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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?   |
PC Magazine
April 6, 2004
Helen Bradley |
Better Lists in Excel Excel 2003 offers some useful new tools for working with lists. |
PC Magazine
April 6, 2004
Neil J. Rubenking |
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. |
PC Magazine
August 3, 2004 |
Counting Unique Names in Excel, Reloaded How to count unique names in excel using pivot tables. |
PC Magazine
May 16, 2007
Helen Bradley |
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
September 21, 2004 |
A Subtle Bug in Excel Pivot Tables A reader discovers an unusual Excel 2003 flaw, and we have a demonstration. |
PC Magazine
July 1, 2003
Neil J. Rubenking |
Filtering with Excel's PivotTable Is there a way to count the number of occurrences of each name in an Excel column? |
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
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. |
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. |
Macworld
March 2001
James Bradbury |
Track Your Progress with Excel Formulas and Graphs Are at Your Fingertips... |
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
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
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
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 4, 2004
Neil J. Rubenking |
Sorting Text in Excel Reordering words is more complicated than numbers. Here's a procedure that works. |
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
August 17, 2004 |
Use a Formula as a Named Range in Excel Regarding the article "The Ultimate Sum Formula in Excel"... |
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
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
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
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
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
April 4, 2007 |
Making Excel Remember More Data Using excel to find linking values of data. |
PC Magazine
May 31, 2006 |
Pick Lottery Numbers With Excel Using the LARGE() function in Excel. |
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
September 14, 2005
Neil J. Rubenking |
Excel's Calendar Control Object How to add Calendar Control 11.0 to your spreadsheet. |
PC Magazine
September 7, 2004
Helen Bradley |
Mapping Your Data If your Excel presentation contains geographical data, why not display it on a map? |
PC Magazine
April 20, 2005
Helen Bradley |
Outlining Your Data Use Excel's Group and Outline feature to view only as much data as you need. |
PC Magazine
September 14, 2005
Ben Z. Gottesman |
PivotTable Magic Exploring complex Excel data is easier with a PivotTable. Our tips show you how. |
PC Magazine
October 10, 2007
Neil J. Rubenking |
"Copy Only Subtotals in Excel" Revisited Multiple solutions to the same problem. |
PC Magazine
June 1, 2005
Neil J. Rubenking |
Annoying Office Clipboard When I copy cells in Microsoft Excel, after the second copy action in a worksheet the clipboard panel pops up on the right and shrinks the visible portion of my worksheet. How can I disable this feature? |
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. |
CFO
August 1, 2012
Bill Jelen |
A Refreshing Change How to hold on to your updates when you correct a pivot table. |
PC Magazine
September 27, 2006 |
Force Unique Numbers in Excel Keep duplicate numbers from being inserted into a column in Microsoft Excel. |
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 16, 2004
Neil J. Rubenking |
Copy Only Values in Excel A simple technique lets you grab just the data from a spreadsheet. |
CFO
June 15, 2012
Bill Jelen |
Blank Check How to get rid of pivot table blanks without affecting calculations. |
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
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? |
The Motley Fool
June 8, 2010
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Make Your Checkbook Work for You Hate math? This easy, automated checkbook crunches numbers for you. |
PC Magazine
May 18, 2004
Neil J. Rubenking |
Another Way to Highlight Formulas Expert advice on highlighting cells containing formulas in Excel. |
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
July 12, 2006 |
Conditional Formatting for Plotted Points in Excel Faking conditional formatting for your plots. |
PC Magazine
February 17, 2004
Neil J. Rubenking |
Save a Multipage Image in Excel What do you do when you want to grab a screen image, but some of the data you want is off-screen? |
PC Magazine
January 12, 2005
Helen Bradley |
Going in Style You know how useful styles are for formatting Word documents; did you know they're available in Excel as well? |
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
May 17, 2006 |
Excel Filter Problem Resolved Making the count of matching items in Excel using it's Auto-Filter feature appear in the status bar at bottom left. |
PC Magazine
May 16, 2007 |
How Excel Formulas Can Reference Comments How to carry non-cell data from one Excel worksheet to another. |
PC Magazine
September 4, 2007
Neil Rubenking |
How to Sort by Birthday in Excel How to sort through dates while avoiding leap years. |
