Feb 8, 2017 | Excel, Miscellaneous Excel Tips, Worksheet Design
I just finished updating my Excel Dashboards course, Drive Your Dashboard with Excel, and thought I would share an excerpt. Dashboard Design Creating a dashboard is NOT the same things as creating an Excel spreadsheet. By this, I mean that people tend to open an...Jan 31, 2017 | Leasing
Hey, I had a question and was hoping that someone could answer it for me. I have someone looking for a low-cost system to to calculate lease assets and liabilities and related accounting under the new lease standard. Any recommendations are appreciated....Dec 2, 2016 | Excel, Formatting
MACRO TIP FOR FIXED DECIMAL I have a Fixed Decimal Place tip, in my Must Know Excel Tips Tricks and Tools for the CPA Ebook. Eric Robinson read my tip and sent me his own tip on fixed decimal places. If you are unfamiliar with the Fixed Decimal feature in Excel, it...Oct 5, 2016 | Date functions, Functions
Excel has a number of date functions. Unfortunately, they don’t all work if Excel treats the date as text. When working with downloaded data, sometimes the date must be converted from text to a format recognized by Excel. One method is to use the...Oct 5, 2016 | Charts
CREATING A CHART QUICKLY There are a couple of ways to create a chart. We are going to discuss the two quickest methods. This is an excerpt from our course “Creating Effective Charts in Excel”. Often you just want a quick and dirty chart –one that...Aug 29, 2016 | Internet Topics
Google Search Tips Many of us search on Google every day for research and/or fun. There are certain embedded features in Google that can make your search more specific and help return more items that are of interest to you. With the ability to use more specific...Aug 18, 2016 | Functions, Text Functions
LEN Function – Counting Characters in a Cell LEN() is one of those functions that you wonder about. LEN is a text function and depending upon what you are doing it is so useful. It counts the number of characters in a cell. I use it all the time if I want to...Jun 16, 2016 | Charts, Excel, Miscellaneous Excel Tips
X Axis Units- Excel Charts I thought I would share this problem I ran into charting so that you don’t start banging your head against the wall as I considered doing. I have used this same data in a many different versions of Excel and never had a problem until...May 31, 2016 | Functions, Misc Functions, Pivot Tables
I am in the process of updating my Pivot Table course and decided that I take another look at the GetPivotData function. GET PIVOT DATA is an Excel function that pulls data from your pivot table. I personally don’t use it because if you hide a field you referenced...May 20, 2016 | Functions, Misc Functions
The AGGREGATE Function The AGGREGATE function is a very powerful function for summarizing an array of data. It combines 19 different ways to summarize data into one function! While it is a powerful function, my favorite reason for using AGGREGATE is its ability to SUM...