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Excel.Tips.Net: Using Dynamic Chart Titles
By Allen Wyatt for Excel.Tips.Net Using Dynamic Chart Titles There is a very cool way, apparently not well known, of adding ‘active’ or ‘live’ titles and other text to charts. In this way you can make...
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Excel.Tips.Net: How Excel Interprets Percentages
By Allen Wyatt for Excel.Tips.Net Controlling How Excel Interprets Percentages When you format a cell to display percentages, Excel assumes that whatever you enter into that cell in the future will be...
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Excel.Tips.Net: Smoothing Out Data Series
By Allen Wyatt for Excel.Tips.Net Smoothing Out Data Series When you create line charts in Excel, the lines drawn between data points tend to be very straight. (This makes sense; the lines are meant...
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Excel.Tips.Net: Incomplete and Corrupt Excel Sorting
By Allen Wyatt for Excel.Tips.Net Incomplete and Corrupt Excel Sorting The sorting capabilities of Excel are quite handy, and quite powerful. The different ways you sort information has been covered...
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Excel.Tips.Net: Single-Use Drop-Down List
By Allen Wyatt for Excel.Tips.Net Single-Use Drop-Down Lists in Excel One of the really cool uses for the data validation feature in Excel is the ability to create a single-use drop-down list. This...
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Excel.Tips.Net: How to Create CSV Files
By Allen Wyatt for Excel.Tips.Net How to Create CSV Files CSV is one of those over-abundant computer acronyms. It means “comma-separated values.” It refers to a type of file that is often used for...
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Excel.Tips.Net: Limiting Choices in an Excel Cell
By Allen Wyatt for Excel.Tips.Net Limiting Choices in an Excel Cell When you are developing worksheets that will be used by others, you may want to limit what your users can enter into a particular...
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Printing Multiple Excel Pages On a Piece of Paper
By Allen Wyatt for Excel.Tips.Net Printing Multiple Excel Pages On a Piece of Paper You may want to print multiple pages of your Excel worksheet on a single piece of paper. You can accomplish this by...
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Understanding Excel Macros
By Allen Wyatt for Excel.Tips.Net Understanding Excel Macros A macro is similar to a computer program. It consists of a series of instructions that the computer follows in a sequence you specify. The...
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Shorten ZIP Codes in Excel
By Allen Wyatt for Excel.Tips.Net Shorten ZIP Codes in Excel In the United States, ZIP Codes come in two formats: five-digit and nine-digit. (Actually, the five-digit ZIP Code is a subset of the...
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Using Graphics to Represent Excel Data Series
By Allen Wyatt for Excel.Tips.Net Using Graphics to Represent Excel Data Series Excel is great at creating all sorts of charts from your data. You can even customize the charts to your heart’s...
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Setting Excel Spell-Checking Options
By Allen Wyatt for Excel.Tips.Net Setting Excel Spell-Checking Options Word includes a spelling checker that you can use to proof the text in your worksheets. There are a few options that you can set...
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Editing Custom Spelling Dictionaries in Excel
By Allen Wyatt for Excel.Tips.Net Editing Custom Spelling Dictionaries in Excel As you use the spell-checking capabilities of Excel, you undoubtedly have added words to your custom dictionary....
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Displaying Images based on a Result in Excel
By Allen Wyatt for Excel.Tips.Net Displaying Images based on a Result in Excel Dave has a large database that he keeps in an Excel workbook. It consists of material samples, and he uses the VLOOKUP...
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Sharing Your Excel Workbook
By Allen Wyatt for Excel.Tips.Net Sharing Your Excel Workbook Excel allows multiple people to access a workbook at the same time, if desired. This can be very handy when a workbook is in active use or...
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Jumping to the Real Last Microsoft Excel Cell
By Allen Wyatt for Excel.Tips.Net Jumping to the Real Last Microsoft Excel Cell Diane wrote about a problem she was having with a file imported into Excel. The file, created by a non-Excel program,...
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Setting Orientation of Excel Cell Values
By Allen Wyatt for Excel.Tips.Net Setting Orientation of Excel Cell Values Excel allows you to easily adjust how you want information to appear within a cell. The Alignment tab within the Format Cells...
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How to Fit an Excel Printout on a Page
By Allen Wyatt for Excel.Tips.Net How to Fit an Excel Printout on a Page I can’t tell you how many times I have gone to print a worksheet, only to have the very last column or the very last row spill...
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Speed Up Large Excel Worksheets
By Allen Wyatt for Excel.Tips.Net Speed Up Large Excel Worksheets Excel users are always looking for ways to speed up large worksheets. If you are using a large worksheet that has lots of static...
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Setting Excel Row Height
By Allen Wyatt for Excel.Tips.Net Setting Excel Row Height Excel normally sets the height of rows within your worksheet to reflect the size of the largest font used on the row. You can, however,...
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