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Dueling Excel - Chart Titles: Podcast #1409

MrExcel East — Fri, 20 May 2011 14:03:40 +0000

Finishing off the ‘Learn Excel with MrExcel Podcast Series’ on Charting Basics this week, Mike “ExcelIsFun” Girvin and Bill “MrExcel” Jelen look at The Title of the Chart we’ve created. Today, in Episode #1409, Bill shows us how to use Data from the Chart itself to Create a Dynamic Chart Title and Mike shows us two (2) variations on the theme. Also, in Episode #1409, you will learn a few Shortcuts and a few tips on better navigating the Excel 2010 User Interface while working with your Chart.

Dueling Excel Podcast #80…This episode is the video podcast companion to the book, “Slaying Excel Dragons: A Beginners Guide to Conquering Excel’s Frustrations and Making Excel Fun“, by Mike Girvin and Bill Jelen. [Currently available in eBook / Print Edition and as a DVD Bundle]

and

“Excel 2010 In Depth“, by Bill Jelen a.k.a. MrExcel.

Go Back to The Beginning of Excel Charting Basics

For all of your Microsoft Excel needs visit MrExcel.com – Your One Stop for Excel Tips and Solutions.

Dueling Excel - Percent of Parent: Podcast #1404

MrExcel East — Fri, 13 May 2011 15:21:19 +0000

Another Dueling Excel Podcast with Mike “ExcelIsFun” Girvin and Bill “MrExcel” Jelen. Today, in Episode #1404, Mike and Bill look at finding the Percent of the Parent Row Total in Excel 2003, Excel 2007 and Excel 2010 using Formulas, PowerPivot and some easy to learn techniques.

Dueling Excel Podcast #79…This episode is the video podcast companion to the book, “Slaying Excel Dragons: A Beginners Guide to Conquering Excel’s Frustrations and Making Excel Fun“, by Mike Girvin and Bill Jelen. [Currently available in eBook / Print Edition and as a DVD Bundle]

and

“Excel 2010 In Depth“, by Bill Jelen a.k.a. MrExcel.

For all of your Microsoft Excel needs visit MrExcel.com – Your One Stop for Excel Tips and Solutions.

Dueling Excel - Top 2 Part II: Podcast #1399

MrExcel East — Fri, 06 May 2011 16:56:28 +0000

In Part I of “Top 2 by Industry”, Episode #1394, Mike “ExcelIsFun” Girvin and Bill “MrExcel” Jelen showed us how to get the result. Today, in Episode #1399, Mike and Bill revisit the Top 2 method to compare formula methods for locating the top 2 amounts by industry.

Dueling Excel Podcast #78…This episode is the video podcast companion to the book, “Slaying Excel Dragons: A Beginners Guide to Conquering Excel’s Frustrations and Making Excel Fun“, by Mike Girvin and Bill Jelen. [Currently available in eBook / Print Edition and as a DVD Bundle]

and

“Excel 2010 In Depth“, by Bill Jelen a.k.a. MrExcel.

For all of your Microsoft Excel needs visit MrExcel.com – Your One Stop for Excel Tips and Solutions.

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Duel 77: Top 2 by Industry: Podcast #1394

MrExcel East — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:44:26 +0000

Alex asks how to identify the top 2 amounts by industry. Today, in Episode #1394, Mike “ExcelIsFun” Girvin and Bill “MrExcel” Jelen show us how its done.

Dueling Excel Podcast #77…This episode is the video podcast companion to the book, “Slaying Excel Dragons: A Beginners Guide to Conquering Excel’s Frustrations and Making Excel Fun“, by Mike Girvin and Bill Jelen. [Currently available in eBook / Print Edition and as a DVD Bundle]

AND

“Excel 2010 In Depth“, by Bill Jelen a.k.a. MrExcel.

For all of your Microsoft Excel needs visit MrExcel.com – Your One Stop for Excel Tips and Solutions.

Dueling Excel - Add A Hyperlinked TOC: Podcast #1389

MrExcel East — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 14:31:05 +0000

Dueling Excel #76 looks at Creating a Table of Contents for your workbook. Hyperlinks that work within the confines of your workbook allowing you to navigate throughout. Today, in Episode #1389, Mike “ExcelIsFun” Girvin and Bill “MrExcel” Jelen show us how to make Navigating a Workbook easier using both manual and coded means. Learn a few shortcuts, learn a little VBA and see how easy all of it is!

Dueling Excel Podcast #76…This episode is the video podcast companion to the book, “Slaying Excel Dragons: A Beginners Guide to Conquering Excel’s Frustrations and Making Excel Fun“, by Mike Girvin and Bill Jelen. [Currently available in eBook / Print Edition and as a DVD Bundle]

AND

“Excel 2010 In Depth“, by Bill Jelen a.k.a. MrExcel.

For all of your Microsoft Excel needs visit MrExcel.com – Your One Stop for Excel Tips and Solutions.

Dueling Excel - Dynamic Validation VLOOKUP: Podcast #1379

MrExcel East — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 15:10:54 +0000

Today’s Dueling Podcast Question: “Can there be Dynamic Ranges for VLOOKUP and Data Validation List for an Invoice?” In Episode #1379, Mike “ExcelIsFun” Girvin and Bill “MrExcel” Jelen take a look at using Table Nomenclature in Validation and in VLOOKUP.

Dueling Excel Podcast #74…This episode is the video podcast companion to the book, “Slaying Excel Dragons: A Beginners Guide to Conquering Excel’s Frustrations and Making Excel Fun“, by Mike Girvin and Bill Jelen. [Currently available in eBook / Print Edition and as a DVD Bundle]

AND

“Excel 2010 In Depth“, by Bill Jelen a.k.a. MrExcel.

For all of your Microsoft Excel needs visit MrExcel.com – Your One Stop for Excel Tips and Solutions.

Dueling Excel - Hours Worked: Podcast #1374

MrExcel East — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:25:59 +0000

Thomas asks if there is a better way to calculate Hours Worked. Thomas’ data is imported into Excel, from a web application, as Text. Today, in Episode #1374, Mike “ExcelIsFun” Girvin and Bill “MrExcel” Jelen try alternate formulas to solve the problem for Thomas.

Dueling Excel Podcast #73…This episode is the video podcast companion to the book, “Slaying Excel Dragons: A Beginners Guide to Conquering Excel’s Frustrations and Making Excel Fun“, by Mike Girvin and Bill Jelen. [Currently available as an eBook / Print Edition]

AND

“Excel 2010 In Depth“, by Bill Jelen a.k.a. MrExcel.

For all of your Microsoft Excel needs visit MrExcel.com – Your One Stop for Excel Tips and Solutions.

Dueling Excel - Data Bars: Podcast #1369

MrExcel East — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:58:11 +0000

Today’s Dueling Excel Podcast, Episode #1369, Looks at creating Data Bars. Mike “ExcelIsFun” Girvin and Bill “MrExcel” Jelen begin by looking under the Conditional Formatting menu and using the ‘Data Bars’ feature which appeared in Excel 2007; in Excel 2010 it is a little bit further developed. But what happens if you would like to work with Data Bars in a version of Excel other than 2007 or 2010? Check out today’s Dueling Excel Podcast to learn about the =REPT Function to create a Data Bar set in an early version of Excel.

Dueling Excel Podcast #72…This episode is the video podcast companion to the book, “Slaying Excel Dragons: A Beginners Guide to Conquering Excel’s Frustrations and Making Excel Fun“, by Mike Girvin and Bill Jelen.

AND

“Excel 2010 In Depth“, by Bill Jelen a.k.a. MrExcel.

For all of your Microsoft Excel needs visit MrExcel.com – Your One Stop for Excel Tips and Solutions.

Dueling Excel - Select and Concatenate: Podcast #1364

MrExcel East — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:03:52 +0000

Today’s Dueling Excel, with Mike “ExcelIsFun” Girvin and Bill “MrExcel” Jelen looks at selecting specific entries in a row and then concatenating those entries in one cell. Episode #1364 shows the use of the =INDEX Function plus a few others to get the results.

Dueling Excel Podcast #71…This episode is the video podcast companion to the book, “Slaying Excel Dragons: A Beginners Guide to Conquering Excel’s Frustrations and Making Excel Fun“, by Mike Girvin and Bill Jelen. [Currently available as an eBook / Print Edition due soon!!]

AND

“Excel 2010 In Depth“, by Bill Jelen a.k.a. MrExcel.

For all of your Microsoft Excel needs visit MrExcel.com – Your One Stop for Excel Tips and Solutions.

Dueling Excel - Conditionally Round: Podcast #1359

MrExcel East — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 17:19:30 +0000

Another Dueling Podcast and Bill thinks he has a ‘killer solution’ for this one – lets find out! Today, in Episode #1359, Mike ‘ExcelIsFun’ Girvin and Bill ‘MrExcel’ Jelen find solutions that will Round Dollars to two (2) decimals, but Round Crude to four (4) Decimals. This Dueling Excel Podcast shows three (3) methods using IF, VLOOKUP or Conditional Formatting.

Dueling Excel Podcast #70…This episode is the video podcast companion to the book, “Slaying Excel Dragons: A Beginners Guide to Conquering Excel’s Frustrations and Making Excel Fun“, by Mike Girvin and Bill Jelen. [Currently available as an eBook / Print Edition due soon!!]

AND

“Excel 2010 In Depth“, by Bill Jelen a.k.a. MrExcel.

For all of your Microsoft Excel needs visit MrExcel.com – Your One Stop for Excel Tips and Solutions.

The Lost Episode - Was it a '68' or '78'?: Podcast #1358

MrExcel East — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:21:36 +0000

Well, as you know . . . sometimes things just don’t always go the way one plans. Today, Episode #1358 is a testimony to that. In early November of 2010, Episode #1278 should have been broadcast – but it never happened. That particular Podcast was showing the use of the LINEST Function with NFL statistics to predict who would win the next super bowl! Unfortunately, this formula worked well, but the episode was never posted…

…This episode is the video podcast companion to the book, “Slaying Excel Dragons: A Beginners Guide to Conquering Excel’s Frustrations and Making Excel Fun“, by Mike Girvin and Bill Jelen. [Currently available as an eBook / Print Edition due soon!!]

AND

“Excel 2010 In Depth“, by Bill Jelen a.k.a. MrExcel.

For all of your Microsoft Excel needs visit MrExcel.com – Your One Stop for Excel Tips and Solutions.

Dueling Excel - Count Between Dates: Podcast #1354

MrExcel East — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:15:24 +0000

In Today’s Dueling Podcast Mike ‘ExcelIsFun’ Girvin and Bill ‘MrExcel’ Jelen look at Counting The Number of Days Between Two Dates – not including Saturdays. Watch Epidsode #1354 and see how the Duel becomes a Team Effort today as Mike and Bill work with a variety of Functions – including the NETWORKDAYS.INTL() Function, new in Excel 2010! Learn a few shortcuts, get some counting done and “Learn Excel from MrExcel!”

Dueling Excel Podcast #69…This episode is the video podcast companion to the book, “Slaying Excel Dragons: A Beginners Guide to Conquering Excel’s Frustrations and Making Excel Fun“, by Mike Girvin and Bill Jelen. [Currently available as an eBook / Print Edition due soon!!]

AND

“Excel 2010 In Depth“, by Bill Jelen a.k.a. MrExcel.

For all of your Microsoft Excel needs visit MrExcel.com – Your One Stop for Excel Tips and Solutions.

Dueling Excel - Match Month: Podcast #1349

MrExcel East — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 17:08:13 +0000

In Today’s Dueling Podcast Mike ‘ExcelIsFun’ Girvin and Bill ‘MrExcel’ Jelen look at counting all of the records that fall in a certain year and month. Episode #1349 offers two formula methods to get the answers. Learn to use EOMONTH(~), LOOKUP(~), SUMPRODUCT(~) Double Negatives and more plus a few shortcuts!

Dueling Excel Podcast #68…This episode is the video podcast companion to the book, “Slaying Excel Dragons: A Beginners Guide to Conquering Excel’s Frustrations and Making Excel Fun“, by Mike Girvin and Bill Jelen. [Currently available as an eBook / Print Edition due soon!!]

AND

“Excel 2010 In Depth“, by Bill Jelen a.k.a. MrExcel.

For all of your Microsoft Excel needs visit MrExcel.com – Your One Stop for Excel Tips and Solutions.

Dueling Excel - Monogram: Podcast #1344

MrExcel East — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:36:24 +0000

The Question: “Can you extract a person’s initials from their name?” Today, in Episode #1344, Mike ‘ExcelIsFun’ Girvin and Bill ‘MrExcel’ Jelen offer two (2) methods [one using a formula and another using a VBA function] to solve this problem and answer the question.

Dueling Excel Podcast #67…This episode is sponsored by Mike Girvin’s New Book, “Slaying Excel Dragons: A Beginners Guide to Conquering Excel’s Frustrations and Making Excel Fun“, by Mike Girvin and Bill Jelen.

[ Currently available as an eBook / Print Edition due soon!! ]

For all of your Microsoft Excel needs visit MrExcel.com – Your One Stop for Excel Tips and Solutions.

Dueling Excel - Slaying Excel Dragons: Podcast #1339

MrExcel East — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 15:50:19 +0000

Today, with Dueling Podcast #1339, Mike “ExcelisFun” Girvin and Bill “MrExcel” Jelen take a look their Newly released book, “Slaying Excel Dragons: A Beginners Guide to Conquering Excel’s Frustrations and Making Excel Fun“. Included in this episode are a few ‘How-Tos’ straight from the book! Learn a few tricks in Excel and take a look at Mike & Bill’s new book!

Dueling Excel Podcast #66…This episode is the video podcast companion to the book, “Slaying Excel Dragons: A Beginners Guide to Conquering Excel’s Frustrations and Making Excel Fun“, by Mike Girvin and Bill Jelen. [Currently available as an eBook / Print Edition due soon!!]

For all of your Microsoft Excel needs visit MrExcel.com – Your One Stop for Excel Tips and Solutions.

"Slaying Excel Dragons: A Beginners Guide to Conquering Excel's Frustrations and Making Excel Fun"

MrExcel East — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 16:23:11 +0000

The wait is over!

Mike “Excel Is Fun” Girvin and Bill “MrExcel” Jelen have a new book out: “Slaying Excel Dragons: A Beginners Guide to Conquering Excel’s Frustrations and Making Excel Fun” Currently available as an Electronic [eBook] Download.

‘Slaying Excel Dragons‘ actually tells the story of what you can do with Excel from beginning to end. No bits are left out. You get the complete story of how to build a foundation of Excel skills that will enable you to accomplish any of your goals at work, home, or play. However, this book is not just for beginners. Because most Excel users have never been given the complete story of how Excel works, this book will provide an excellent foundation for beginners as well as for more advanced users… Read More

Dueling Excel - Remove Zero Records: Podcast #1332

MrExcel East — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:30:38 +0000

Today, in Episode #1332, Mike “Excel Is Fun” Girvin and Bill “MrExcel” Jelen Filter an Excel Database to clear all ‘N’ Records, retaining all other data. Using a variety of methods, see how its done and learn a keyboard shortcut or two!

Dueling Excel Podcast #64…This episode is the video podcast companion to the book, “Excel 2010 In Depth“, by Bill Jelen a.k.a. MrExcel.

AND

“Slaying Excel Dragons: A Beginners Guide to Conquering Excel’s Frustrations and Making Excel Fun“, by Mike Girvin and Bill Jelen. [Coming early 2011!!]

For all of your Microsoft Excel needs visit MrExcel.com – Your One Stop for Excel Tips and Solutions.

Dueling Excel - Three Way Lookup: Podcast #1328

MrExcel East — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:47:38 +0000

Today, in Episode #1328, Mike “Excel Is Fun” Girvin and Bill “MrExcel” Jelen look at a question posed by ‘Raymond30031′ from YouTube. Basically, arranging 2 Criteria with Multiple Ranges to give us our result, Mike and Bill use the INDEX, INDIRECT and MATCH Functions to lookup the data. Also learn keyboard shortcuts to maneuver through your spreadsheets easily!

Dueling Excel Podcast #63…This episode is the video podcast companion to the book, “Excel 2010 In Depth“, by Bill Jelen a.k.a. MrExcel.

AND

“Slaying Excel Dragons: A Beginners Guide to Conquering Excel’s Frustrations and Making Excel Fun“, by Mike Girvin and Bill Jelen. [Coming early 2011!!]

For all of your Microsoft Excel needs visit MrExcel.com – Your One Stop for Excel Tips and Solutions.

Dueling Excel-Charting Positive and Negative: Podcast #1323

MrExcel East — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:34:43 +0000

Dueling Excel Episode #1323 with Mike “Excel Is Fun” Girvin and Bill “MrExcel” Jelen looks at Charting methods on both sides of the number line in both Excel 2007 and Excel 2010. Learn Shortcuts, formulas and inherent functions in this episode!

Dueling Excel Podcast #61…This episode is the video podcast companion to the book, “Excel 2010 In Depth“, by Bill Jelen a.k.a. MrExcel.

AND

“Slaying Excel Dragons: A Beginners Guide to Conquering Excel’s Frustrations and Making Excel Fun“, by Mike Girvin and Bill Jelen. [Coming early 2011!!]

For all of your Microsoft Excel needs visit MrExcel.com – Your One Stop for Excel Tips and Solutions.

Dueling Excel - Address of a Cell: Podcast #1319

MrExcel East — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 14:59:07 +0000

Today, in Episode #1319, Mike “Excel Is Fun” Girvin and Bill “MrExcel” Jelen show us the options available to create a formula that defines the address of a cell containing a total. Using VLOOKUP, MATCH the ADDRESS Function and a few other tricks, getting that address becomes easy!

Dueling Excel Podcast #61…This episode is the video podcast companion to the book, “Excel 2010 In Depth“, by Bill Jelen a.k.a. MrExcel.

AND

“Slaying Excel Dragons: A Beginners Guide to Conquering Excel’s Frustrations and Making Excel Fun“, by Mike Girvin and Bill Jelen.

For all of your Microsoft Excel needs visit MrExcel.com – Your One Stop for Excel Tips and Solutions.

Dueling Excel - Red Over 140: Podcast #1316

MrExcel East — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 16:16:44 +0000

Saying good bye to 2010 and welcoming in 2011, Mike “Excel Is Fun” Girvin and Bill “MrExcel” Jelen present you with “Red Over 140″. In todays Dueling Excel Podcast [Episode #1316] Mike and Bill use a variety of methods to track values that exceed a predetermined threshold. Maybe you’ll also need information in cells adjacent to the exceeded value – they’ll show you how to get that too!

Dueling Excel Podcast #60…This episode is the video podcast companion to the book, “Excel 2010 In Depth“, by Bill Jelen a.k.a. MrExcel.

AND

“Slaying Excel Dragons: A Beginners Guide to Conquering Excel’s Frustrations and Making Excel Fun“, by Mike Girvin and Bill Jelen.

For all of your Microsoft Excel needs visit MrExcel.com – Your One Stop for Excel Tips and Solutions.

Dueling Excel - Sort Summary: Podcast #1313

MrExcel East — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 11:22:51 +0000

Dueling Podcast #59 deals with Sorting Summary Data – collected results of a survey. Counting the responses is easy until it becomes a matter of keeping the reults in the original order. Using Custom Lists, Defined Names and a few Keyboard Shortcuts Mike “ExcelIsFun” Girvin and Bill “MrExcel” Jelen show us how to accomplish the task with Episode #1313.

…This episode is the video podcast companion to the book, “Excel 2010 In Depth“, by Bill Jelen a.k.a. MrExcel.

“Slaying Excel Dragons: A Beginners Guide to Conquering Excel’s Frustrations and Making Excel Fun“, by Mike Girvin and Bill Jelen.

For all of your Microsoft Excel needs visit MrExcel.com – Your One Stop for Excel Tips and Solutions.

Dueling Excel - "Copy Down for Across": Podcast #1298

MrExcel East — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 15:38:44 +0000

Dueling Podcast Number 56. Today, in Episode #1298, Bill “MrExcel” Jelen and Mike “Excel Is Fun” Girvin set out to create a ‘median’ of test scores. Using the ‘MEDIAN’, ‘OFFSET’, ‘INDEX’ and ‘MATCH’ Functions, Bill and Mike accomplish the task by simply working in the Formula Bar. Also, learn the F9 to ‘Evaluate a Formula’ feature! Episode #1298 shows us how…

…This episode is the video podcast companion to the book, “Excel 2010 In Depth“, by Bill Jelen a.k.a. MrExcel.

“Slaying Excel Dragons: A Beginners Guide to Conquering Excel’s Frustrations and Making Excel Fun“, by Mike Girvin and Bill Jelen.

For all of your Microsoft Excel needs visit MrExcel.com – Your One Stop for Excel Tips and Solutions.

Dueling Excel - Approximate Multi-Lookup: Podcast #1283

MrExcel East — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 15:58:28 +0000

In today’s Dueling Excel Podcast [Episode #1283] Mike “ExcelIsFun” Girvin and Bill “MrExcel” Jelen look at a data set and then attempt to find all of the records that contain the word “Car”. Using Excel VBA [Macro] and Formula methods, Mike and Bill produce the desired results – see how they do it in Episode #1283!

…This episode is the video podcast companion to the book, “Excel 2010 In Depth“, by Bill Jelen a.k.a. MrExcel.

AND

“Slaying Excel Dragons: A Beginners Guide to Conquering Excel’s Frustrations and Making Excel Fun“, by Mike Girvin and Bill Jelen.

For all of your Microsoft Excel needs visit MrExcel.com – Your One Stop for Excel Tips and Solutions.