Category: Excel

Excel Power Map Sample

Yesterday, Microsoft released a preview of Power Map; a geo-spatial mapping Excel add-in, formerly know as GeoFlow.  It’s a pretty cool add-in that allows you to plot data based on geographic identifiers (longitude, latitude, country name, town names, postal codes,

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Giving PowerPivot a Keyboard Shortcut

When I was down at Microsoft for the MVP Summit, I suggested that, as the “other most powerful part of Excel” that PowerPivot, like the Visual Basic Editor, should be given it’s own keyboard shortcut.  Since Alt + F12 is

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Temperature Forecast Chart

Some of the really cool charts that we can build in Excel involve the trick of combining multiple chart types together to make them happen. In this article, we’ll build one of those; a temperature chart that not only shows

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VLOOKUP for Pictures

Something that can be very handy when you’re building a dashboard is to return a certain picture depending on a condition. We can use VLOOKUP to look up data in a table and return the corresponding value from a different

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My Workbook Got Stuck in a Cyclone!

I thought I actually posted about this some time back, but I don't see it. It's driven me nuts before, and is doing it again. I have to print out our massive financial model for a meeting tomorrow. It's almost

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Updating Page Sizes

This drives me crazy. I'm not sure if it was the move to Excel 2013, or if it was something else… I have this massive model, and we print it out on 11x17 paper. Somewhere, sometime, Excel decided that this

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