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CSS 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 […]
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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 readingCreate A Planner In Excel
It’s that time of year again when I start receiving requests for help with creating planners for the new year. These planners are usually for teams or groups to organise holiday schedules and rosters. This year I created a reusable planner that can be used in future years and also includes most of the features […]
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 […]
Continue readingA Quicker Way To Create VLookUps Across Multiple Columns
Recently I have been asked by a few people for a quicker way to create VLookUps across multiple columns. In each case the user wanted a VLookUp to pull in several columns of data, but did not want to have to create a VLookUp for each column (one case would have been over 20 columns […]
Continue readingUsing Charts To Help You With Problem Solving
It is well known and well publicized that graphs and charts can be used to demonstrate and present data visually to an audience. The visual of the data can highlight points of data quicker and easier than just numbers in a table. One thing that I have noticed over the years is that when talking […]
Continue readingThe 5 Whys in Root Cause Analysis
The “5 Whys” is a question-asking technique used to determine the root cause of a problem by repeatedly asking the question “why” until the root cause has been identified. The question isn’t asked just 5 times, if you get the root cause after 4 whys you stop, if after 5 whys you don’t have the […]
Continue readingAdd Video To PowerPoint
Would you like to add video to PowerPoint presentations? Videos and other media can add to your presentations, enhance slides and for longer presentations they can give you a break from talking and give your audience a break from listening to you (no offence intended). So how do you add video? A common technique I […]
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