so made some minor changes to it and sharing it with you all so that you can have great time shopping for the holidays.

The workbook is full of lessons on conditional formatting, cell formatting, using formulas. Go ahead and download it today.

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What is Excel SUMPRODUCT formula and how to use it?

Published on Nov 10, 2009 in Featured, Learn Excel
What is Excel SUMPRODUCT formula and how to use it?

Today we will learn a new and exciting excel formula – the all powerful SUMPRODUCT.

At the outset SUMPRODUCT formula may not seem like all that useful. But once you understand how excel works with lists (or arrays) of data, the SUMPRODUCT’s relevance becomes crystal clear.

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