How to Add Cells in Excel to Sum Up Totals Automatically
Excel’s great for displaying data and even better at crunching numbers. Here’s how to add cells in Excel to sum up totals automatically… Even when you change the numbers. A great feature that Excel has...
View ArticleCopy a Worksheet Picture in Excel 2003 or Excel 2008
There’s a neat trick you can use to copy a picture of a spreadsheet in Excel 2003 or Excel 2008 for Mac. It’s great for getting a spreadsheet snapshot into your presentation software. First you select...
View ArticleMy Spreadsheet Challenge Picture
Here’s the picture I entered for the Spreadsheet Challenge. I’ll point out the obvious and not so obvious stuff in this picture. Me Two monitors showing Excel 2007, Excel 2003, and Excel 2010...
View ArticleCalculate the Xth Weekday of Any Month in Excel
I’ve a simple formula for calculating the Xth Weekday of ANY month. It takes four inputs: Year, Month, Week, and Day. And requires a couple of lookup tables for data validation, one with special...
View ArticleRecently Used File List in Excel
How many files will Excel show in the Recently Used File List? Well, it depends on the version of Excel you’re using and vary between 9 and ninety-nine files. Here is a list of Excel versions, menu...
View ArticleWhat Version of Excel am I Using?
If you’re curious about the version of Excel you’re using and don’t know how to go about it, you’ve come to the right place. It could be as simple as selecting the Help Menu and clicking About...
View ArticleCreate a List in Excel 2003
The forerunner of the modern Excel Table is know as a List Object. Excel 2003 has this feature, and I’ll simply refer to it here as a List. To create a List in Excel 2003, select your existing data...
View ArticleAn Excel Crossroads – Mac and Windows
I bought a MacBook Pro and installed Windows 7 with Boot Camp Assistant so I could access the “normal” Excel. This was important to me at the time because I was doing Excel development work in versions...
View ArticleCheck the Analysis ToolPak Add-In in Excel 2003 [VBA Code]
I recently began using the NETWORKDAYS function in Excel 2007, yet my file was going to be widely used by people with Excel 2003 (both are Windows versions). The NETWORKDAYS function is a standard...
View ArticleHow to Update a List or Range without OFFSET
I avoid the use of Volatile Functions, especially OFFSET, which is commonly used to update a list or range. They can slow down the operation of your workbook. For very large workbooks with lots of...
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