Learn Excel Videos

Harold from Tulsa asked how to write a macro to simulate double-clicking the fill handle. Episode 1152 shows you how.

How can you add a watermark behind your spreadsheet? It is not obvious, but Episode 1151 shows you a couple of methods.

In Episode 1150, I wanted to add data bars to a series of words.

Wang asks how to change part of one data label to be red. Unfortunately, the label is then broken. A macro should solve this, but it does not. Episode 1147 discusses this problem.

Mark asks how to fill blanks in with the data from above. Now...if you've watched this podcast, you've seen the trick for this, but Mark's data has something preventing Go To Special Blanks from working! So - another way to go. Episode 1146 shows you how.

Diane from Michigan wants to split a column of names into two columns. Episode 1145 shows two approaches and the problems with each.

Michael from Kansas City asks how to build a floating quartile chart. Episode 1143 shows you how.

Martin from Sweden sends in a question about doing a range VLOOKUP where the lookup table is not sorted. Mike and Bill duel it out in today's Episode 1144.

You can specify up to eight colors in the custom number format box. But wait...you can actually do all 56 colors from the Excel 2003 color palette! Episode 1142 shows you how.

A cool way to streamline a VBA loop using SpecialCells. Episode 1140 shows you how.

Rob from Cambridge needs to divide nine cells by nine other cells and sum them up. In Episode 1141, we look at an array formula to solve this problem.

A viewer from Portugal sends in a question about finding which row contains the match. Episode 1139 shows you a few ways to go!

Rod from Cincinati asks how to solve the problem of trailing spaces in the lookup table. I had never tried it before, but you can apply a TRIM to the entire lookup table. Episode 1138 shows you how.

In Episode 1137, a cool way to remove all hyperlinks from a spreadsheet.

Mary from Louisiana passes along a cool tip for applying AutoFilter dropdowns to a subset of your records. Episode 1136 shows you how.

Mary from Louisiana passes along a cool tip for applying AutoFilter dropdowns to a subset of your records. Episode 1136 shows you how.

Nick asks how to do a pretty lengthy bonus calculation. It might be too complex for the Excel 2003 nested IF limit, so I decided to use the range version of VLOOKUP. But...as a twist, I embed the table right in the formula. Episode 1135 shows you how.

A dueling podcast...how to find the first week of the month. Mike and Bill show you various ways in Episode 1129.

The last in my series of podcasts about GetPivotData. Today, we see how to use GetPivotData to overcome all the bad stuff in a pivot table. Episode 1128 shows you how.