1016 Redux – 1026 – Learn Excel from MrExcel Podcast
Mario sends in an UGLY solution to episode 1016. Episode 1026 will show you how to highlight one segment of a line chart in Excel 2003. This episode wins an award for the ugliest workaround.
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Shawn sends in today’s question. The spreadsheet has billing data to audit. For each record, there is a location, a start date, and an end date. Shawn wants to find any records where the same date and location is double-billed. A quick two-loop macro solves this problem. Episode 1017 shows you how.
In a recent charting challenge, Jerome Sullivan sent in an interesting chart where the budget and actual numbers were actually plotted on top of each other. Episode 444 shows the non-intuitive steps required to create this type of chart.
In our continuing look at importing text files, todays netcast discussed how to import fixed width files into Excel. Watch to learn why choosing the text column type will cause your formulas to never work. Episode 458 provides the details.
Question from YouTube is how to average all the non-zero values in a range. In Episode 1030, Bill and Mike show several methods for solving the problem.
Glenn has a series of line charts showing monthly data for 2009. Most charts work fine, but the total chart shows the line dropping to zero for future months. Episode 1004 shows how to solve this problem, then how to solve the problem from the solution to the original problem!
How much ice cream will Sally sell on any given day? Todays Episode 624 tries to figure out a relationship between temperature, rain and ice cream sales.
Figure out the number of billable days between two dates. Episode 1018 looks at ways to count the number of days, number of workdays, or number of Monday-Wednesday-Friday dates between two dates.
Dave wants to know how to choose a random name, but he does not want the complete list of names in the cells in the worksheet! Episode 1020 shows you how.
You can solve the MWF problem from episode 1018 using an incredible array formula from the book Excel Gurus Gone Wild. Episode 1019 takes a look at how to coerce an array of dates from a start date and end date cell.
