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PC Magazine December 1, 2009 Neil J. Rubenking |
Conditional Formatting in Excel Excel's conditional formatting can make spreadsheets a lot easier to interpret - -changing the text color in a cell. |
PC Magazine November 14, 2007 Neil J. Rubenking |
Find Unique Rows in Excel Stop searching for new or special entries in Excel by telling the software to how to do the hunting and highlighting for you. |
PC Magazine March 16, 2005 Helen Bradley |
Conditional Formatting in Excel Make the information in your spreadsheets more accessible with formatting based on certain conditions. |
PC World October 11, 2002 John Walkenbach |
Who Knew Excel Could Do That? Ten Top Tips Make your spreadsheets work harder and give them a polished look with these nifty tricks. |
PC Magazine May 18, 2004 Neil J. Rubenking |
Another Way to Highlight Formulas Expert advice on highlighting cells containing formulas in Excel. |
PC Magazine September 21, 2004 |
Shuffle Numbers in Excel This is an easy way to generate a non-repeating list of random numbers. |
PC Magazine September 27, 2006 |
Force Unique Numbers in Excel Keep duplicate numbers from being inserted into a column in Microsoft Excel. |
PC Magazine March 6, 2007 |
Analyze Multiple Worksheets in Excel Combine long lists of items from about a dozen different workbooks into one Excel worksheet, without duplicating entries. |
PC Magazine November 14, 2007 Sarah Pike |
Excel Tip: Rearrange Data Data is much easier to manipulate when Excel can help with the sorting. |
PC Magazine September 21, 2004 |
A Subtle Bug in Excel Pivot Tables A reader discovers an unusual Excel 2003 flaw, and we have a demonstration. |
CFO April 15, 2012 Bill Jelen |
A Global Shift (of Decimals) How to move the decimal point in an array of Excel data. |
PC Magazine April 20, 2005 Neil J. Rubenking |
Insert Alternate Blank Rows in Excel I have an Excel report that fills about 1,000 rows. I want to insert a blank row between each of these rows. Obviously, I know how to insert a row one at a time, but is there a quicker way to do this? |
PC Magazine August 3, 2004 |
Convert a Tabular Word Document to Excel Is it possible to convert a Word document to an Excel spreadsheet when the Word document has columns of numbers? |
PC Magazine March 2, 2004 Neil J. Rubenking |
Transform Forced Text to Numbers in Excel One of my clients sends me Microsoft Excel files in which all the columns are in text format, even when they contain only numbers. What is the easiest way to correct the number formatting? |
PC Magazine July 2, 2008 Neil J. Rubenking |
Eight Handy Tools in Excel You Probably Don't Know About These simple features in Excel will smarten up your spreadsheets in no time. |
Macworld March 2001 James Bradbury |
Track Your Progress with Excel Formulas and Graphs Are at Your Fingertips... |
PC Magazine May 18, 2005 Neil J. Rubenking |
Convert Blank Cells to Zeros in Excel In Excel, is there any way to select a range of cells and tell Excel to fill the blank cells with the value zero? |
PC Magazine June 18, 2008 Neil J. Rubenking |
Tech Tip: Cell Couture Tips for working with Excel. |
PC Magazine August 17, 2005 Neil J. Rubenking |
Protect Shared Documents I want to protect Microsoft Word and Excel files from any changes when I send them to other people. Is there some way to lock the format and content when I send them to others? |
PC Magazine November 25, 2003 |
Joining Columns that Include Dates Our Excel merge tip works with any two columns of data, but the formula changes a bit when you're working with dates. |
PC Magazine January 1, 2008 Neil J. Rubenking |
The Incredible Shrinking Excel Text Excel fonts getting a bit tiny? Here's how to keep them readable. |
PC Magazine June 1, 2008 Neil J. Rubenking |
Easy Date and Time Entry in Excel Cut down data entry time in a flash with handy Excel tricks. |
PC Magazine September 4, 2007 Neil Rubenking |
How to Sort by Birthday in Excel How to sort through dates while avoiding leap years. |
PC Magazine July 12, 2006 |
Conditional Formatting for Plotted Points in Excel Faking conditional formatting for your plots. |
PC Magazine February 16, 2005 Neil J. Rubenking |
Problem with Excel Time Comparison How to build a formula in Microsoft Excel that produces a different answer based on time. |
PC Magazine August 23, 2005 Ben Z. Gottesman |
Finding Hidden Columns in Excel I somehow lost several of the leftmost columns in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and have been unable to make them visible again. How can I get these lost columns back? |
PC Magazine January 31, 2007 Helen Bradley |
Introducing Excel 2007 Along with its new interface, Microsoft Excel 2007 offers several subtle improvements to those spreadsheet tools you use every day. |
PC Magazine November 14, 2007 Helen Bradley |
Fast Data Entry in Excel Anytime you can enter data without having to type it yourself, you improve accuracy and save yourself effort. There are plenty of opportunities in Excel to enter data in a faster and smarter way than via the keyboard. |
PC Magazine February 8, 2008 Neil J. Rubenking |
Turn Excel Data and Charts into JPEGs Create figures or a movie from Excel charts. |
PC Magazine November 11, 2003 Neil J. Rubenking |
Fixing an Excel Formula I have created several Excel 2000 worksheets that use the VLOOKUP formula to get information from one central worksheet. Now I need to add columns to the root worksheet. |
PC Magazine April 6, 2004 Helen Bradley |
Better Lists in Excel Excel 2003 offers some useful new tools for working with lists. |
PC Magazine January 18, 2005 Neil J. Rubenking |
Print a Watermark on Excel Worksheet I often create information in Microsoft Excel 2002 that needs to be used before it is complete. I would like to overlay a message such as "INCOMPLETE" in large text across an entire page. |
PC Magazine January 12, 2005 Neil J. Rubenking |
Mysterious Four-Year Error in Excel I have an Excel 2002 workbook with records from the past ten years. |
PC Magazine May 18, 2005 Neil J. Rubenking |
Advanced Find and Replace in Word The Find and Replace function in Microsoft Word is extremely useful, but I can't always make it work the way I want. |
PC Magazine November 16, 2005 Neil J. Rubenking |
Import Over 256 Columns in Excel How to a list of more than 256 items into excel. |
PC Magazine January 10, 2007 |
Copy Only Subtotals in Excel A way to copy just the results of a subtotal display to other cells in an Excel spreadsheet. |
PC Magazine September 16, 2003 Helen Bradley |
15 Great Excel Tips Microsoft Excel is jam-packed with functions that perform a range of handy calculations and tests. We take a look at 15 Excel functions you may not know about and show you some clever ways to put them to work on your data. |
PC Magazine September 14, 2005 Neil J. Rubenking |
Excel's Calendar Control Object How to add Calendar Control 11.0 to your spreadsheet. |
PC Magazine November 2, 2005 Neil J. Rubenking |
Word Document with Linked Excel Data Linking excel data to word documents while maintaining word formatting. |
PC Magazine October 14, 2003 Neil J. Rubenking |
Absolute and Relative References in Excel Avoid error messages in your formulas by using the $ character to indicate cell references that should never change. |
PC Magazine December 9, 2003 Brickley & Cutting |
Automate Long Fills In Excel It's easy to create a macro that takes the hassle out of filling large ranges in Excel. |
PC Magazine August 3, 2004 |
Counting Unique Names in Excel, Reloaded How to count unique names in excel using pivot tables. |
PC Magazine September 4, 2007 Neil Rubenking |
Sort on More Than Three Columns The how and why to sort data with more than three columns in Excel. |
PC Magazine October 10, 2007 Neil J. Rubenking |
"Copy Only Subtotals in Excel" Revisited Multiple solutions to the same problem. |
PC Magazine August 12, 2008 M. David Stone |
Those Colors Clash Matching colors between Excel 2007 and Excel 2003. |
PC Magazine September 2, 2003 Neil J. Rubenking |
Sort Thousands of Rows Individually You can run a sort operation on each row of an Excel worksheet using a handy function. |
PC Magazine November 30, 2005 Edward Mendelson |
Office Problems, Solved! Some of the most notorious problems and the most useful tricks with Microsoft office. |
PC Magazine October 28, 2003 Neil J. Rubenking |
Averages Without Extremes In Excel "I have a column in Excel that contains account balances. I would like to find the average balance after throwing out the one or two highest and one or two lowest values." A solution. |
CFO June 15, 2012 Bill Jelen |
Blank Check How to get rid of pivot table blanks without affecting calculations. |
PC Magazine March 16, 2004 Neil J. Rubenking |
Count Unique Names in Excel I have a list of some 900,000 names in an Excel worksheet. Most of the names have duplicates. How can I count the number of names without counting duplicate entries? |