January is a time when many of us take a breath and collectively endure the ritual of setting goals for the coming year. The custom is commonly regarded as a positive tradition and either taken for granted or at least in good humor. But where does the idea of setting goals come from in the…
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If you have spent any time in corporate life you are probably familiar with the concepts of goal setting, S.M.A.R.T. goals and so on. While you may know that those who engage in a deliberate process of identifying and setting goals are more successful overall than those who don’t, you may not know is that…
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As Excel users, we’re never satisfied! We see a powerful function like COUNTIF that gives us the ability to find and tally data based on a huge assortment of specified criteria and we still want more. Namely, the ability to count our data based on multiple criteria specifications. COUNTIF a value is greater than 10…
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Pie charts, bar charts and line charts are familiar friends to Excel users. But there’s a less well-known chart out there that can pack a lot of information into a single, visually powerful image. The Radar Chart, also sometimes called a spider or star chart, lets you compare multiple items against multiple criteria. You could…
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Once you have spent the time crunching numbers and creating a beautiful chart in Excel, you’ll probably find that you want to use it again and again in reports and presentations. Microsoft makes it easy to share objects between its Office programs, but few methods are easier than Copy/Paste. We are going to look at…
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Excel’s Slicer Filter was added in Excel 2010 and enhanced in Excel 2013. This useful feature is excellent for viewing and comparing varied combinations of your data with a simple click. Something like a cross between a button and a filter, Slicers have become a prized tool for analyzing large data sets in dashboards and…
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Much of spreadsheet data is a collection of individual transactions or instances that don’t begin to offer meaning until they are organized and summarized in useful ways. Enter Excel’s handy COUNTIF function. When categories of data are mixed together, or if you wish to understand your data based on certain criteria, COUNTIF can help you…
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Once you learn how to create an Excel PivotTable, you’ll discover that organizing your information is only the first step in getting the most out of this useful feature. PivotTables then give you the ability to further manipulate the organized information. Value Field Settings let you perform different types of summarizations. Calculated Fields and Calculated…
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Excel includes powerful sort functionality in the Sort & Filter group on the Data tab. But what if your data changes frequently, or if you’re simply tired of clicking through the Ribbon each time you generate a similar table? The answer might be to create a formula that does your sorting work for you. As…
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About Excel’s INDEX Function Sometimes useful functions like VLOOKUP just don’t apply when the information you need is more about where in your table the information is than what the information is. The INDEX function returns the value of an element that is specified by position (row and column) in an array or table. You…
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