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OEE Solution – Querying Various Sheets
In this post we will pull together formulas that we’ve seen in these posts Formula to get first, second and third highest values Formula to get last row number http://blog.thejaytray.com/excels-indirect-function/ Data Validation Lists COUNTIF Function Before continuing, if you are not familiar with the above posts or functions I would recommend reading them. Although I […]
Continue readingPareto Chart In Excel
Although there are Excel add-ons and more recent versions of Excel make it easier, for a lot of people Pareto charts are still awkward to put together. A pareto chart is a type of chart that contains both bars and a line graph. The bars show the individual order of items in descending order and […]
Continue readingFormula to get first second and third highest values
In this post I will show you how to look up the first, second, third and so on values. This formula can also be used to create Pareto charts which I will also go through in the next post. In previous posts I touched on the idea of having a file that could quickly query […]
Continue readingExcel Option Buttons
It’s been a while since I posted about Excel macros, so I think it’s time I touched on this subject again. In this post we will add Option Buttons to a sheet and have that sheet change based on the selected option. With Option Buttons, only one option can be selected at a time. If […]
Continue readingExcels INDIRECT Function
The INDIRECT “function returns the reference specified by a text string”. What does this mean and why would I use it? I have seen people have problems with amending formula to reference different sheets in particular, most of them just recreate the formula rather than trying to amend it. One of the ways around this […]
Continue readingSpeedomoter For Excel Dashboard
Help creating the speedometer chart for displaying information is becoming a more common request I receive. As the information available to us increases, so too does the reporting requirements. Dashboards are becoming increasingly common and while there is a lot of great software out there for displaying information in a dashboard format, there is no […]
Continue readingAdvanced Filter in Excel
I have seen a lot of people using the AutoFilter (Filter) in Excel with ease, but I’ve been surprised to see that not many people use the Advanced Filter in Excel which, when dealing with lots of information or applying several filters, can save time and effort. In this post I will quickly go over […]
Continue readingAnimate In Excel 2
In the last post I showed you a macro that would animate in Excel. In this post I will show you another way I animate in Excel. It is a bit less technical than the last and uses the RANDBETWEEN function to change a chart and conditional formatting to change some colors. This is a […]
Continue readingVLookUp To Retrieve data relating to the second or third match
If you have ever used VLookUps before you may have noticed that the formula only retrieves data relating to the first match it finds. Did you ever need a VLookUp to retrieve data relating to the second or third match? In an earlier post called VLookUp with multiple values and I showed you how to retrieve […]
Continue readingSimplify IF AND OR eBook
My second eBook is almost ready! It is now being reviewed and will be available soon to all subscribers. This time around we look at IF AND OR functions – these are areas where I am frequently being asked for help to clarify.
Continue readingEXCEL SUBSTITUTE FUNCTION
I have been coming across more and more cases where people have problems with lookup formulas because databases do not have matching information. The most common type of incident I come across are where one database contains a name like “Adam O’Reilly” and another database has the name as “Adam OReilly”, with no apostrophe. So […]
Continue readingBrackets And Commas in Excel
I am regularly asked for help with Excel files where people don’t understand some of the formulas used. In some cases the person is just not familiar with the formulas but there are often times when the person understands the individual formulas but can’t understand what they see onscreen because several formulas are used together. […]
Continue readingWingdings
I receive a lot of requests for help with setting up files/charts (most often in Excel). Occasionally I think people try to challenge me on purpose by setting certain restrictions. In one case, I was given a table of weekly numbers and asked to visually highlight if one week was higher or lower than the […]
Continue readingNavigating Tabs Shortcut
This tip is aimed at those of you who use keyboard shortcuts, or are interested in trying them out. A lot of people may already be familiar with using the Ctrl key and a lettered key for shortcuts (Ctrl+B for Bold, Ctrl+I for Italics, etc.), another really useful Ctrl shortcut is Ctrl+PgUp/PgDn. Combining the Ctrl […]
Continue readingContext Menu Shortcut
This tip is aimed at people who already use keyboard shortcuts or are looking to try them out. You may already have noticed that when you use the right-click button on your mouse you get a different menu on screen depending on what you are clicking on. This is a context menu, if you right-click […]
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