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Highlight Cells Containing Formulas In designing and auditing spreadsheets, I'd like to distinguish visually between cells containing formulas and those containing values.   |
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March 16, 2005
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Conditional Formatting in Excel Make the information in your spreadsheets more accessible with formatting based on certain conditions. |
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October 11, 2002
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Who Knew Excel Could Do That? Ten Top Tips Make your spreadsheets work harder and give them a polished look with these nifty tricks. |
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November 14, 2007
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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. |
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December 1, 2009
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Conditional Formatting in Excel Excel's conditional formatting can make spreadsheets a lot easier to interpret - -changing the text color in a cell. |
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April 6, 2004
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Fix Excel 2003's RAND Function In December, PC Magazine reader and Excel maven Earl Takasaki brought a curious Excel bug to our attention: The RAND function in Excel 2003 may return negative numbers. |
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March 2, 2004
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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
October 19, 2004
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Excel Converts Fractions to Dates How to enter numeric fractions such as 3/16 or 5/9 in Excel, without having them converted to dates such as March 16 and May 9. |
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
October 11, 2006 |
Flashing Text in Excel Make flash animation in Excel. |
PC Magazine
December 20, 2006 |
Excel Color-Coding for the Color-Blind An Excel macro to use only colors a color-blind person can differentiate. |
PC Magazine
February 16, 2005
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Problem with Excel Time Comparison How to build a formula in Microsoft Excel that produces a different answer based on time. |
PC Magazine
June 20, 2007 |
Save Time With Heading Functions in Excel Making custom applications for Excel is easier than you think. Read on to learn how. |
PC Magazine
June 1, 2008
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Easy Date and Time Entry in Excel Cut down data entry time in a flash with handy Excel tricks. |
PC Magazine
September 14, 2005
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Excel's Calendar Control Object How to add Calendar Control 11.0 to your spreadsheet. |
PC Magazine
December 9, 2003
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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
September 4, 2007
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Renaming Excel Rows and Columns Excel can optionally number the columns instead of lettering them. |
PC Magazine
August 17, 2004 |
Use a Formula as a Named Range in Excel Regarding the article "The Ultimate Sum Formula in Excel"... |
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
July 12, 2006 |
Conditional Formatting for Plotted Points in Excel Faking conditional formatting for your plots. |
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
September 27, 2006 |
Force Unique Numbers in Excel Keep duplicate numbers from being inserted into a column in Microsoft Excel. |
PC Magazine
November 30, 2005
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Office Problems, Solved! Some of the most notorious problems and the most useful tricks with Microsoft office. |
PC Magazine
January 18, 2005
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Easier Excel Fractions Regarding the PC Magazine tip about fractions in Microsoft Excel, there's another way to enter fractions directly that will both preserve the actual value of the number and autoformat the cell with a fraction format. |
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December 30, 2003
Neil J. Rubenking |
The Ultimate Sum Formula in Excel Here's how to set up a formula that will automatically adapt and sum all the cells above it, wherever it is placed. |
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May 4, 2005
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Demystifying Excel Macros Writing macros can be a challenge; learn the basics with our example. |
PC Magazine
September 4, 2007
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How to Sort by Birthday in Excel How to sort through dates while avoiding leap years. |
PC Magazine
May 16, 2007
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Analyze Data in a Cinch Excel 2007 boasts a host of new feature. Among those is PivotTable a neat and useful new way to look at your data. |
PC Magazine
August 2, 2006
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Get to Know Excel Templates Making sense of data is both the purpose of Microsoft Excel and its challenge. |
PC Magazine
July 2, 2008
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Eight Handy Tools in Excel You Probably Don't Know About These simple features in Excel will smarten up your spreadsheets in no time. |
PC Magazine
August 23, 2005
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Automating Page Breaks in Excel In the April 12 issue, your "Row-Based Page Breaks in Excel" article showed one way to create page breaks every row. Here's an Excel macro that automates the process. |
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. |
Macworld
March 2001
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Track Your Progress with Excel Formulas and Graphs Are at Your Fingertips... |
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
March 16, 2004
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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? |
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A Global Shift (of Decimals) How to move the decimal point in an array of Excel data. |
PC Magazine
January 31, 2007
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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
September 2, 2003
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Sort Thousands of Rows Individually You can run a sort operation on each row of an Excel worksheet using a handy function. |
PC Magazine
August 1, 2007
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Excel Formulas That Read Your Mind Understanding #REF! error markers in Excel formulas. |
Macworld
August 16, 2007
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Numbers '08 Numbers '08 is a strong entry for Apple in the spreadsheet arena, especially for those who find Excel's feature set overwhelming. |
PC Magazine
October 10, 2007
Gary Berline |
Excel Tip: Cell Navigation Jump easily from one cell to a non-neighboring cell. |
PC Magazine
November 11, 2003
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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
August 14, 2008
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Can't Enter Dates in Excel Solutions to Excel date problems |
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
October 1, 2003 |
Excel's Array Formulas Array formulas are a powerful addition to your Excel toolbox. We show you how to start using them. |
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January 1, 2008
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The Incredible Shrinking Excel Text Excel fonts getting a bit tiny? Here's how to keep them readable. |
CFO
June 15, 2012
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Blank Check How to get rid of pivot table blanks without affecting calculations. |
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January 12, 2005
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Mysterious Four-Year Error in Excel I have an Excel 2002 workbook with records from the past ten years. |
PC Magazine
November 28, 2007
Kyle Monson |
Adding Thousands Separators in Word In Microsoft Excel we can format numbers so they display using the thousands separator for accounting or currency. |
PC Magazine
August 12, 2008
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Those Colors Clash Matching colors between Excel 2007 and Excel 2003. |
