In a recent Friday Challenge, I asked our readers to transform an varying text string into dates and values to determine averages.  Well although I was able to compete the challenge, that wasn’t...

The Problem Recently a fan contacted me and asked how she change the horizontal axis could do the as follows: “I am trying to bold 5 months (out of 22) listed in my X Axis. I am working with a...

In the latest Friday Challenge, you were tasked with creating a Data Transformation Formula for the data listed on this page: Friday Challenge Data Transformation Now it is a tricky challenge because...

This weekend starts the ModelOff competition. “ModelOff is the world’s largest professional competition for Microsoft Excel, Financial Analysis, Investment Analysis and Financial...

In this post, I will show you another Excel summation technique that you can use to evaluate criteria and then sum the data based on that criteria.  Three posts ago, you received a challenge of...

In this post, I will show you 2 other techniques that you can use to evaluate criteria and then create a sum of data based on that criteria in Excel.  Two posts ago, we showed presented with a...

There are many ways to Sum data in Excel.  But when you have lots and lots of data, then you will want to learn a few different techniques.  In our last post, you were presented with a challenge of...

  This is a fun skills challenge to make sure you are well rounded.  What is the SUM of your Excel Game?  You will find out today.   The Data For today’s challenge, we will see if you...

Part of my time this week was spent working on a project for a client and I was sooo frustrated.  I just couldn’t get my SUMIFS formula to work. Have you ever had that issue with an Excel...

On Friday, I posted this challenge: Friday Challenge – Find Unique List in Excel You can download the sample data set here:  Challenge Sample Data Check out the post and download / try it...

It is time for another Friday Challenge.  This is based on actual scenario from a recent project. A user had a large list of values in over 220 columns and over 5800 rows.  All in all, there were over...

Recently, a healthcare company employee contacted me about a chart he wanted to create.  The company that he works for is trying to save trees by reducing their usage of paper in copiers an...