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Jeff Lenning
I am excited to announce this year’s Excel University scholarship winner! This scholarship is supported by the Excel University Alumni Association, so thanks to all of you who have helped make these awards possible over the past 7 years. The winner will receive a cash award plus an Excel University training pass. This year’s recipient…
Microsoft recently announced the ability to import data from a picture in Excel for Windows … yay! Let’s say you have an image that contains text or numbers. Perhaps the image is a file (like PNG, GIF or JPG). Or, perhaps you copied it to the clipboard or took a picture with your phone. You’d…
Microsoft recently introduced 14 new functions for Excel—they are sure to help you save some time. We’ll start with a short description of each and then jump into some demonstrations. To view the demonstrations and learn more about each function, check out the Full Article Published in CalCPA Magazine.
Historically, we’ve had two basic ways to create reports in Excel. We could enter the report labels and use formulas to compute the report values or we could use a PivotTable. Both options had pros and cons. We’d have to pick the report type based on the context of our workbook. In this post, I’ll…
Let’s say you have a hyperlink in a cell in Excel. The hyperlink may have friendly text, such as Click Here, but when you click the link it takes you to a URL such as https://www.excel-university.com. Now, let’s say you want to extract that URL from the hyperlink using an Excel formula. Well … to…
My friend John Michaloudis does an annual survey of Excel MVPs and experts and asks for their best tip. He compiles the tips into an audio podcast along with show notes and related links. This is a great resource and I love sharing it every year. This year, he rounded up tips from: You’ll definitely…
Microsoft just announced an enhancement in Excel desktop that enables autocomplete for data validation dropdown lists … YES! I have been waiting for this capability for literally decades … and it is finally here 🙂 Note: this feature is available in both Excel online and desktop. However, at the time of this writing, it is…
In this post, we’ll create a list of months with a single Excel formula. To make it more interesting, we’ll allow the user to enter the desired number of months to display and create additional formulas to show the last day of each month, the number of days in the each month, the month number,…
In this post, we’ll see how to create an Excel calendar with a single formula. Specifically, we will write a formula that displays the days of any month in a graphical calendar format. Our graphical calendar displays the days of the specified month in 7 columns (Sunday through Saturday) and includes a row for each…
This is the third and final post in the PivotTable Text Values Alternative series, where we are discussing alternatives to displaying text values in PivotTables. In the first post, we used Power Query as an alternative. In the second post, we combined multiple text values. In this post, we’ll use the FILTER function as an…