How-to Find a Wild Card or Question Mark or Asterisk or Tilde in Excel

Lots of users use Excel for lists or you may receive reports from other people or systems and sometimes those files contain Wild Cards or Tilde's.  If you are trying to Find or Find...
Final Pivot Table Data Format

How-to Convert an Existing Excel Data Set to a Pivot Table Format

In previous posts, I have espoused the virtues of the Pivot Tables in Excel and that you should always think in terms of a database programmer when you create your data layouts.  If you...

How-to Fix Security Links Warnings in an Excel Spreadsheet

If you have the yellow bar show up at the top of your Excel Spreadsheet "! Security Warning - Automatic update of links has been disabled 'Enable Content'" But you don't know why you have...

How-to Make an Excel Stacked Column Pivot Chart with a Secondary Axis

In this previous post: Stopping Excel Pivot Chart Columns from Overlapping When Moving Data Series to the Second Axis I had a fan question - How can you do this same type of Pivot Chart but...
Stacked Column Chart with 2 Axes

How-to Setup Your Excel Data for a Stacked Column Chart with a Secondary Axis

Many users have mixed reactions about this secondary axis overlap fix.  You can see the post here: Stop Excel From Overlapping the Columns When Moving a Data Series to the Second Axis Some think it is...

How-to Add a Hard Return to an Excel Concatenate Formula

Like most Excel users, one of the first formulas that you ever learned to master was the Concatenate Function. But how do you add other controls like a Hard Return or a Tab to your...

How-to Group and Categorize Excel Chart Legend Entries

If you have a chart with Legends, then you should check out this tutorial. Recently when working on a solution for a fan, I noticed that it was not clear on my Stacked Column Chart...
Unprotect Worksheet Buttons

How-to Unprotect an Excel Worksheet If You Forgot the Passcode

Several years ago, I created an Excel workbook and I "Protected" a worksheet, but, I forgot the passcode the next day.  Try and try, I couldn't remember the password.  Therefore, I could never update...
Clustered Stacked Column Chart by Month Year

Friday Challenge Answers: Year over Year Chart Comparisons

Thanks for the submissions for the Friday Challenge. You can get the sample data and chart request here:  friday-challenge-help-new-to-excel-yoy-comparisons   Here are some other submissions: A) In the comments on the Challenge Post, Miguel described a Dot Plot...
Excel Scroll Bar Control

How-To Make a Dynamic Excel Scroll Bar Chart Part 2

Wow, it has been over 2 years.  I am so sorry if you have been waiting all this time.  Probably not, but I will finish what I started with Part 2 of How-To Make a...