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Selecting Next Cells In A Different Order
If you have ever used Excel, you probably know already that you can move from your current cell to the one to the right, or below by using the tab or return keys. So what if you want to select the next cell, but the next cell is not in the normal order? For example, […]
Continue readingLayout With Columns
Improving your layout with columns is easy to do. Whether you want to set a layout with 3 columns, or a 3 column layout, it’s simply and gives very different results. I say 3 columns, but this could be 2, 4, 5 whatever you want (the more columns you have, the less impressive the page […]
Continue readingHTML5 CSS LAYOUT
So, you can display text and images on screen, you can insert numbered lists and bullet point lists, you can change elements of the page, but you’re probably not feeling as warm and fuzzy about your website as you feel. Let’s look at HTML5 CSS Layout now, “div” in particular and then hopefully you will […]
Continue readingCSS Selectors
CSS Selectors allow us to target and style specific elements of our webpage. In the last post, we applied borders and fonts to different headers in our page. The different level headers (h1, h2, h3) are different elements of the page. In the CSS file, we use CSS selectors to select and style those […]
Continue readingCSS Border
Improve the look of your website with borders. They are easy to create and useful for separating sections of your page and improving the look of the site. CSS borders should not be mistaken for tables. Tables contain rows, columns, cells and may or may not have borders. A CSS border on the otherhand, is […]
Continue readingCSS Basics
To improve the look and layout of webpages, CSS is often used alongside HTML. CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) can dramatically improve the look of your page with just a few small changes. If you’re following the HTML series of posts below you will have created 3 relatively bare looking pages. HTML Basics HTML Lists HTML […]
Continue readingBasics of HTML Links
If you’re following the series of posts, you will have created two basic html web pages so far, one called “index” and one called “music”. If you haven’t been following the posts, you can read them from here if you want… Basic HTML Page Basic Lists You do not need to follow these posts, if […]
Continue readingMultiplication Table Challenge Solution
The Challenge In the last blog post I set a challenge for you. Create a table similar to the one below, in cell B2, create a formula that can be copied to all other cells in the table. The result of this will be a multiplication table. The Solution The solution in theory is […]
Continue readingMultiplication Table Challenge
Feeling up to a challenge? Here is a challenge for you to complete in Excel. Can you come up with a formula in cell B2 below that can be copied down and across the rest of the table below? From cell B1 across to K1, list the numbers 1 to 10 From cell A2 down […]
Continue readingComing Soon – eBooks
Coming Soon – Our First eBook Our first eBook will be available for download soon. To start us in this new area, it will be free to all subscribers. This book will be based on some of the more useful Date & Time functions in Excel. If you’re not already a subscriber, you may sign […]
Continue reading3D Sum
In Excel, a 3D Reference refers to the same cell or range in multiple worksheets. The 3D Sum allows you to sum the same cells in multiple worksheets. To demonstrate this, we have 4 worksheets and in Cell B1 of each sheet, there is a sales value that we want to get the total of. […]
Continue readingUPPER, lower & Proper in Excel
In an earlier post I discussed using len, left and right and mid. Now I will look at more functions that fall under “Text” in Excel – upper, lower and proper. These 3 functions allow you to change the case of text in your files. I usually use these functions on files that have been […]
Continue readingSort Left To Right In Excel
If you’ve covered even the basics of Excel, there is a good chance that at some point you have sorted at least 1 column of data in ascending or descending order. Sorting up and down is well covered in classes, books, tutorials and with a big button in Excel ribbons that says “Sort”, but […]
Continue readingOffice Design Tip
I’m often asked for help with, or to recommend a good (cheap) program for designing certain shapes like banners etc. There are many good ways to do this out there, feel free to look into some yourself, this is what I usually tell people, but I also give them an Office design tip. A […]
Continue readingHow To Add Macros To Custom Toolbar
Having trained a variety people and helped others with macros, especially in Excel, I have noticed a common issue – assigning keyboard shortcuts to the most regularly used macros. Ctrl along with most of the letters are already assigned as shortcuts, by assigning for example Ctrl and B to your macro, this overwrites the […]
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