Category: Excel

Excel Videos

I just recently taught my course on "Building Spreadsheets That Last". In it, I actually show a video that was written by Ross on Workbook Structure protection. I like Ross's video, as it shows some interesting tricks with the features.

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The best line of VBA ever

Okay, I'll admit that you probably have to be a parent of a young child to agree with this, but here it is: [code]Application.Speech.Speak Target[/code] This all started when I showed my kid how fast the computer could count to

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Always Refer to the Cell Above

Introduction How many times have you built a table of data, and put totals on it. You ship it out the door, and another user comes along and inserts a new row right before the totals row? If you have

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Using Styles in Excel – Why and How

What are Styles? A style is pre-defined set of formatting instructions held together in one convenient package. They can be configured to apply one, two or many formatting characteristics, and can be applied to a worksheet cell or range very

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Understanding Dates in Excel

What are dates? This may seem like a strange thing to ask but, as far as Excel is concerned, dates are numbers. By storing them as such, it gives us the ability to add or subtract days to/from a date,

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Forms Controls in Excel

Introduction: This article covers the basics of using Form Controls in an Excel worksheet, and originated from one of my blog posts, which can be found here. While I don't tend to use Form Controls a great deal, they are

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