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Data Validation

Custom Conditional Formatting Rules

By Jeff Lenning | July 11, 2013 |

Today, we will look at using conditional formatting with formulas, data validation, and comparison formulas.  Think you are up for it?  Let’s do this thing. Let’s say we have a worksheet that computes the payment of a loan.  We can use the PMT function to easily accomplish this task.  The PMT function requires three arguments…

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Go To Special Places in Excel

By Jeff Lenning | April 25, 2013 |

Have you ever called up the Go To dialog in Excel? There is a little button in it that enables you to go to special places in Excel. This post explores some of these special destinations. For starters, let’s call up the Go To dialog within an empty workbook. There are a few different ways…

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Data Validation Alert Styles

By Jeff Lenning | April 18, 2013 |

The Data Validation feature allows you to control what a user can type into a cell. This post digs into the details of the data validation alert style options. Data Validation Primer First, a quick overview of the Data Validation feature. Data Validation has been in Excel for a long time, and it is one of…

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