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Danny May 21, 2010 Leave a Comment

How to Take Advantage of Excel 2007 Tables

One of the major improvements in Excel 2007 is working with Tables. In this lesson I demonstrate Five Benefits for Working with Excel 2007 Tables:

Automatically expand in size to add Columns (Fields) and Rows (Records)
Use Natural Language Formulas – Copied down the column automatically!
Total Rows Tool – great for seeing the results in filtered lists
Easy to use Filters for Dates (Last Week, Next Quarter, etc.), Text and Numbers (Above Average, Top 10, etc.)
Improved Formatting – Use Live Preview to see what style options look like before you select them

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Danny May 20, 2010 1 Comment

Changing Pivot Table Summaries in Excel 2007

In this Excel Video Lesson I demonstrate how to show an additional Pivot Table Summary, “Percentage of Total,” alongside a traditional ( Sum of Amount) subtotal. It is easy to do – if you know where to look. In the Field Settings Dialog Box for your Pivot Table, click on the “Show Values As” tab and then select the option that you want from the drop-down listing. In this lesson I use “% of Column.”

Watch me demonstrate how to do this.

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How to Compare Two Excel Lists for Differences

Lists, lists, lists … It sometime seems that I am swimming in a sea of lists. Lists of customers, updated lists of customers, sales by week, sales for the current week, book lists, revised lists of books, etc. Lists seem to beget more lists and both beget problems – How to compare pairs of lists to avoid duplicates and redundancies!

If you can relate to this scenario, I know that you will enjoy this Excel Video Lesson.

Three Techniques Used in My Tutorial

1) Use the =MATCH() Function

2) Use the =VLOOKUP() Function

3) Use a Pivot Table in Excel 2007

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I Have Updated My Index of Excel Video Lessons

As part of the process of reorganizing my website, I have updated my “Index of Excel Video Lessons” page. The content of this page will be updated as I add each new Excel Video Training Lesson. So, I suggest that you click here to go to the Video Index and then save the page as one of your “Favorites” if you want to learn how to really get the most out of Excel or to find a quick answer when you are using Excel.

On the Index Page you can see an organized listing of my Excel Videos by Category – e.g. Formulas, Formatting, Pivot Tables “What-if” Analysis, etc. Each lesson is “hyperlinked” so that you can just click on the topic to go directly to the lesson that you are interested in.

I indicate in the title if the lesson is specific to Excel 2007. All my new Excel video lessons are created using Excel 2007.

If there is a topic that you would like me to cover, send me an e-mail message – danny@thecompanyrocks.com

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Danny May 14, 2010 2 Comments

How to Combine Changes Made to Multiple Excel Workbooks

Review Changes Commands

Frequently, several people work on an Excel 2007 Workbook. Perhaps to create departmental budgets or to analyze regional sales results. When it is time to combine the work of these individuals into the Master Excel Workbook you do not want to resort to “copy & paste!” Fortunately, you do not have to. Use Excel 2007’s Compare and Merge Tool to do this for us.

However, in order to make this work there are several “gotcha steps” to be aware of. Watch this video lesson to see how to combine the individual work of three colleagues into a “merged workbook” for an upcoming event. I guarantee that this lesson will save you time and aggravation at “budget time” each year.

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Danny May 13, 2010 2 Comments

View Excel Worksheets Side by Side

This is another Excel 2007 Video Lesson that I created in response to a view’s request for help. Excel 2007 makes it quite easy to view two worksheets “side by side,” but there are a couple of “got’cha steps” to be aware of in order to make this work for you.

First, I want to clarify the difference between three similar words that I use in this lesson – “Windows, Workbooks, Worksheets.” We will be opening up multiple Windows in order to compare multiple Worksheets which can be part of one or more Workbooks. “Windows, Workbooks, Worksheets” – Oh My!

It is easier to show you the difference, so let’s view this lesson.

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How to Use Excel’s Transpose and Text to Columns Tools to Reorganize Your Data

This video lesson is in response to a viewer’s request. The information that he gets comes from a mainframe computer and the orientation of the data is horizontal (going left-to-right across columns. He wants to be able to reorganize this data to show it vertically (from top-to-bottom in rows. I use Excel’s Transpose tool to show him how to do this.

I also demonstrate an extremely useful Excel Tool – Text to Columns – to break apart an address block (City, State, Postal Code) into discrete fields – to help you to manage a mail merge or to sort and filter by State or by Postal Code.

(Note: Somehow this lesson “got lost” as I was reorganizing my website. So, I apologize in advance if you already viewed this lesson.)

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Get External Data in Excel 2007

I created this Excel Video Lesson in response to a viewer request. He wants to learn how to move files that contain dates, text and numbers from a different program into Excel. Excel 2007 gives you an easy to follow Wizard from the Data Tab of the Ribbon to Get External Data.

As I stress in this lesson – “Resist, resist, resist … the urge to go to the Office Button (File Menu) and choose Open. No, no , no… Use the Get External Data Wizard. Watch this short lesson to see how to bring information in from Word 2007 and from Access 2007. I also show you how to save an Excel 2007 file as a Text File (.txt) to make it easy to open it in almost any program.

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Archives for May 2010

How to Take Advantage of Excel 2007 Tables