How-To Copy an Excel Chart on Same Worksheet with a New Data Reference
Many users in Excel spend time creating an awesome chart on a specific data set, then they want to use that chart on another data set. Perhaps it was for the month of April...
How-to AverageIF Excluding Zeros Across Excel Worksheet Tabs
I didn't receive any sample formulas from Friday's post that included a Friday Challenge, so maybe I stumped everyone when asking you to create an AverageIF Formula Excluding Zeros Across Worksheet Tabs.
Here is the...
How-to Easily Sum Across Excel Worksheet Tabs (Plus Friday Challenge)
Sum Excel Worksheets Technique
Why haven't I known about this simple Excel technique before now?
Maybe you were aware how you can easily Sum Excel Worksheets but I never seen this in all my years of...
A Better Format For Excel Chart Secondary Axis Columns Overlap with 3 Series
Learn a better charting format when your Excel Chart Secondary Axis Columns Overlap with 3 data series.
The Problem
I didn’t love the last chart we created that solved the problem that Whitney was having, however,...
Stop Excel Overlapping Columns on Second Axis for 3 Series
We have learned how to Stop Excel Overlapping Columns in a few posts on the site. A reader had a follow-up question that I thought I would answer here. Here is the question:
“This is...
Why is Excel Overlapping Columns When I Move them to the Secondary Axis?
Why is Excel Overlapping Columns in this chart? Why EXCEL, WHY are you doing this??? I don’t understand. Have you ever asked yourself this question when Excel overlaps the columns you just moved a...
Calculating Hours Difference of Time in Excel Spreadsheets
When working with Time in Microsoft Excel you may have noticed that there is a problem when you subtract certain numbers. Excel gives you an error, but it doesn't look like an error. Excel...
Data Transformation – Excel Array Solution
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 good...
How-to Highlight Specific Horizontal Axis Labels in Excel Line Charts
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...
Friday Challenge – Data Transformation Solution
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 the data is...