Thanks half a million… (and 2 excel tips)

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I have a happy news to share with you!!!

For the first time since starting this website, we got 500,000 + page views in the month of September 2010. Half-a-million!

Thank you so much.

Chandoo.org received half-a-million visits in month of Sept 2010. Thank you.

To put this in context, in Sept 2009, we got 245,000 views. Traffic grew by more than 100% in last 12 months.

And the 340 students who signed up for excel school 3rd batch put a cherry on top with strong revenues.

I just want to take a minute and say how much I am thankful to you. Each day, you inspire me to learn new things about Excel. Your quest for knowledge keeps me motivated. I am fortunate to have found you, my dear reader, to share what I know and learn from you thru comments, emails, forum discussions, phone calls and tweets.

2 Bonus Excel Tips

Of course, I wouldn’t want a Friday to be wasted in silly navel gazing at website stats. So, I have 2 excel tips for you.

1. How to show numbers in millions?

  1. Numbers in Millions- Excel howto?Simple. Select the cell(s) with numbers in them.
  2. Hit CTRL+1 (or goto format cells)
  3. Now, from number tab, select custom.
  4. Use the format code ,,0.0 ” mn” to show values in millions. Custom cell formatting code for numbers in millions For eg. 1,500,000 would show up as 1.5 mn.

Showing values as millions in charts2. How to show values in millions in charts?

  1. Select value axis of chart and hit CTRL+1 (or go to format axis)
  2. Set the option “display values as” to Millions and you are done!

More quick tips & custom cell formatting tips.

Thank you once again. You have a beautiful weekend.

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    Hi from Argentina, I follow you for a lot of years now. We here are in a quarantine for 2 or 3 weeks, because the pandemia.
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